The hard wing of the PRO aligns itself with Victoria Villarruel’s discourse

Lined up behind the presidential candidacy of Javier Milei for next Sunday’s runoff, the hard wing of the PRO hardens its discourse and also approaches the libertarian’s running mate, Victoria Villarruel, who in the last hours was involved in another controversy over human rights. A property like ESMA, which has 17 hectares, could be enjoyed by all the Argentine people. Those facilities, at the time, were intended to house schools and that is what we need most,” the vice president candidate said on Monday in TN. His statements were repudiated by the head of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto. In the PRO sector that gave its support to Milei – and caused a schism in Together for Change – they tried to justify their statements.” I can’t explain what Milei or Villarruel say. Perhaps, the idea is that such an important place for memory would be much better than being enjoyed by many more Argentines. Many public buildings end up being held by militants. It would be good for the memory to be for all Argentines and not for those who are a part of the memory,” said Federico Angelini, former head of the PRO and current vice-president of the PRO, in an interview on Radio Con Vos. The national deputy added that the area where the Navy Mechanics School is located – declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO – “is very beautiful from the point of view of the place where it is and maybe it can be much broader for society, I don’t think it’s so bad.” Villarruel confirmed that LLA wants to reopen the discussion on the Law on Voluntary Interruption of PregnancyIn his statements, the legislator also referred to the position of the president of the Center for Legal Studies on Terrorism and its Victims (Celtyv) regarding the figure of 30,000 disappeared, which she repeatedly denied. (Victoria) has always had a lot of legal alignment on each of the positions she has said. On the issue of the number of disappeared, she says ‘there is a concrete fact’, which is that there are about 9,000 people who are recognized as missing,” he said. “And then there is a symbolic number, and I say this, which I respect very much, which is 30,000,” he clarified. However, he confirmed: “CONADEP recognizes that there are about 9,000 missing persons, and there are about 9,000 documented missing persons.” However, he rejected that Milei represents a risk to democracy, as his detractors argue. “It is undemocratic to extort justice as Sergio Massa does and as Kirchnerism does. I don’t see those intentions in Milei. But he is wrong when he talks about Alfonsin, who was a bad president from an economic point of view but who defended democracy and for whom we have to thank him very much,” he retorted. The focus on oversight and internal oversight in Together for ChangeOne of the central points of the support that Mauricio Macri and Patricia Bullrich gave to Milei lies in oversight. In the opposition space, they aim to have some 130,000 prosecutors and ratify without hesitation their support for the economist. There, the internal conflict that marked the opposition coalition throughout the campaign towards the August elections intensifies.” We would have liked to represent (the alternative of change), but the Argentines, in these discussions that we have had in JxC, saw it before and said ‘they do not represent change because there are leaders who have more continuity of a model of Kirchnerism than a change’, and they supported Milei,” Angelini analyzed, in a clear message aimed at the most open-minded sector of the opposition coalition. which is referred to in the head of government Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. Along these lines, he marked differences between the two options that will dispute the presidency this Sunday. It is clear that on one side are [Sergio] Massa, Cristina [Kirchner], Wado [de Pedro], a justice that is going to be pressured by the Kirchnerist model, which has fixed impunity for Cristina, I have no doubt that there are the mafias of Moyano and Baradel, who have a lot of power in Congress to pass the laws that guarantee the famous ‘let’s go for everything’ that Cristina once represented,” he said. “And on the other side,” he countered, “is Milei, with a team of people who in many cases are new, who want to move the country forward with new ideas that have worked in the developed world.” At the same time, he stressed that JxC will have “legislative control” to “set limits” in case there is something “that crosses a line.” In response to another query, Angelini rejected that Macri wants to take over an eventual government of La Libertad Avanza and clarified that the decision to summon former officials linked to Macrism will depend on Milei.

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