“We are not going to back down”: Bullrich’s message in the midst of the confrontation with Macri

After Mauricio Macri complained to President Javier Milei about the co-participation of the City of Buenos Aires and after the diagnosis made of the current situation by the Pensar foundation in the midst of the internal PRO for the leadership of the party, the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, came out to support the national government and launched a shot for the former president: “We can’t stop, once again, halfway.” This Thursday, the assembly members of the yellow party were meeting at the Abasto Hotel in Balvanera to define the new authorities of the party. After having recovered the national leadership, the former president promotes as head of the party’s Assembly the former mayor of Pinamar and current national deputy Martín Yeza. In the same play, he seeks to leave Patricia Bullrich out of the space, determined to play hard for a merger with La Libertad Avanza. The debate I want to have in the PRO is not a debate of charges, it is much deeper: it is a debate of direction. We are not going to back down,” Bullrich said in a statement published this Thursday on his X account (formerly Twitter). We decided to support Javier Milei because if change did not happen now, we would sink. And in 6 months we already see an unprecedented change, achieved against all odds,” he added. OUR UNCONDITIONAL COMMITMENT TO CHANGE AND FREEDOMThe 6,200,000 people accompanied me in my decision to support Javier Milei in the second round. It was a commitment to the Argentines who believed in our conviction to accompany, with all our strength,…— Patricia Bullrich (@PatoBullrich) July 4, 2024 In this internal dispute over the direction of the space, Bullrich also made his own the 6.3 million votes he obtained in the first round of last year’s presidential elections and that, for the most part, migrated to Javier Milei in the second round against Sergio Massa, candidate of Union for the Homeland. “There were 6,200,000 people who accompanied me in my decision to support Javier Milei in the second round. It was a commitment to the Argentines who believed in our conviction to accompany, with all our strength, those who managed to represent the change with more strength.” With all this, the former presidential candidate of the extinct Juntos por el Cambio said that she wants to “infect” the PRO “with the courage that is required to start the engines and go full steam ahead.” “Argentina cannot miss this opportunity to be protagonists of the most daring and necessary change in recent decades,” he stressed. And in a veiled allusion to the former president’s administration, he said: “We cannot stay, once again, halfway. That’s why I put myself at risk, as I always did, and I’m counting on you.”

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