With the relaunch of PRO, Mauricio Macri took on momentum and spoke against the appointment of Judge Ariel Lijo as a member of the Supreme Court, a gesture which brought him closer to Vice President Victoria Villarruel, who months ago said she was against the magistrate’s nomination.
While awaiting definitions to expand the highest court of the land, Macri disclosed his position in a television interview.
While talking to Jonatan Viale, the head of the PRO said he considers the possible arrival of the federal judge at the Supreme Court “a mistake”, and also clarified that he has conveyed his opinion to President Javier Milei.
“Nominating someone who causes such debate is a decision I don’t understand”, said the former president. “I told Javier [Milei] I didn’t agree, that I think it’s a mistake”, he insisted.
Thus, Macri put another difference with Milei on the table: Courts in his view are the decisive factor to bring the country back on a path of progress, a definition that clashes with the head of State, more centred on macroeconomics.
“The most important thing to be reinstated in Argentina, which is the force that revitalices a country back into progress, is trust. A stable economy, with no inflation, without a fiscal deficit, is one leg. But the most important thing are Courts”, Macri suggested.
He also used himself as an example and stated that he proposes “two people” for the Supreme Court, “who were more or less likeable, but that there was a debate”, in reference to Horacio Rosatti and Carlos Rosenkrantz.
At another interview he gave after the rally in La Boca where he relaunched the PRO, with such absences as Patricia Bullrich and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, he revealed part of the chat he had with Milei about Lijo. “That was what I said to Milei. To speak with the truth and keep everyone from getting angry. I told them all I think. I told him I don’t like Lijo and he answered it’s a decisión. He believes he’ll make a change, but I replied we need to regain trust”, he said on television. The judge’s document has been rejected, so far, by 33 challenges.
“The President has proposed a merger, but I said in this century nobody gets married before they live together,” were Macri’s words at Arena Estudio, the location in La Boca where he brought together a large number of supporters to relaunch the space he created 20 years ago.
He later elaborated on the same front: “That’s why I believe we need to start working together from below. In decentralised areas and bodies. Let’s coordinate the work in the Chamber of Deputies. This year has been hell, bills fell through and our deputies had to fall to try to fix them and see how it was done. Let’s have joint strategies”.
Part of his address, in addition to claiming support for Milei to follow what he considers the path of freedom, was also aimed at the presidential entourage, zealously guarded by Karina Milei and Santiago Caputo, his star advisor. "Milei has clarity, but there’s a weakness in his capacity to implement it. Changes need re-engineering. Argentines want changes and they want them faster,” he said. And then he concluded: “What we could do to help Milei was despite his entourage."
– TIMES/PERFIL
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