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Javier Milei stated that Cristina Kirchner seeks to “dynamite” her agreement with Mauricio Macri: “She wants me to eat the curve” - Infobae
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February 16, 2024

The President assured that the document issued by the former president aimed to affect her relationship with the PRO leader. He stated that the alliance between La Libertad Avanza and that force “already occurred naturally.”



Javier Milei stated that Cristina Kirchner seeks to dynamit her relationship with Macri.
President Javier Milei today raised the tone of criticism against Cristina Kirchner, despite the fact that his first responses to the document that the former president released days ago had referred exclusively to economic issues. Now, the leader of La Libertad Avanza said that the paper seeks to “dynamite” her relationship with Mauricio Macri and the agreement with the PRO.

During an extensive interview on Radio Rivadavia , the president covered several current political issues, referred again to the controversy with the singer Lali Espósito (although he did not name her directly) and assured that the alliance with the PRO " already happened naturally ." .

In part of his talk with journalist Jonatan Viale, the president was asked about the relationship he has with former president Mauricio Macri: “Wonderful, as always. We have a genuine, deep, sincere dialogue . “He is very generous to me,” he responded, and said that a face-to-face meeting with the PRO leader “will happen at some point.”

Then, he spoke about the possible formalization of an agreement between La Libertad Avanza and the PRO. He stated that he had always had “the intention of generating that merger,” although he stated that, after what happened in the Chamber of Deputies with the treatment of the Omnibus Law, “ naturally it already happened on its own, no one forced it.”
“When you look at the vote in deputies, you have to consider the enormous work of Cristian Ritondo. Point for Ritondo and for the PRO,” he highlighted.

It was there when he put Cristina Kirchner at the center of the political scene: “There are people working to make us fight. Who would be the main loser with this? Christina, obviously. Because if we merge and in the midterm election we get 60% of the votes, they won't come back again,” she asserted.

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Cristina Kirchner and Javier Milei, at the presidential transfer ceremony on December 10, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Matias Baglietto

After clarifying that he never received a message from the former president, and that the only time they spoke was during the presidential handover ceremony on December 10, Milei was more forceful regarding the supposed political objective of the two-time president. “I see how the whole operation works all the time of trying to blow that up. The document is armed with that motive, (to) embolden me, lift me up and make me eat the curve. In one part she says 'Milei could win the second round alone, without Macri.' Do you want to put more dynamite than that? But she is not going to be lucky,” she highlighted.

On Wednesday, Cristina Kirchner published on her social networks a 33-page document titled “Argentina in its third debt crisis” in which, in addition to taking a historical tour of the country's course with respect to its external debt, she criticizes the Government and He describes Milei as “a showman-economist in La Rosada.

In the paper, the former president criticizes officials of the current Government who were part of the Macrista administration, such as the Minister of Economy, Luis “Toto” Caputo , and the presidential advisor Federico Sturzennegger; She warned about the heavy debt taking in dollars and she even recalled the political forces “that obtained their own strength that infused them with founding air, could not finish their mandates when they failed to give society the quality of life that Argentines demand. ”.

The document was Cristina Kirchner's first public expression since she ended her duties as vice president of Alberto Fernández on December 10 of last year.

Referring to the former president, Milei was also consulted about the controversial issue of non-contributory pensions that all former presidents or their relatives receive. There, he tried to lower his tone and said that, “if the legal issue allows it,” he was not going to get involved. In any case, he recalled that his Omnibus Law project included the elimination of the so-called privileged retirements, he announced that he will insist on that issue and confirmed that he will seek to apply these reforms through other mechanisms.

I'm going to get back to it .” They don't see it, they don't understand the principle of revelation, they are thinking about a one-shot, one-period model. We think in terms of dynamic decision trees, what am I going to explain to these guys who don't see it. We are going to be sending laws that continue to exacerbate the principle of disclosure, so when they vote against, they are all left with dirty fingers,” he said.

The controversy with Lali Espósito, the use of social networks and more: other definitions of Milei​

In the interview, which lasted almost an hour, the President covered several current political and economic issues. One of them was the controversy that broke out in the last few hours due to her continuous criticism of the popular singer Lali Espósito, although this time he avoided naming her and resorted to one of the theories of Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist theorist.

“The problem of Argentine decadence is of a moral and cultural nature. The problem is ethical. That set of values that Argentina embraced at some point and that results in a set of institutions that leads to failure. This model has a logic, it is the model under which socialism is introduced into a society. It is a Gramsci model,” she began.

Milei recalled that “ Gramsci said that you had to enter into education, into culture, so that the representatives of culture would spread socialism, and the third leg is the media. Those were the swords that the State had, giving money to artists and the media to propagate socialism while they indoctrinated you in schools.”

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Lali Espósito in Córdoba

And he continued: “You go and touch the artists' paw. So, first all the artists come together. At the same time, journalists who live off the agenda. And, furthermore, those linked to education and caste are brought together. And the caste are the crazy politicians; As Professor Espert tells the Sindigarcas; prebendary businessmen; the microphones attached and the professionals functional to that structure. On the other side are those who are beneficiaries of privileges. In an economy where everything is fine, nothing happens. But when you find yourself with a situation of cash restriction, that's where the problem begins.”

Milei also spoke about his active presence on social networks, where every day he usually replicates messages of support for his Government and attacks on opponents:

“Who was affected by the right to life, to liberty, to private property? To nobody. And so what's the problem with me using my Twitter,” she said. In addition, he said that he himself is in charge of the messages on X, on Facebook and on Instagram, although he said that his TikTok account is managed by Iñae Gutiérrez, one of the young communication advisors.

Regarding the economy, the President affirmed that his Government is “a champion of progressivism in Argentina” because, he stated, it avoided hyperinflation and is lowering it. In fact, he announced that, according to “ high frequency indicators”, February inflation “comes at 10%.”


We are applying a strongly progressive policy in this matter, we are the champions of progressivism in Argentina: we avoided hyperinflation, today we would be 95% poor, we are working to lower it. “We are being the champions of progressivism in Argentina, because as it is a tremendously regressive tax, what we are doing is helping the most vulnerable,” he assured.
 
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