While discussing what the Freedom Agreement and the Pro will be discussed in the province of Buenos Aires and each one tries to impose as many conditions, One thing is clear: Javier Milei has already chose who will lead the list. “Espert is my candidate,” he repeats. “He is the president of the most important commission of Congress. He is an important and key player. Being two fans of the economy, we do not come to waste time,” he explained at some point.
But the relationship between Milei and Espert was not always good. The president came to accuse his candidate of trying to coiminate him with 300 thousand dollars, among other things. For the PRO neither is a comfortable list head: in 2023, they pressed to be integrated together for the change and became part of the list of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, but then it was one of the first to make the leap to freedom advances.
In addition, the sister style, Overdrained by the forms of the president himself, it is difficult to accompany. Days ago, at the UCA Political Communication Congress, he dispatched with a strong insult that caused the boo of those present and for which he had to leave the room where he was sharing a panel. “How are you not going to be bitter if you are the daughter of a great whore?” He said about Florencia Kirchner. The reproach was such that the deputies of Union for the country asked to be expelled from the Chamber of Deputies.
Wild style.
Espert did not give much importance to the matter. Understand that beyond the Kirchner claim, the idea of ejecting it from the bank will not prosper. But Opposition legislators appealed to article 66 of the National Constitution, which allows the removal of deputies for ethical or moral reasons. “His grievance was not limited to insult: with his actions, he discursively enabled the reproduction of hate speeches, which degrade democratic quality and dehumanize the political adversary,” says the formal request.
It was not the only reaction. On Monday 16, he was vandalized by the front of his home: a group of people got out of a truck and threw excrement at the door. “Here lives the M … of sister,” said the message. LTo the deputy’s wife he saw what was happening and went to make the complaint. “This is a sample of what Kirchnerism is. Of what Argentines suffered all these years. They will not stop us with anything,” he said. And he completed: “I tell Kirchnerism that if you have to get with me, to get into, but do not do it with my family.”
With the president’s public statements, Espert claimed to be the head of the list, something that allows him to dream of a more promising political future, in case of winning Peronism. But, above all, it gives you peace of mind. It is that when the agreement began to negotiate with Cristian Ritondo and Diego Santilli, the liberal deputy felt that his place of privilege could be in danger. Finally, Milei made his intentions public and speculation was over.
The conflicting relationship with Milei.
“Profess, welcome to the forces of heaven,” the president wrote on Twitter to Espert, in January 2024. But weeks before that friendly message, things were not well among them. In fact, Milei came to accuse Espert of trying to bribe him with $ 300,000 to lower his candidacy for deputy. “The economist told the anecdote a dozen times, not only in confidence but on some occasions, even in television events and sets,” said Juan Luis González in “El Loco”, the president’s unauthorized biography.
It was in mid -2021, shortly before Milei made his political debut. According to the story of the now president, Espert arrived at a meeting with a suitcase. There were 300 thousand dollars, in exchange for accepting his candidacy for deputy, because he had grown a lot in the polls and took votes from the pro. “The money was above the table. And you see the thousands of dollars there and you have to decide. They wanted me to run,” he told Fantino in an interviewa year later, although taking care not to mention his former friend, who had made the proposal.
It took a couple of years to rebuild the relationship. Now “the teacher” enjoys the president’s confidence, again. And it will be the candidate in the province, although for its allies it is an uncomfortable list head.
