In times where public words coincide with the underground movements of real policy, the Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich He strives to deny his eventual candidacy for the Senate by the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. However, in a series of gestures carefully orchestrated by Casa Rosada, the president Javier Milei And the official herself indicate otherwise: the ruling party considers its nomination not only as a strong letter to trace votes in Buenos Aires territory, but also as a strategic play to reorder the libertarian internal in the Upper House and subtract power from an uncomfortable and increasingly challenging figure: Victoria Villarruel.
The stage became more evident this weekend, when Milei uploaded a photo having breakfast with Bullrich in Olivos. He accompanied the image with a message in which the “defense of the achievements” of the government highlighted and drawn “new objectives” for October. The warm tone of the message – and the usual ritual of sharing Sundays with her Minister of Security – was not accidental. The photo intended to explicit a personal and political support in the midst of the storm that hits the ruling after its parliamentary defeat in the Senate and the increasingly rough crosses between the president and his vice president.
Bullrich, meanwhile, replied the image in his networks with an eloquent phrase: “With Javier we defend that course in front of the usualthat they want to break everything with such a return to power. Our answer: more transformations, more freedom, more prosperity. ”There was not a single mention to electoral speculation, although the entire tone of the message reference to the electoral battle.
Polyifunctional candidate
For weeks, Bullrich has been a double role within the ruling party: on the one hand, it acts as a visible face of the libertarian hard wing, aligned with Milei’s confrontation strategy. On the other, it emerges as a fuse against the institutional disorder that generated the actions of Villarruel in the Senate. The vice president was accused by the president of having “betrayed” the government by enabling a self -convened session in which laws opposed to the Mileista policy were approved: pension moratorium, increased retirement and emergency in disability. Bullrich was one of the first officials to go to the crossing: “Villarruel is equal to the Kirchnerists. He spends and does not say where the money will come from,” he launched in statements to LN+.
The minister too He pointed against Villarruel’s “double” by criticizing the funds for SIDE But without mentioning the expenses of the Senate, and accused the vice president of wanting to “return to the disease of emission, inflation and poverty.” His speech served as a narrative anchor to shield the president and mark an explicit contrast between two models: that of the orthodox adjustment that the Executive embodies and the “concealed populism” that, according to Bullrich, represents the vice.
Vice early
In this framework, Bullrich’s name sounds stronger and stronger as a Senate candidate for the city. The election in CABA – one of the eight jurisdictions that renew benches in the upper house – is key to the ruling party. Not only because of the specific weight of the seats, but because freedom progresses will not go in alliance with the PRO. That is, Milei needs a figure with its own weight that can compete, counteract the residual power of Buenos Aires macrismo and capture liberal, republican and antikirchnerist votes simultaneously.
Bullrich embodies all that. Its ideological profile is related to mileism, it has a consolidated electoral basis in the city, parliamentary experience and a level of national knowledge that very few leaders can match. Besideshis candidacy would solve two problems at the same time: shield the election in a central district and allow the government to incorporate a loyal voice in the Senate, which works as a counterweight to an increasingly autonomous and critical Villarruel.
Bullrich denies it
In public, Bullrich insists that she will not be a candidate. “We are not talking about that with the president,” he said after breakfast in Olivos, and stressed that the conversation revolved around “the achievements of the government and the challenges forward.” But that refusal has more of tactics than conviction. In the current electoral logic, admitting a candidacy ahead of time may mean being offside. The minister is still at the forefront of a sensitive portfolio and her exit must be carefully managed, especially when the government still faces unsolved security problems. Among the possible replacements, names such as the mayor are already mentioned Diego Valenzuela or the current Secretary of Security, Alejandra Monteoliva.
In addition, Bullrich’s candidacy must still resolve internal tensions. Although Milei and its closest circle support it, other sectors still do not completely digest their presence, considering it a “resure of the traditional political system.” However, electoral pragmatism is imposed: if the ruling party wants to make a good choice in Caba and underpin its legislative base, Bullrich seems to be the most effective path.
Dispute with Villarruel
The background of this story is the reconfiguration of power within the ruling itself. The vice president has begun to build its own political capital, based on nationalist and conservative sectors that feel more represented by it than by Milei. In recent weeks, Villaruel changed his team of advisorshe added military retired to the Senate, strengthened his patriotic discourse and showed that his political project does not necessarily run out to accompany the president.
For Milei, that profile is a threat. And for Bullrich, an opportunity. If the minister arrives at the Senate with an important flow of votes, it will become the most powerful official reference in the upper house. His presence would allow the president to balance the relationship of forces and prevent Villarruel from consolidating a parallel or —peor bench even – becoming an internal opposition figure.
October as a platform
Beyond the short term, A Bullrich candidacy has a strategic value for 2027. If you get a solid choice, it could be positioned as a natural aspiring to the Head of Buenos Aires Government, although it also sounds as possible vice of a second mandate in Milei. In that medium -term game, senaduría would be an ideal platform to relaunch their executive career, without abandoning the entire radar of national politics.
For now, everything is denial and speculation. But in politics, as is known, silences usually say more than the statements. And in this case, breakfast in Olivos, the coordinated attacks on Villarruel and the government’s insistence into Bullrich into his narrative shield, suggest that his name will be on the October ballot, although she still does not admit it.
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