Javier Milei was encapsious, emperiated, determined and other synonyms. He did not want, for anything in the world, to release his hand to his main candidate in the province, José Luis Espert. They did not matter the increasingly overwhelming evidence on their confidenced link with the alleged “Fred” Machado narco, the 200 thousand dollars that that patron had turned to an account of his did not matter, the images of the bald economist flying in the airplanes of the contributing or sunbathing in the pool of his Viedma stay did not matter. None of that interest: Espert seemed immovable. He had warned that he did not plan to get off and, for some reason that is unknown, Milei was willing to comply with that request and immolate himself next to him until the end.
But the voices of reason appeared, those of their surroundings, which warned the president that this road map was equivalent to political suicide. The surveys showed that Espert’s explanations about the scandal had not convinced anyone, except Milei, and that his negative image climbed an unpublished 80 percent. Impossible to face an choice with those numbers.
The first to raise his voice, and in public, was Patricia Bullrich when he said that the candidate had to clarify what happened because his first answers – who spoke of a “Kichnerist operation” and said that Machado had seen him once in his life – they had been inconsistent. The spokesman Manuel Adorni, an alfil of Sister Karina Milei, who never looked with good eyes to Espert, also warned that “if there are missing explanations, pay them to him.” Mauricio Macri, in his second reunion with the president, was another who told him about the convenience of lowering his candidacy. And Deputy Diego Santilli, today turned into the new head of the list, in private threatened to paste the Poczo si Espert was still in front of the libertarian ballot. The advisor Santiago Caputo whispered the same to Milei: holding the “teacher”, as he calls it, it was all loss. It was campaigning with a political corpse they had already hiding in the last acts before their resignation.
In short, they were all against the president. And the president, for once, had to give in.
Why did you delay so much? The answer may be in the fact that Milei fears Espert for the information he handles. Recall that it was the economist who started the libertarian in politics back in 2021, when he included it in his space advances Libertad. Milei ended up breaking with Espert and in more than one talk said that the other had tempted him with 300 thousand dollars to get off his candidacy in CABA, which bother a strategic ally of the economist, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. More specifically, he spoke of 300 thousand dollars in a suitcase, on a table, which says he rejected. The version that is privately given is different: that it was not that amount of silver, and that it was, in reality, the “monthly payment” that paid Milei by military next to him. In one or another variant of the story, of course, there would hardly be invoices in between. Everything seems to point out that it was black silver.
Another curious coincidence that explains how difficult it was for Milei to get rid of Espert is the known fact that the two share a lawyer: Francisco Oneto. And do you know who more defends Oneto? Yes, to “Fred” Machado.
