Elisa Carrió can’t handle her genius. Retired from politics, she continues to look for a way to be connected: in the last week, she called journalists to do a mini media tour in order to promote a civil association that she is going to lead. “Advertising on networks is very expensive,” he told them.
The founder of the Civic Coalition no longer has the firepower of other times and has lost her natural virtue to get good ratings. She is no longer the wild card of the producers, but rather she is the one who asks to go on TV. It’s just that the limits are very stretched. Before, his bombastic statements made traditional politics tremble. Today, pro-government officials and legislators say so many atrocities to each other that their phrases go almost unnoticed.
Birth.
In any case, Carrió is still active. With a small group of collaborators, many of them historic members of the Civic Coalition, he announced the start of “a civil, non-political association that will fight against corruption and for humanism,” as he revealed in a video.
As NEWS learned, the association would be called For Peace and Justice. “It’s going to revolve around the threats of technocracies and technology,” says one contributor. He follows the same line with his Hannah Arendt Institute. It is Carrió’s last concern. And he has a first and last name: Peter Thiel.
The former deputy has it between her eyebrows. “That it is installed in Argentina is terrible,” he wrote in
Thiel, one of the most influential businessmen in Silicon Valley, met at least twice with Javier Milei and part of his cabinet at Casa Rosada. Therefore, his landing in the country is surrounded by speculation. “He is going to use us as an experiment,” he warns. And then he assures: “They trade your freedom for your security, it is Hobbes’ Leviathan theory.”
True to his style, Carrió predicts what is coming in politics: “Milei is not going to have a new mandate,” he said in an interview on Infobae. And he added: “He must stabilize his character. He is destroying himself. He can’t handle himself.”
However, he gave a sign of encouragement to the President: “It seems like I am a mileista when I say this, but I feel like we have to give it time,” he said. And he added: “Just like in the crisis in the countryside, when Néstor told Cristina to resign, I said that we had to give the President time. The same thing now.”
Looking for a place.
Carrió assures that she is not going to be a candidate. At least for now it is not in their plans. He doesn’t have the energy to run for executive office and he doesn’t want to return to Congress. “It was filled with cats,” he often repeats.
But he closely follows what happens with his party. And there were news in the Civic Coalition. The two deputies representing the space broke the Unidos interblock, which they made up of the United Provinces and the Federal Encounter. Maximiliano Ferraro and Mónica Frade alleged “political differences” with their now former blockmates, in relation to the steps to follow with the alleged cases of Government corruption.
Since that split, the interblock lost third place in number of members. Now that space is occupied by the PRO and UCR interblock.
For Carrió, the Adorni case is already res judicata: “Adorni is already in place,” he said in the last hours. And he justified: “If you have to explain 800 thousand dollars in two years… I built a house in nine years and spent half of it. I received a peso-denominated judgment, I sold a blank apartment and they performed an operation on me, but the next day they declared that it was in bad faith.”
The problem, for the former deputy, is that Adorni was delighted with the advantages of power: “The enthusiasm of the nouveau riche came to him. Then he did enormous stupid things. Why do you want a waterfall? Those stupid things that guys sell you because you fall in love with false luxury. They charge you anything for that,” she alleged.
The co-founder of Together for Change believes that the fact that the President supports his Chief of Staff is because he essentially believes him innocent: “Milei supports him because they are equal. They were born black. There is a part of that society that was born black.”
“Lilita” will remain far from politics, especially if there is no candidate to represent her on the most basic issues. “They fired me when I had to choose between Milei and Massa,” he explains when someone asks about his retirement. With such a negative view of the current situation, Carrió once again praised a former partner to whom he had only been giving a cold shoulder lately: “Mauricio is surely seeing an opportunity,” he said in an interview.
The leader of the Civic Coalition insists on her retirement, but the internal flame that keeps her attentive to the country’s development does not go out. “They called me crazy for a long time. But I’m an actress and I never lose my rationality,” she says. And he adds: “Even when I get angry, I have fun.” In order not to get bored at home, Carrió remains active.
