In mid 2019, Martin Menem granted to javier milei one of the moments that he treasures: after months of lobbying with his family, he managed to get them to accept that the then media economist was in a meeting with his uncle, the former president Carlos Saul Menemwhom the leader of La Libertad Avanza defines as “the best president in history.”
The meeting, which was to last half an hour, lasted a long time. “We went at 7 in the afternoon and it was 10:30 at night and Menem told us to stay,” he now revealed in an interview. ex-president’s nephewwho got into politics, is a provincial deputy for The Rioja for La Libertad Avanza and dreams of succeeding Ricardo Quintela in the governorship.
At that meeting, Menem, who was already 89 years old, installed Milei with the chip that he was up for important things: “Don’t loosen up, you can be president. And you’ll be better than me: you are my heir“, Told him. The liberal economist wants to meet the objective in 2023.
Bell. At 48 years old, Martín wants to wrest the governorship from Peronism.
The lawyer believes that he has a chance because the population is fed up with traditional politics. But the speech is paradoxical: while he denies “the caste”, aligned with the speech of his boss, he boasts of being the bearer of the “Menem brand”, who was involved in politics until the moment of his death.
His mixed campaign toured by The Rioja with arguments about the dollarization. A few days before the election, his messages on social networks have more national economic content than regional issues. Despite this, Menem has his strategy.
“Now you do have someone to vote for”, say the posters that were pasted in La Rioja. In the photo, Martín is on one side and javier milei to the center.
“We have an opportunity, because it is the province that votes the least in Argentina. Three out of ten people do not vote and one in ten votes blank. Of those that remain, three or a little more are owned by the PJ and the rest, the opposition, ”he told the NA agency. He must seduce the disenchanted.
On May 7, the people of La Rioja will go to the dark room to elect their next governor. It will be a litmus test for the Milei-Menem alliance. A difficult coalition to digest for those who believe that the liberal deputy fights against the ultraconservatives of “the caste”.
