The former professional tennis player Diego Hartfield He officially added to the ranks of La Libertad advances (Lla) like candidate for provincial deputy in Misionesin what marks its formal landing in party policy. Although its application has just been confirmed, within the space already They project it as a potential candidate for governor for 2027a possibility that he does not rule out and gains strength for his technical profile and his good link with the Minister of Economy, Luis “Toto” Caputo.
“I am happy, I was quite surprised by the news,” Hartfield said about his candidacy in a recent interview with El Reventor (Delta 90.3). After withdrawing from professional tennis in 2010, it began an unusual path for high performance athletes: A decade as a sports commentator on TyC Sportsbut also silent and consisting of the world of finance. “On the way I was preparing as an investor in the stock market,” he explained, added: “I arrive more on the economic side of politics than ‘the thread’.”
That preparation positions it as an attractive figure within the libertarian scheme. With an economic vision related to the ideology of Javier Milei and aligned with the management of Caputo, Hartfield has speech and numbers. “The first objective that is sought in the country is to kill inflation,” he said forcefully, and justified: “When you plan inflation, the first favored are the lower class.”
With a didactic tone and sports metaphors, Hartfield described the years before the Milei government as a macroeconomic lack of control. “This country was traction for decades by a cheap dollar and led us to consume more,” he said. And he pointed against economic populism: “We had an economy that was like a player with a broken meniscus. It was an economy that was on its way to collapse. ”In that line, he supported the first measures of the national government:“During the first year of Milei we were in the operating room making changes at the macro level”
Hartfield, that He had his peak as a tennis player in 2007 when he reached 73 in the ATP rankingsee clear parallel between high competition and the new political challenge. But above all, it focuses on the structural: “Argentina has a poor financial education,” he denounced, and warned that the key to change goes through the cultural: “TWe have to go out to give a rather important cultural battle”
Although his public figure was linked to sport, his landing in politics is part of a national strategy of lla to attract profiles “out of the system”, but with technical expertise. Hartfieldwhich is declared admirer of the Milei approach and especially the Caputo Economic Plan, It is already part of the libertarian device in Misiones. His relationship with the Minister of Economy – who values both technical and politically – makes him one of the referents with the greatest harmony within space.
“The battle will be in communication,” he says, aware of the electoral challenges in a province with strong official hegemony. And concludes with a long -term look: “We want to beat in a type of country like those developed.” With that vision, Hartfield not only looks for a place in the provincial legislature, but also consolidate as An emerging from the new political assembly that projects around 2027.
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