In the LN+ program “La Cornisa”, broadcast on Sunday night, Luis Majul interviewed Manuel Adorni, recently appointed chief of staff after the resignation of Guillermo Francos. The driver did not avoid thorny issues: he started with Mauricio Macri’s tweet, who described Adorni’s appointment as “unwise” by criticizing his lack of experience and technical profile.
“Perhaps President Macri played a trick on the feeling of nostalgia for other times. First because the team of ministers is chosen by the President of the Nation, as he did at the time with Marcos Peña, who took him as far as he took him, a government that ended with serious economic problems and that led to the return of Kirchnerism,” Adorni responded.
In another section, the talk led to a spicy exchange about testimonial candidacies. “The testimonial candidacies are a fraud, a scam and a farce to the electorate,” Majul snapped at Adorni. The chief of staff nodded, but the journalist redoubled: “But you ended up being a testimonial candidate.”
Majul projected on the screen the identical phrase by Javier Milei: “Testimony candidacies are a fraud, a scam and a farce to the electorate.” Adorni, cornered, responded: “He is right. All of us who belong to La Libertad Avanza and this work team think exactly the same thing: the testimonials are a fraud on the electorate, the guy who goes to the elections on Sunday to vote for you but the testimonial is what you present yourself as a candidate for, already knowing that you are not going to take office and already having a destination to go to. It was not the case of Santilli and it is not my case. In fact, I was already working on bills for the legislature. As Diego (Santilli) said that I took his phrase: when faced with the call of the President to collaborate in a certain place, one owes it to the President.”
The exchange exposed the contradiction: Adorni, candidate for Buenos Aires legislator for LLA, left the bench before taking office to join the Executive. Majul insisted on the “farce” to the voter, but Adorni hid behind loyalty to the presidential call, without differentiating himself from the case of Diego Santilli – an ally of his own. The crossing revealed the internal tensions of the ruling party: Majul, who usually supports the Government, this time dared to harshly confront the chief of staff.
