Martin Yeza He turned 36 a couple of hours ago but still couldn’t celebrate. Not only because of the interview he is about to do with NEWS, but because the city he commands, like every summer, is at the center of the national scene. So far this season two people have died from car accidents. quadricycles, which put Pinamar in the middle of the country’s media debate, but it doesn’t stop there. The birthday boy, who is going for his second term and is stomping inside Cambiemos, created a stir within his coalition when he stood up to the indefinite re-election of the mayors, warning that he was not going to compete in 2023. “We have to return to the essence of who we were, “he says.
Yeza: The re-elections put on the table a crisis of concept that we have had since 2019: where we are going and what we will be by 2023, what we will become. There is also a crisis of concept and leadership, particularly in the PRO, which has an identity crisis. In 2015 Cambiemos came to challenge a culture of power, and within that a very central issue was our position with indefinite re-elections. Now we have to discuss, with whatever tension is necessary, what is our north.
News: How much of this has to do with Marcos Peña’s absence?
Yeza: Quite. I am not saying that it is resolved with Marcos coming back, there is no one and there should be no one – since there is a leadership crisis – because there could not be a Marcos today either. It is a vacant place, but Marcos served an essential function. But it is not resolved even with the best intellectual in Latin America.
News: And what will Macri’s place be?
Yeza: I believe that if the PRO found its new best version, Mauricio would feel that he had fulfilled his duty.
News: Cambiemos came to challenge a culture of power but later videos like the one about the “Gestapo” appear.
Yeza: That is in the hands of the Justice, I hope they solve it and that each of the people who was there give explanations about what they said and what they did. What I’m sure of is that María Eugenia Vidal had nothing to do with it. I put my hands on fire for her.
News: But at that table there were two ministers and a senator from her.
Yeza: I don’t know them, but I do know Vidal and I know he wouldn’t be able to do something like that.
News: Suppose you didn’t know anything. Wouldn’t that in itself be a problem? Three high-ranking officials from Buenos Aires acting for theirs.
Yeza: We will have to see what happened. The allusion to the Gestapo is unpleasant and unfortunate, it is wrong, but there is a difference between ethics and crime. Thinking is not a crime, it would be a crime if they did something as a result of that idea. That is what is serious and what the Justice has to investigate.
News: And what is the relationship with the current governor like? On election day you said that they were “treated badly for thinking differently.”
Yeza: In the case of the Province … it is very difficult for some people to understand that one dissent does not mean that the other hates you, but that it is part of democracy. Every time I have to sit down to talk, I will.
News: But you implied that they were being discriminated against.
Yeza: No adjective, I describe: last year the Province took 22 police mobiles from us, and they left us only four.
