It seems like it happened in another life. It was a quarter of a century ago, when reality was very different. Back then Guillermo Yanco He was a journalist who covered day-to-day life in Congress. The current PRO candidate was a Peronist representative. They say that for him she was a crush at first sight, and that he chased after her every time she passed her in the hallways. In fact, legend has it that the first time he asked her out was during a march, in the street, but that Patricia Bullrich time and again rejected her invitations. Finally, 25 years ago and in an unexpected turn, the woman ended up agreeing to the appointment.
They went to see a movie, the recently released “Pretty Woman,” with Julia Roberts. After dinner. There, in that inaugural meeting, “la Piba” sent him a warning that still resonates in both of their ears. “Guillermo, I’ll let you know right away. Never, but never, make me choose between you and politics. Because I’m going to stay with politics.”
Now Bullrich remembers the scene and laughs, a scene from the distant past. But it doesn’t seem like just another anecdote at all: that first date with Yanco defines her from head to toe. Patricia Bullrich: It’s like that with me, it’s always been like that. With me it’s black or white.
Now, 25 years later, things have changed. Bullrich and her husband open the door to their house, near the Botanical Garden. They pose for photos, they laugh, they chat, they show their paintings, their photos together, like the one they have above the double bed, where they can be seen looking sweet. They have had an uninterrupted quarter of a century of an intense relationship, most of them living in that same 120 square meter apartment.
The man says that, despite the hustle and bustle of the campaign, every time she is in Buenos Aires he takes care of making her breakfast in the morning. The leader celebrates her occurrences, and it would seem that he is her cable to her ground, the cut with a more than complex electoral year for her and for her entire coalition. Others are paddle tennis, her favorite sport, her three grandchildren (two of hers and one of her partner, for whom she has reserved another cell phone that is not the one she uses for politics), the treadmill in the gym while listening to the newspapers read over an audio system or the history or economics podcast programs you usually listen to.
The kitchen is not the place where she spends the most time, although the leader swears that the stuffed squash she makes from time to time have nothing to envy of the chefs’ dishes seen on television. In all these moments, Bullrich forgets that, against all the odds – his own, those of his party and even those of the red circle -, Javier Milei He came out first in the primary elections and would seem to have a serious chance of reaching the October ones. And that, if any variable does not go as expected, Together for Change could end up in a disgraceful third place. Yanco is, in that sense, his great support.
