“Serious”, was the synthetic message that Lilia Lemoine posted on her personal X account. The libertarian legislator accompanied the tweet with a fragment of a note in which it was announced that the Buenos Aires Government Minister, Carlos Biancorefused to take a breathalyzer test. At that moment, after the refusal by the official of Axel Kicillof, The traffic agents controlling the Buenos Aires-La Plata highway proceeded to retain the driver’s license.
Bianco’s refusal ignited criticism and a public debate about compliance with current legislation, particularly the Zero Alcohol Lawwhich prohibits the circulation of any driver with alcohol in their blood in the province of Buenos Aires. The Peronist publicly explained that He chose not to undergo the test because there were unidentified people filming the procedureand assured: “I have nothing to hide, but under these conditions I don’t do it,” defending his decision to request the record instead of the evidence.
The event that occurred in April of last year, now resurfaced on social networks by the libertarian troll Translator He Loves You, generated strong repercussions due to the refusal of the test by Bianco. In fact, he was the subject of a criminal complaint presented by the deputy of La Libertad Avanza Sebastian Pascual, who accused him of abuse of authority, disobedience and influence peddlingarguing that he not only broke the traffic law but, according to prosecutors and opponents, also used his position to avoid harsher penalties.
In contrast to the Peronist controversy, the libertarian militant Eugenia Rolón was involved in a traffic episode that unleashed a scandal of another kind on Thursday, January 8 in Garlic Sea. The 23-year-old young woman linked to the communication of the national ruling party, He crashed his vehicle into a public lighting pole after making reckless maneuvers on public roads. Traffic personnel from Operativo Sol subjected the communicator to breathalyzer control, which showed 1.89 grams of alcohol per liter of bloodwell above the permitted limit and in a “zero tolerance” jurisdiction.
What aggravates the situation is that the young woman He did not have a valid driver’s license. at the time of the accident, which constitutes a double serious infraction. For this reason, the Buenos Aires Ministry of Transportation acted ex officio and disqualified her from applying for a driver’s license in the province of Buenos Airesin an administrative measure that, due to the interpretation of the system, could extend several years as an exemplary sanction.
Rolón’s case did not end only at the administrative level: according to several media, Her partner, tiktoker Iñaki Gutiérrez, reported her to a police station for driving while intoxicated and for alleged unauthorized use of the vehicle.which adds a criminal dimension to the case. Until now, there have been no official statements from the national government regarding the episode, which has been widely disseminated on social networks.
The comparison between a senior official who evaded the breathalyzer test and that of a young activist who was drastically punished for the same type of infraction; fueled debates in the media and political opinion on the uniform application of traffic rules and the perception of privileges according to political position. Critical voices pointed out that Bianco’s situation could have been treated with greater rigor, including the hijacking of the vehicle, as indicated by the protocol in the event of a refusal to take the test.
A recognized precedent in this regard was that of the former Minister of Security and current libertarian senator Patricia Bullrich. ANDn 2009, the leader was arrested in the early morning of a road check in the Saavedra neighborhood, in the city of Buenos Aires, and subjected to a breathalyzer test that returned a result above the maximum allowed.after which they hijacked the car. Bullrich herself publicly defended her position at that time, questioning the mechanism and stating that she had barely consumed a drink during a previous dinner, and even joked about contradictory results of the measurements.
The episode went viral on social networks when, in a television interview, Patricia Bullrich humorously recounted that once his blood alcohol level “gave him 5.1… I mean, 0.5.”in a slip that sparked memes and comments about the confusion between figures and public perception around his experience with the breathalyzer test.
For now, the case of Bianco and Rolón reopens the discussion on the road safety, compliance with the zero alcohol law and the demand for equality before traffic regulationsissues that, beyond political alignments, impact citizen confidence in the application of the rules that govern coexistence and traffic.
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