Everyone knows that Mauricio Macri has a reputation for being annoying. There was a reason why Diego Maradona baptized him “Cartonero Báez” due to his lack of propensity to open his wallet during the times they shared in Boca. For some reason he wanted to lower coach Carlos Bianchi’s salary after having won the Libertadores and the Intercotinetal Cup. Or for some reason, as president, he strove to give that caricature even more significance. In winter, if it was cold and gas multiplied its price, the “Cartonero” recommended not using it and also not “walking around in a T-shirt and on your legs.” In summer, when the heat became unbearable, he asked everyone to set the air conditioning to 24 degrees, not one less. If the food increased too much, he advised not buying it so that the merchants would reconsider. He also did not want Argentines to use the car if they did not agree with the gasoline increases because the bicycle, in short, was healthier and polluted less. In addition, he maintained that it would be necessary to work on Saturdays and Sundays.
For the “Cartonero” mooring, one could live perfectly without gas, gasoline, air conditioning or top supermarket brands, and above all working seven days a week (nothing very different from today’s speech).
Politically, Macri is the same: he doesn’t give anything to anyone either. Confirmation of this proverbial stinginess has just come from two former traveling companions of his, the top of the list on the libertarian ballots of the City and the Province, Patricia Bullrich and Diego Santilli. Coming from the PRO, but today painted in violet, both were waiting for even a minimal gesture from their former boss for Sunday’s elections. Something, a blessing, a wink, a show of support no matter how small. But no: there was nothing. Zero. Pure indifference.
Hours ago, Macri said the only thing he had to say about the candidates of the alliance that he sealed with La Libertad Avanza in these elections. He wrote this on his X account: “My vote is for Fernando de Andreis, he will be a great PRO deputy.” And when everyone expected him to extend his support to others, he continued talking about his only favorite: “I have known Fernando since he was a boy. He was born into politics with me, even before founding the PRO. At a very young age he was a legislator and later accompanied me as Secretary General of the Presidency.” End.
De Andreis is in fifth place! on the Buenos Aires ballot of candidates for deputy of the alliance between violets and yellows, and is, in addition, a kind of all-terrain assistant for Mauricio. No one else got his blessing. And that Santilli and Bullrich have a long history with the former president, for years and years, and that the second was even his candidate in the yellow team in which Macri played against Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (another who could talk at length about the meanness of his former boss).
But there is something else. When the libertarians, taking into account that they had signed an alliance with him, asked Macri to join the campaign and show his face, the engineer replied that he had to travel around Europe due to his obligations with the FIFA Foundation, which could not be postponed. A former president dispensed with.
In reality, what he is trying to do with his calculated coldness is to separate himself from Milei if what ensues is a humiliating defeat. Seeks to preserve itself: mooring in its purest form.
