Patricia Bullrich, an ‘iron lady’ who will seek to be the president of Argentina

Doctor of Political Science authentic ‘iron lady’ of Argentine politics, will seek to become president, after prevailing this Sunday in the internal opposition coalition (center-right) Together for Change thanks to those who want her to impose “order” in the South American country.

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By a difference of 1.3 million votes, won the internal fight against the mayor of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larretawith a more moderate profile within the opposition coalition and the Pro (Republican Proposal), the party that both share with former Argentine president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019).

Until April of this year, Bullrich held the presidency of the Pro, a position he left to be able to concentrate on his electoral campaign.

During the four years that Macri ruled, She was Minister of Security and her “strong hand” doctrine generated great controversy by giving police forces greater freedom of action to repress protests and the use of firearms.

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Under his charge, the security forces were involved in cases such as the disappearance (and subsequent discovery of the corpse) of the artisan Santiago Maldonado and the death of the Mapuche Rafael Nahuel. Both died after police evictions and generated further agitation in a part of Argentine society.

Despite the controversies, he always had the support of Macriwho, although not expressly, showed his closeness in the present elections.

beginnings

Bullrich, 67, started in the public service in 1993 as a deputy and in 1999 it became part of the Government of Fernando de la Rúaof the Radical Civic Union (UCR), which would end with the economic crisis of 2001.

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Recognized as the first woman to occupy the Secretary of Criminal Policy and Penitentiary Affairs of the Ministry of Justice, gained notoriety for relieving 112 jailers who facilitated the release of prisoners to commit crimes.

In 2000, he would go to the Ministry of Labor and a year later to the Ministry of Social Security, where he would last a month in office. In that period he would promote projects to eliminate social assistance to workers who earn more than 1,000 dollars and he would promote a plan of “union transparency”which required union leaders to submit sworn income statements.

Near the end of the radical government, in whose management unemployment grew from 15 to 25%, promoted and signed a decree to reduce the salaries of state workers by 13%.

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Bullrich would stay away from politics until 2007, when He created his own party to compete for mayor of Buenos Aires. After finishing fourth, she would return to the National Congress as a legislator until she joined the ranks of the PRO.

Against insecurity and public spending

Bullrich traveled a large part of the territory assuring the ordinary citizen that it will end with one of the daily disorders that Argentines must deal with: the pickets and protests in the streets.

“Those who make pickets will not be able to collect social plans. with me this ends”, he stated throughout his campaign.

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His priorities focus on the fight against drug trafficking and insecurity. To this end, it intends to create a Police, dedicated exclusively to criminal intelligence, to stop organized crime gangs and build special prisons for drug traffickers.

With regard to inflation, the main scourge of the country, which currently reaches almost 116%, Bullrich would seek to implement measures that give independence to the Central Bank and present budgets without deficitas well as a state reform to reduce public spending.

He had assured that if she is elected president will maintain the “most austere state that Argentines remember”and he would set an example by keeping his house instead of moving to the Quinta de Olivos (presidential residence).

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“The public employee is a servant of the people, he cannot live off the people with his money and have all the privileges. Enough, it’s over”, he had said in one of his last campaign acts.

Now she will try to become the third president of Argentina, after María Estela Martínez ‘Isabelita’ de Perónwho assumed the line of succession upon the death of her husband, Juan Domingo Perón, in July 1974, and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchnerwho obtained two electoral victories in 2007 and 2011 to add two terms (2007-2015).

Source: Elcomercio

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