Former presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich will step down as president of her party

The former candidate for President of the Republic Argentina per Together for Change (center right), Patricia Bullrichwill not continue to preside over the Republican Proposal (Pro) party, which makes up that coalition, after the internal elections that will take place at the beginning of February 2024.

“My decision is not to run for a new term. I will dedicate all my effort, energy and time to work for a Argentina prosperous and safe“, guaranteed the president of the training since 2020 in a message published on her social networks.

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The former candidate met today with the elected president of Argentina, the libertarian Javier Mileito discuss the composition of the next Executive of the South American country.

Sources of Advances of Freedomthe far-right political force led by Milei, confirmed to EFE that Bullrich’s vision in terms of security – an area in which he was minister during the Government of Mauricio Macri (2015-2019)- “was heard” by the economist and his team.

In recent days, the Argentine press has considered the former candidate’s entry into the Milei Executive, once again as Minister of Security.

The relationship between the two changed throughout the last campaign.

Before the first round, the libertarian accused the center-right of being a “bomb launcher stack”, during his time as a member of a left-wing Peronist guerrilla organization that operated in Argentina in the seventies.

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Later, when Milei became the only option for the opposition to Kirchnerism to occupy the Pink HouseBullrich and Macri publicly supported the libertarian.

In 2005, former president Mauricio Macri, then businessman and president of the Buenos Aires football club Boca Juniors, founded Pro under the name Commitment to Change.

In 2008, as head of the city government of good airthe party changed its name to Republican Proposal and from then on it became the main political force of the Argentine opposition to Peronism until Milei’s landing.

Pro, unquestionably dominated by the figure of its founder, was part of the different electoral coalitions for the presidential elections in 2015, 2019 (under the name of Let’s change) and 2023 (as Together for Change).

He only won in 2015, when Macri became president of the South American country for a period of four years, until he was defeated by the Peronist. Alberto Fernández.

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Her electoral successor, Bullrich herself, was also unable to overcome the sudden libertarian hurricane and the fratricidal conflicts within her own party, which pitted her against the outgoing mayor of the capital, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.

After the provincial elections held this year, the Together for Change coalition, of which Pro is part, will govern in nine provinces in the interior of Argentina and in the country’s capital.

Furthermore, men close to Macri, such as the future Minister of Economy, Luis Caputohave already been confirmed by Milei as members of his next Government, in which the space of the former president and Bullrich will play a central role, in addition to their legislative support being necessary to guarantee governability.

Source: Elcomercio

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