Elisa Carrió sent a message to the Juntos for Change intern: “I don't trust anyone except the Civic Coalition”

Elisa Carrió left last week's cryptic Twitter messages and spoke with all the lyrics. “I'm disappointed. I've been used. Today I don't trust anyone except the Civic Coalition,” were some of the strongest definitions he gave last night, at a virtual press conference after giving a course on “crisis of the parental function in the present day” at the Hannah Arendt Institute. He pointed to the Juntos por el Cambio intern and put some names and surnames that he had avoided days ago.

The criticism crystallized the unease that the leader of the Civic Coalition has with the opposition leaders in the face of the debate on the agreement with the IMF in Deputies. He talks about leaders who “want to be presidents but don't want to take responsibility” and questions whether the main opposition parties have flirted with default. “Argentina could play a historic role that those who took the debt would not even authorize financing. It was suicide,” he said.

The opposition leader answered questions from Infobae, La Nación, Clarín and Perfil after the course she gave with Professor Silvia Ormaechea on fatherhood, where she spoke about “witness as a singular act and embodiment of the law and desire alliance”. He said it will be the last time he speaks until after Holy Week and he vindicated the role he played in bringing out the law that enabled the Government to sign the agreement with the Fund: “I fulfilled a duty, there can be no ostentation of political duty, I don't want revenues.”

The former deputy pronounced on at least three times her “deep and painful disappointment” and targeted those who “want to be presidents but do not want to be responsible”. In that sense, he spoke of facing a “sense of moral tiredness, in the face of the corrupt way of thinking about convenience, rather than right” and stressed that “a small party like the Civic Coalition had to take over the role of the father.”

“I was confident that leaders would emerge after the election but they suspended history based on their own personal interests. One example is that we put forward: we are going to honor this debt to the Fund, because not paying makes us an international pariah. We said we are going to avoid a default, because it would be the biggest tax for the middle class, because we were going to win two dollars,” he said.

After that, Carrió sent his warning to the inside of Together for Change: “I don't trust anyone today except the Civic Coalition.”

The opposition leader stressed that the strategy of presenting a bill that would allow the Government to have the law that authorizes the agreement with the IMF without, at the same time, assuming the economic policies agreed with the agency, first, was discussed with the PRO. “I proposed it to someone in the PRO, but I realized I was going to manipulate it,” he said.

In that context, Carrió pointed out those who voted against: “López Murphy's no is inexplicable,” he said and also mentioned José Luis Espert. “They ended up voting with La Campora and with the left,” he said. However, he stressed that having collected more than 200 votes in favor was a “terrible defeat” for Vice President Cristina Kirchner.

“Those who said were NOT the ones who wanted everything to blow up, at terrible social cost. Some didn't live in 2001, but I saw crazy people on the street (...) These are acts of irresponsibility and opportunism, while we believe that credibility must be built against anyone, because otherwise we are leading to an unviable Argentina.”

Disappointment and criticism of JxC

“I've been used. They look at me but they don't listen to me, many care about the personal project. I have given a lot of advice, but then they do what they want, from that lack of respect I don't know how it turns out. What I'm saying is that I don't keep quiet anymore.” The phrase surprised by its harshness and pointed to the internal opposition, who was agitated with jerks among the founding parties in the midst of the debate over the agreement with the IMF.

Anyway, Carrió also targeted the national government for its negotiation of refinancing the $44 billion debt. “Guzmán is a terrible official,” the leader said, but disengaged President Alberto Fernández from her criticism. “We have to support the president. Sustain institutionally. Those who played at the worst best gave Cristina air to turn to the President,” he said.

“We have to come to a free and disputed election. We are in a system of alternation in power and the opposition has to be responsible,” Carrió said and sent a new warning: “Nobody thinks that the election is won, because in times of crisis anything can come out.”

War on inflation and violence in Congress

During the virtual press conference, Infobae asked him about the President's announcement of starting a “war on inflation” and violence in Congress during the treatment of the agreement with the IMF. “The president lacks the ability to understand the problems. I ask that someone in the government has to put some rationality. An increase in withholding cannot be done because we are all going to go out. The countryside, which is the only successful activity in Argentina, cannot be punished any longer,” he replied.

Regarding the violent incidents in front of the Legislative Palace, Carrió replied: “What happened to the policeman who was thrown a Molotov bomb is appalling. It is the degradation of the figure of the law. All violence is terrible: struggle is one thing, the dynamic struggle for truth and justice, but the left must be democratic and dispute power, believe in liberal democracy.”

“In Chile there is a democratic left and we must look at that example. With the Molotov where it leads them is subsidized unemployment. About what Cristina said about that: there were hers, not us. We have to stop dealing with Cristina, there were 202 votes in favor of negotiating. This is a crushing defeat,” he said, adding: “He has to leave the role of victim. The victim is not her, she is in the Senate and has impunity.”

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