08/31/2020 - 17:46
Clarín.com
Politics
Before his return to Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri had a meeting with Emmanuel Macron.
It was a lunch that took place a few days ago, which the former head of state attended with his family, and in which they talked about measures to combat the coronavirus and the
"balance" between health care for the population
and measures to limit the impact on the economy, as they let it transpire in the Macri environment.
Macron received Macri, his wife Juliana Awada and their daughter Antonia at the presidential residence, with his wife Brigitte.
The French leader spoke about his way of facing the coronavirus, different from the one arranged by Alberto Fernández in Argentina with
excessive restrictions
according to the view of the founder of the PRO.
“
The country cannot be stopped
because the collateral damage of the confinement is considerable.
Zero risk never exists in a society.
We must respond to this anxiety without falling into the doctrine of zero risk, "said Macron a few days ago, faced with a new rise in cases, while spending his holidays on the Côte d'Azur.
Macri also spent a few weeks off in that area, before traveling to Zurich for his role as president of the FIFA Foundation.
The former Argentine president was
involved in a controversy
with Alberto Fernández, due to a conversation between the two at the beginning of the quarantine.
According to the president, Macri suggested "leaving all the people in the street" and that
"those who had to die should die
.
"
Macri denied it with a letter: "The version he has given about our conversation is false."
Mauricio Macri, at the offices of the FIFA Foundation.
The crosses had already deepened when Macri supported the marches on August 17 with a message on social networks: "Proud of the thousands of Argentines who came out yesterday to say enough to fear and abuse, and
yes to work, respect and freedom
".
Macri had surprised when he traveled to Europe with his family, which generated criticism from the Government and also insiders at Juntos por el Cambio.
Even so, the former president maintained the centrality in the strategy of the opposition coalition, by participating in the virtual meetings of the national table.
"It has been shown that their intention is to
take everything ahead,
" he crossed to the Government on Monday at the meeting in which the referents supported the call to the deputies to be present this Tuesday in Congress.