The Buenos Aires head of government and presidential candidate, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, assured this Friday that if he is elected president,
he will eliminate more than half of the ministries
and spoke of reducing the State.
"There will be
less than half of those we have today
. There will be 10, 12, 8," Rodríguez Larreta answered without hesitation when asked about the number of national portfolios that would be in a hypothetical government of his.
In an interview with Radio Miter, he remarked that "the importance that a government gives to an issue, to a policy,
has nothing to do with the rank of the official
."
And he gave the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity as an example: "You can be the government that deals most with women in history without having a ministry."
They also asked him if, if he arrived at the Casa Rosada, he would seek to reduce the State.
"Well, the fact of halving the number of ministries reduces the number of officials, the number of advisors,
all of that reduces the State
," he added.
Mauricio Macri and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, together in La Angostura.
Rodríguez Larreta, who was the first of the leaders of Juntos por el Cambio to make his candidacy official, also assured that he will contest the internal one "against all those who present themselves," including Mauricio Macri.
"He has the right to decide (if he is a candidate or not). My candidacy decision does not depend on what others do, neither Mauricio Macri nor any other. I launched my candidacy regardless of what others do and I am going internally
against all those who present themselves, be it Macri, Vidal, Morales, Carrió
, whoever they are," said the Buenos Aires mayor without naming Patricia Bullrich, who expressed her intention to be a candidate and was the one who criticized him the most.
For Rodríguez Larreta, going to a PASO "is the healthiest and most democratic": "I feel that I am prepared, I have experience from many years of government," he insisted.
When asked about Bullrich, he avoided confrontation but insisted on the idea that "they are scammers" who pay for the crack.
Patricia Bullrich and Alfredo Cornejo during the grape harvest.
Photo: Jose Gutierrez / Los Andes
"I say that they are scammers because they know that with that attitude it may be convenient for them to collect one more vote, but they know that
with this we are sinking the country
," he said.
And he continued: "If knowing that
with this path there is more frustration or failure
and he insists on that, he is a scammer, he does not go."
In addition, and on whether he was bothered by the photos that the PRO president took with the radical leaders during the grape harvest festival in Mendoza, he replied that he does not believe much in "those agreements" and what counts is the vote of the people.
"I don't really believe in this agreement. The only agreement that counts is the vote of the people and I say it with respect," he said.
With the photo, Bullrich showed his intention to carry out an electoral agreement that includes many of the leaders of the UCR.
Along with her in Mendoza were Alfredo Cornejo, Rodolfo Suárez, Carolina Losada, Gastón Manes, Gustavo Valdés, Rodrigo de Loredo and Luis Naidenoff, among others.
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