Former President Mauricio Macri appealed once again to the genre that he has practiced the most: the public letter.
A few minutes before Cristina Kirchner spoke in the framework of the 20th anniversary of the triumph of Néstor Kirchner, the PRO leader maintained that there were two decades "of a wasted opportunity."
"In April 2003, we Argentines had an enormous opportunity. But we wasted it,"
begins the text published on the former president's social networks.
While the text was released, the vice president is minutes away from taking the stage of the Teatro Argentino de la Plata where she will give a "master class" to present the School of Government of the Justicialista Party that will bear the name Néstor Kirchner.
The complete letter from Mauricio Macri
"We had managed to get out of the worst crisis in our history and we were beginning, after much pain, to recover. It was an impoverished and shaken country, but also with low inflation, a reasonable exchange rate, public accounts in order (with surpluses! !), abundant power and recent infrastructure.
In addition, the citizenry was demanding a renewal of the political culture. After "they all go away", he was asking the politicians for more honesty, more transparency and a clearer intention to work to solve his problems.
We had everything to grow without the vices that had haunted us for decades. It had cost us more suffering than necessary, but finally we seemed ready to grow, with a strong and solid democracy and economy.
However, on April 27, 2003, 20 years ago today, Néstor Kirchner won the presidential elections. And all that promise came to nothing.
Economically, it is true that for a few years the economy grew, but soon we returned to chronic inflation, a capitalism for friends with a lot of corruption, an increasingly closed economy and less and less energy and investment. We throw away the initial opportunity.
Politically, Kirchner's victory began a style of government that became increasingly intolerant and manipulative, the origin of what was later called the crack. The intervention in INDEC, the changes in the Judicial Council, tolerance (or complicity) with drug trafficking, international isolation, attacks against Justice and the media would mark the Kirchner era.
As they began to run out of results, the story grew as the only possible product. They created a stifling political atmosphere, in which dialogue and cooperation became impossible.
We are celebrating 20 years of this way of looking at the economy and understanding the political culture, which we tried to change during our government but we only succeeded halfway. Twenty wasted years, in which we could have built an economy based on firm foundations and a democracy supported by institutions and the rule of law. But we didn't.
The positive side of all this is that these 20 years are coming to an end. There will be no more years of Kirchnerism, beyond what the electoral result says. The dominance of Kirchnerism over Peronism and over Argentine politics will end in 2023. And a new opportunity opens, similar to that of 2003, to change the economic regime and lay firm foundations for 20-year growth. I am sure that this time we are not going to waste it."
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