The "peeled" Esteban Trebucq was at the center of the controversy for a survey that he broadcast live in his program on the A24 news channel, from La Matanza, where several of his interviewees had bottles of Fanta and said they were going to vote in the next elections for President for the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (PRO, in Together for Change).
"Taking Fanta in moderation, produces a vote for Larreta," said Deputy Victoria Villarruel, pre-candidate for vice president of La Libertad Avanza, who stole that message from her political boss Javier Milei and put a screenshot of the Trebucq poll on A24.
Deputy Hernan Lombardi caught on in the controversy, with a dart towards Larreta. "I don't take Fanta. I don't like artificial. I prefer authentic flavors," said the referent of the space that promotes the presidential candidacy of Patricia Bullrich (PRO, in JxC).
"Colossally artificial Fanta drink. The porteños prefer the beer, "said Deputy Ricardo López Murphy (United Republicans, in JxC), pre-candidate for head of the Buenos Aires Government, who also supports Bullrich. He said it on his Twitter account, with a winking emoji and a photo of himself in a bar with a joint of beer.
Sources close to the Buenos Aires mayor told Clarín that he surprised them "just like everyone else and caught our attention, since it is a campaign style with which we do not agree. We take it with humor and continue working like every day."
Along the same lines, Eduardo Macchiavelli, secretary of Federal Projection of the government of the city of Buenos Aires and one of the main shipowners in the provinces of Larreta's candidacy, took a photo with a Fanta, in an ironic key, as a sign of support for the head of the Buenos Aires Government.
The controversy occurred because the journalist Trebucq went out this Tuesday night to interview people in the central square of San Justo, in La Matanza, to ask them which candidate they are going to vote for President of the Nation.
Of the 46 people Trebucq interviewed throughout 40 minutes of his program, there were four who said they were going to vote for Rodríguez Larreta and had bottles of soda in their hands. Three of them had Fanta and one Sprite. But it is assumed that five people were the "false interviewees", because the one from the Sprite was accompanied by another who also said he voted for Larreta.
In fact, in a video that Buenos Aires legislator Ramiro Marra (La Libertad Avanza) viralized, it is clearly seen when, behind Trebucq, a man distributes those bottles to several people and beckons them to move away from the place where the journalist was.
"A lot of Larreta, a lot of Milei and a lot of Cristina," said "el pelado" Trebucq, throughout the interviews he was conducting in La Matanza.
Eduardo Macchiavelli, secretary of Federal Projection of the government of the city of Buenos Aires and one of the main shipowners in the provinces of Larreta's presidential candidacy, took a photo with a Fanta, as a sign of support for the head of the Buenos Aires Government.
However, it was the journalist himself who highlighted the strange situation of the people who had the bottle in their hands, both during the interviews and afterwards, when they returned to the studio floor in their program La Cruel Verdad. But there he assured that he preferred to leave the whole note unedited, so as not to cut any part, since they had done it a while before going on air.
"At the time I was struck by the red soda ones, so I'm going to take them out of the count. This is live. The one who approaches, I go and ask him. I noticed. I have a boludo face, but I noticed. There are three or four votes, we are going to take them out, because surely there was some tarambana who told them 'che, the peeled one is there', go. But when it's live, it's like that," Trebucq said on the same show Tuesday night, when they cut interviews for a commercial break.
Even at the end of the whole block of interviews, Trebucq returned to talk about the subject with his fellow journalists of the study. "Let's take out the ones from the Fanta, that is already clarified. If a boludo comes and puts people behind me, I can't... But I realized it right away. We took out the ones from Fanta," he said.
The result of the survey
Beyond that situation, of the "false interviewees" with the Fanta, the result of the poll that Trebucq did gave Javier Milei the winner with 11 votes. Many young people said they will vote for the Libertarian leader and also several older people.
Very close to Milei was the Frente de Todos, with 10 votes, of which eight were for Vice President Cristina Kirchner (one said it could be "Alberto or Cristina"), another "to the PJ" and the rest to "someone from the Government."
Further back was Rodríguez Larreta, with four votes, not counting the other five "invented". And in last place was Patricia Bullrich, with one vote, out of the 41 real respondents.
The other 15 interviewees did not choose candidates: there were six who said they do not know who they are going to vote for, five said they are not going to vote for anyone, two blank, one does not vote and another said he will put "a drawing" inside the envelope to have the vote annulled.
The mayor of La Matanza is Fernando Espinoza (Frente de Todos), who won in 2019 with 64.2% of the votes, compared to 25% of Together for Change, 5.4% of the Lavagnista Federal Consensus and 3.7% of the Left Front.
In the last elections, of 2021, the FdT fell to 46.6%, while JxC advanced to 28.3%, the FIT reached 9.7% and Avanza Libertad, of José Luis Espert -who at that time was shown next to Milei-, was fourth with 7.2% of the votes.
Buenos Aires legislator Ramiro Marra, pre-candidate for head of the Buenos Aires government of La Libertad Avanza, published a video in which a person is seen, behind Trebucq, distributing the bottles of soda to several boys, whom he tells to stay away from each other.
"The caste in action, here you can see perfectly the pointer of Larreta who delivered a Fanta to each person who was going to speak in the note of Trebucq in favor of Larreta. Capable something they did not notice: NOBODY had opened their bottle of Fanta, "said the legislator of the Milei front, on his Twitter account, with an emoji laughing at the end.
In addition, legislator Marra put a meme, which he titled "Larreta's new drink", where a can of Fanta is seen, but instead of its traditional brand it reads "Chanta". And another where he said that "before it was for chori and coca. Now it's because of Fanta."
The situation was taken advantage of by some militant journalists to fall on the "peeled" Trebucq, such as Diego Brancatelli: "What a piece of paper and how unworthy is the peeled this trabuco," he said, making a play on words between the surname of the A24 journalist and the predecessor weapon of the shotgun.
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