The exalted triumphal speech of the mayor of Córdoba and governor-elect Martín Llaryora after the victory of Daniel Passerini as communal chief of the capital, where he remarked: "Enough of them coming to explain to us what to do and what not to do the pituquitos of Recoleta", generated a strong repercussion in Buenos Aires and the president expanded his definition.
"What I ask the Buenos Aires leaders is not to stay with the 'pituquitos,' not to be offended by that and listen to everything I said. You are the ones who think about the country from Recoleta and you cannot continue to offend the entire interior, because for decades you have been keeping our resources and then you come to explain to us how it is governed," Llaryora said in a dialogue with La Voz del Interior.
In his usual calm tone, far from the euphoria of the triumph against the radical Rodrigo De Loredo, who had Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich in his bunker, Llaryora tried to qualify his statements.
"Pituco is a term I always use, it's used in my family. I didn't mean to offend, it came out like that. It was a triumph that overwhelmed us, and it had been months enduring that some guys come to explain transportation to us that the Nation administers transportation and covers subsidies, "he said.
And he argues about his anger: "They tried to confuse the people of Cordoba with the transfer of the police, the same ones to whom we pay thousands of federal police, to whom the Prefecture takes care of Puerto Madero and the Gendarmerie takes care of the parks."
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I do not tolerate that discrimination within and I no longer bank that those same leaders come to Cordoba to tell us that we do not know how to administer, that we do not know how to govern, that they are the Maradona of life and those of us from the interior are all fools. "
Martín Llaryora with the mayor-elect Daniel Passerini. Photo: La Voz
And about the Buenos Aires neighborhood he chose to criticize the leaders of Buenos Aires, he clarified: "I spoke of Recoleta as a symbol of a porteño that the porteños themselves question. Cristina Kirchner also lives in Recoleta, I question the extreme centralism of the last governments."
"I defend a much broader and much more federal idea of a country, which is the idea expressed by Juan Schiaretti as a presidential candidate: do not think about what I said anymore or look for other political meanings," Llaryora said.
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They keep the word 'pituquitos', but I talked about very concrete things: return the resources of the withholdings to the interior, release the transportation subsidies that remain in the Amba to the whole country, distribute the federal forces that are only in Buenos Aires and think about the infrastructure that the whole country needs. Let's put equity and then see who manages better, "emphasized the governor-elect.
Horacio Rodriguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich in the bunker of Juntos por el Cambio in Córdoba. Photo: Fernando de la Orden
And he concluded with a critique of the look on the inside: "So they see everything, everything that is inside is a fiefdom or is backward. The provinces are feudal if the people decide with their vote that the same party continues, but in Caba that is very good. That's what I question when I talk about the biased way they look inside."
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