Victoria Villarruel admitted that not everything in the ruling party is diplomacy.
And she did it with grace.
This Thursday she claimed to have a strong personality, like the President's sister,
Karina Milei
, and she thus marked that the relationship is flowing, but not without rispidities.
"Javier is in the middle, poor little ham
," said the vice president and left a very particular phrase about the role that remains for the head of state in the mediation he exercises before two strong women in his Government.
Villarruel laughed at his idea, but the message was clear, even said with humor.
"Karina has a lot of character, so do I,
we both love Javier
and we both want the best for Javier, in different areas of life. She is brave, but we get along well," the vice president later expressed in the interview given to TN .
Then, Villarruel surprised with
the metaphor of ham
to explain that Milei "is
in the middle
" of both, little more than to mediate between them and maintain a cordial relationship at the top of the Government.
"We are similar in some things, not in others," Villarruel added about Karina, the general secretary of the Presidency, suggesting that there are disputes between the decisions made in the Casa Rosada.
However, he did not take the differences to the extreme.
"Javier has Karina, but Karina was
working in the four-handed campaign,
I saw it, and if I
am vice president today, it is also because of Karina
," he conceded as a compliment.
"She's brave, but we get along well," he defined his relationship with the woman whom his brother, the President, calls "The Boss."
Days ago, the relationship between Milei and Villarruel experienced a peak of tension due to the actions of the vice in the treatment of the DNU in the National Senate.
After the document sent in December by Milei to Congress was rejected, a photo between the two hugging at the Government House tried to put cold cloths on the crossings on social networks.
The official voice that attacked the vice president the hardest was that of José Luis Espert.
And Villaruel also targeted the deputy.
Spicy response from Victoria Villarruel: "Espert, if you don't know, why do you give your opinion?"
The vice president first referred to the statements of José Luis Espert, a new member of La Libertad Avanza, about the
tax rebellion
that the inhabitants of the province of Buenos Aires should carry out due to the increase in taxes by the administration of Axel Kicillof.
She distanced herself from
his proposal.
"More than tax rebellion, it is that people will not be able to pay because they do not have money," the vice president began. "
People care zero
about tax rebellion or not," the campaign of the liberal now libertarian deputy minimized.
"I think that as an official I should not say it.
As a citizen you can say it, obviously, I said it when I was not a public official," she reprimanded him, passing to Espert.
Harsh response from Victoria Villarruel to José Luis Espert, close to Javier Milei.
Photo Press Presidency
Immediately, when asked about what citizens receive in exchange for the taxes they pay, Villarruel was blunt: "Until now the State has not given anything. Little and nothing. But we cannot resolve it in three months either. I am not justifying myself, but no "We can change this reality that has been going on for decades."
And then, the reproach.
Espert continued as the protagonist of the interview segment for having questioned whether the head of the Senate intended to "destabilize" the President or not.
"I didn't like it
," answered the vice president and responded directly to the deputy: "Espert, if you don't know,
why do you think?
All good, but did you come to ask me something,
did you talk to me in the last few months
? It seemed like the
typical phrase to me.
firecracker
," he concluded.
At the end of the topic, she asked herself
why she would have that intention
if she is part of the management.
"What am I going to want to
destabilize if I am in this Government
? We are all in trouble. I
want Javier to serve four years
, if he wants to renew, he can do it," he made it clear to those who doubt his intentions.
And she argued, "I
am the main person interested in not wanting to take on a situation of that style,
under those conditions. No way. I want the President to be successful. I said it before, being president does not bother me. I feel extremely honored being vice president,
in no way am I considering anything else
."
For the future, however, Villarruel has another look.
"I want them to say 'what a flower of a vice president she was
' when Victoria Villarruel's term ends
. That's what I would most like to be said about me.
And be president?
To this, Villarruel responded: "I don't know, it doesn't keep me awake. It will be what it has to be because all I want is to serve Argentina... I
don't rule it out, it doesn't keep me awake either
."
The vice president asked Cristina Kirchner to "call for silence"
Victoria Villarruel spoke about her most immediate predecessor in office, Cristina Kirchner, and said that "silence should be called
if she is going to say issues that are dismissal
."
"I feel that there are
statements that are scandalous
in the mouths of the political class or of figures like the former president. In no way can it be an option for a government that is not even four months old to have these dismissal rumors," he complained.
In addition, she recalled that, as a pensioner, the leader of Kirchnerism "
earns more than 7 times what a senator earns
" and reaffirmed that she does not want to be like her.
Cristina Kirchner and Juan Grabois, together, at the Instituto Patria, and in the sights of Victoria Villaruel.
"
They met here five times
last year. Maybe less," he said about CFK's time in the Senate.
And then he insisted on his
difference with Cristina: "I show my face
. "
Villarruel also spoke, in another segment of the interview, about Juan Grabois' initiative to impeach
the President "for insanity"
and responded with a
fierce counterattack
against the social leader and former candidate to become head of state from within. K.
"I don't know,
maybe he's the insane one
," he shot and then added: "I don't know, I don't know him. But every time he
talks about me
, he gives his opinion
with a lightness
that, sincerely, deserves
to be demonstrated at some point in time." Courts
because
talking nonsense doesn't have to be free
.
In that sense, he maintained that
he does not rule out suing him
, although he reflected: "Maybe it is giving too much importance to a person who, honestly,
I don't know what credibility he has in society
. At least he doesn't deserve any to me."
When she was reminded that she was part of the presidential intern in the Frente de Todos, in which she competed with Sergio Massa, the vice president smiled and returned to the fray: "Here
we had every candidate...
I'm searching my brain for
someone who has "It's been quite ridiculous
, but Grabois is almost
in the top three
."
D.S.