MAR DEL PLATA.- With the sea of Playa Grande in the background and AC/DC rock as the soundtrack, Mauricio Macri returned to the political frontline. Facing more than 400 PRO leaders, activists, and officials, the former president dropped a phrase that set off all alarms: ‘The Adorni case does not allow us to comment on the progress the country has made.’ Immediately afterward, he vindicated his party as the sole guarantor of ‘change’ and issued a warning: ‘Populism returns, it destroys you and sets you back ten steps.’
Macri held nothing back. In a brief but explosive speech, he assured that PRO ‘does not destroy the trust that change needs’ and thus differentiated himself from Javier Milei’s administration. The move was clear: to present his space as the serious alternative to La Libertad Avanza, amid the earthquake shaking the government over the controversial appointment of Manuel Adorni as Chief of Cabinet.
‘In a tweet I said I disagreed with Adorni not because I’m clairvoyant, but because people for such a position should arrive based on background, not blind loyalty,’ Macri recalled, referring to his clash with Milei. And he concluded: ‘Let him be the best for the position and for change, and that wasn’t the case with Adorni.’ The former president also confirmed that he was invited to dinner by Milei at Olivos, in gratitude for the support during the libertarian government’s toughest week.
The event, dubbed ‘The Next Step,’ had a more moderate atmosphere than in other times. There were applause but few ovations. In the front rows were deputies Cristian Ritondo and Fernando De Andreis, Senator Guillermo Montenegro, former governor María Eugenia Vidal, and former vice president Gabriela Michetti. All heard the message of unity that Macri hammered home: ‘Where PRO governs, people live better.’
But not everything was rosy. Macri acknowledged internal turbulence, such as the resignation of Esteban Bullrich, and targeted Kirchnerism: ‘It has no moral authority to talk about these things, it’s shameless.’ And he called for work so that ‘never again does populism give us a mirage.’
Ritondo, for his part, was blunt: ‘Without PRO, there is no possible change in Argentina. And you cannot govern the country without governing the province of Buenos Aires.’ He described Axel Kicillof’s administration as ‘disastrous.’ De Andreis, meanwhile, made the bloc’s stance clear: ‘We must demand interpellation until Adorni leaves office.’
Macri closed with a slogan that sounded like a campaign: ‘We are not a step back, but the next step.’ The question hanging in the air is whether that step brings them closer to power or sinks them into infighting.
jaja macri llorando xq el caso adorni le tapa sus avances?? para mi esos avances son una mentira solo benefician a los ricos mientras el pueblo se caga de hambre el pro se desangra y estos lacras se van todos a la mierda
che pero macri tiene razon eh para mi el populismo nos va a destruir y estos zurdos de mierda solo saben tapar los logros con el caso adorni el pro tiene que marcar cancha ya no podemos dejar q los libertarios nos roben la escena vamos carajo firmado el loco de la rosada