Horacio Rodríguez Larreta analyzed Javier Milei's management and pointed against the PRO: "One thing is to support and another is a blank check"

Former Buenos Aires City Government Chief Horacio Rodríguez Larreta confirmed on Radio Con Vos his candidacy for legislator in the 2025 elections and left definitions on Jorge Macri 's administration in the City of Buenos Aires and the direction of Javier Milei 's government at the national level.

"If I am going to be a legislator, deputy or senator, my electorate is in the City, the people of Buenos Aires vote for me. It is starting from the bottom, it is what I have to do," Larreta said about his return to the electoral competition. In that sense, he acknowledged that at another time he would have avoided talking about candidacies so far in advance, but that the current political scenario led him to define his position: "In another life I would have told you that it is not time for candidacies, but I don't know. I went out to speak because the electoral process has already been defined."

Larreta, who was in charge of the Buenos Aires Executive between 2015 and 2023, questioned the management of his successor and considered that the City shows a deterioration. "I find that the City is not well, I find what we all find. Sometimes you have to say that the king is naked and the king is naked. People in the City tell me that it is dirty, that there are no changes, there are no significant works, that their problems are not solved, that prisoners escape from police stations," he said.

In that sense, he acknowledged that his focus on the 2023 presidential campaign led him to neglect the future of the City of Buenos Aires: "I was so focused on the presidential campaign and I underestimated the continuity in the City, that's the truth."

Although Larreta acknowledged the importance of the economic stability achieved by Milei's government, he pointed out differences regarding the way in which the adjustment is being carried out. "The issue of economic stability is fine. Could we have done it with a scalpel and not a chainsaw? Surely yes. But it does not detract from the value of stability and lowering inflation," he stressed.

However, he was blunt in rejecting some of the President's positions: "I do not agree with a President coming to impose the culture that a country should have and much less with insults. I do not agree with the destruction of public property. There is no country in the world that works like this."

Along the same lines, he expressed his disagreement with Milei's economic vision: "Structurally I do not agree with this Government, beyond the stability that is good. I do not agree with the direction. I think Argentina needs an industrial development model so that it has added value."

Finally, he highlighted the strength of the Argentine democratic system and valued the possibility that a figure without a traditional structure could have reached the Presidency: "I have a lot of faith in the Argentines and we defend democracy like no one else. Democracy allowed a man who had no structure to reach the Presidency, as is the case with Milei."

Rodríguez Larreta also referred to the situation of the PRO and expressed his concern about the direction of the party, which seemed to be moving away from its original values. "I am very sorry about the loss of identity. There is a loss of defining what we believe in and what we do not believe in. The PRO was a party that never attacked those who thought differently and we respected an opposition that, at times, was very virulent," he lamented.

He also criticised the lack of coherence within the space: “I don’t understand why we changed. In reality, many people left those values ​​and that led to a loss of identity. That same week, a statement from the PRO was issued asking for a thorough investigation into what happened with the criptogate. Two days later, everyone voted against setting up an investigative commission.”

Larreta also pointed out the ambiguous stance of some leaders within the party: "The most difficult thing is those who are in the middle, who support, but do not support, who support without question. One can be constructive in the opposition, but we were voted in to be the opposition. One thing is to support things that are useful and another is a blank check."

Finally, he was categorical about his continuity within the space and left a reflection on the evolution of the PRO in recent years: "I did not leave the PRO, they left."