Former Argentine presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich endorsed right-wing populist Javier Milei on Wednesday for next month’s runoff. She placed third in Sunday’s election behind Milei and Economy Minister Sergio Massa.
Former presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich, who placed third in the previous weekend’s elections, gives a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Former presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich, who placed third in the previous weekend’s elections, gives a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023.
Since Sunday’s vote there have been tensions within the center-right United for Change, the country’s main opposition coalition, about who its members would supportthat will decide who will lead South America’s second-largest economy that suffers from an annual inflation rate of almost 140% and rising poverty.
Some of the other elements in the coalition, mainly members of the more left-leaning Radical Civic Union, made clear in recent days they would not support Milei, awho has vowed to slash state spending and implement a plan to get rid of the local currency and dollarize the economy to deal with inflation.
“Coalitions, like political parties, are not designed to live forever. They exist as long as their members want them to,” Sanz said in a radio interview Wednesday.
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