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Immersed in the election campaign, President Mauricio Macri again led the military parade of the 203rd anniversary of independence, as he had done for the first time in his term. The celebration that was suspended last year due to an insufficient budget included, a month later, the deployment of more than 4,000 uniformed war tanks, helicopters and aircrafts. Military aircraft in uniform on Libertador Avenue. In the official gallery, in addition to the ministers, was the senator in defense and the candidate for vice-president Miguel Pichetto. Macri left before the end to witness the wake of Fernando de la Rúa. He therefore did not applaud the ex-carapintada Aldo Rico, who marched as a Malvinas veteran.

Already without the cold polar days of the last days, thousands of people participated in Buenos Aires, north of the parade of soldiers, gendarmes, prefects, policemen, horses and dogs that the government of Cambiemos returned with great pomp in 2016, but not it has not reiterated following years, the latest "budget reasons" claimed and against the backdrop of the huge rejection causing the signing of the agreement with the International Monetary Fund and the small salary increase granted to people in uniform.

Macri returned quickly from Tucumán where, at the first hour, he took part in official acts at the Historical House and shared the official box in front of Plaza Holanda with his partner, Juliana Awada. Vice-President Gabriela Michetti was on her right and on her left the brand new acquisition of Peronist origin. There was also Chief of Staff Marcos Peña, Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie, Defense Ministers Oscar Aguad, Security Patricia Bullrich and Interior Rogelio Frigerio, among others.

The heavenly Argentine flags hanging from the balconies of the aristocratic Libertador Avenue was reinforced yesterday by one of the militant anti-rights handkerchiefs, mingled with green berets, verdeoliva uniforms or even kaki prefects and commandos made and camouflaged under pasture. fake to the delight of Michetti, who could not resist the temptation to record them with his mobile phone.

At the head were the troops of the army, the navy, the air force, the federal police, the gendarmerie and the prefecture. Behind the trumpets, drums and drums paraded in front of the uniform and behind the vehicles of war: tanks, jeeps, gummies and trucks to expose the radars and the drones.

– A shooter from this tank is coming out of the earth's surface – explained a two-year-old boy to his father while he was exceeding a volume of two and a half tons, reported the Telam agency. In the absence of locro, empanadas or cakes, some children took pictures with soldiers.

Behind a flag with the caption "Malvinas, we will come back" veterans, some with berets and vests, others in uniform. One of the groups had Rico in the front row in a wheelchair and with the smile of always. Macri was no longer in the box to applaud the old carapintada that puzzled the government of Raúl Alfonsín but was applauded by Peña, Aguad, Bullrich and Senator Pinedo, among others. Unlike three years ago, he was not accompanied by former Lieutenant Colonel Emilio Nani, a prisoner of crimes against humanity. The genocide apologist, Cecilia Pando, walked with women repressors disillusioned with the impunity with which they were abused in 2015 and who never arrived. "Very well the military parade," he later wrote on Twitter, where he noticed that "the only thing that was missing was the national anthem and the words of the president."