Franco Macri and politics: Perón, Menem, Moyano, Chacho Alvarez and his son Mauricio

"You fell and you got up, you fell back and you got up, you can not get up the next time you fall, that's why I want you to advance the inheritance"he said in 1998 – more words, less words – Mauricio Macri to his father Franco, it was more than a reproach of the eldest son, according to Gregorio Chodos, who played the role of virtual family negotiator between the two (several times) of the current president to let him know that he was no longer under his wing and that he was planning to follow his own path: he had been president of Boca Juniors for three years and, on as soon as possible, he wanted to adjust his financial situation to get into politics.

Franco never understood his son's political vocation. In his vision, the state looks like a barrel with plenty of water available for one who has the talent to take it out. That's why, after the 2001 crisis, he told his friends "Argentina is dry" and he was looking for every possible way for his children to go live and do business in the United States. But he did not succeed. Their three children, Mauricio, Gianfranco and Mariano, continue to live in Argentina. Sandra, her daughter, pbaded away in 2014. Florencia, daughter of another relationship, lives between Argentina and Uruguay.

Since the time of the second presidency of Juan Domingo Perón, worked on the construction of a group of buildings with workers' apartments near the independent club grounds in Avellaneda, and its link with politics has always been oriented towards the creation of new businesses.

A friend told him Infobae the big difference between Franco Macri and Santiago Soldati when entering Casa Rosada. "Soldati wore gifts that he began to leave to the first secretary that he found, Macri did not look at anyone until he arrived at the presidential office, he did not look up, He was absolutely focused on what he was looking for and showed his exceptional sympathy only when he met with the president, "he said.

"Franco had a moment of weakness with Carlos Saúl MenemHe believed in his politics and was convinced that he was finally going to make things work in Argentina, but he later regretted having backed him because he had lost money. " , recalls a friend of that time.

In the 90s, SOCMA acquired Correo Argentino, with which it continued until 2003, when Néstor Kirchner became president. In November of the same year, Santa Cruz made the first nationalization of his government, claiming that the company did not pay the fees stipulated in the contract and had entered reorganization two years ago, which was true. As on other occasions, Franco was looking for a position of strength to negotiate, but the answer he got was not what he was expecting.

In 1998, Socma opened a model factory in Monte Grande for La Poste. However, during the nationalization, this property was never paid, which motivated a long trial that caused the first crisis of the Cambiemos government, since 2016. agreement that was challenged by the justice.

The memorosos remember that In April 2016, Franco hinted on Twitter that OCA was distributing drugs in its mailings. "When the post confiscated me for no reason, I thought it was a political decision.Today, I know it was to distribute more than just letters." he wrote. This was a comment addressed to Hugo Moyano, whose father's president always suspected that he had been the one who had convinced Kirchner to get him out of Correo Argentino. In any case, he was only encouraged to go in public with Mauricio to Casa Rosada and, apparently, the general secretary of the truckers union never forgot.

Curiously, the leader of the Moyano clan made a remark about Franco in the middle of the war with the government. "If I'm a prisoner, let him be in the cell next to Macri's father"He said on January 25th. A few days later, the businessman broke his hip.

Apart from Peronism, he had no relationship with the other partiesnot. He despised the radicals and repeatedly met Carlos "Chacho" Alvarez to ask him not to speak ill of him, but he never supported his campaign. He only promised to act with transparency if the Alliance won the elections. His way of supporting the former vice president of Fernando de la Rúa, which he privately rented, was to advise him to run for Peronism.who has moved away from radicalism.

In politics, Franco was an eminent pragmatist. One could say that he had a developmentalist profile, but that he was above all a pessimist who considered the Argentina does not have an arrangement. For that he never understood that his eldest son wanted to be president. "Why are you going to fight for something you will lose," he says again and again, convinced that he had no chance of reaching Casa Rosada without the support of Peronism. It was not the only time he had cheated on politics, that 's why his son did not consult him.

"I tried to be the best father possible. Maybe I put a stick too high on my expectations and what I had done. Perhaps, as Mauricio says, I competed with him when he became a man, "Franco wrote in a long public letter: He published a month after the arrival of his son at Casa Rosada in order to 39, explain the complex relationship with which became, on December 10, 2015, the first Argentine businessman to have managed to reach the presidency of the country.