Mauricio Macri has been invited to be part of the Club …

The ex-president Mauricio Macri was invited to be part of the Madrid club, a forum of former presidents with 112 members, including José María Aznar from Spain; Sebastián Piñera, from Chile; and Vicente Fox from Mexico, all good friends of Macri. The group, however, also includes Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev, among other international references. Macri took every opportunity to reposition himself on the public agenda And this will not be the exception: he will accept the invitation and appoint a man in whom he trusts to continue his relations with the Club.

Club de Madrid is defined as a forum of former leaders whose objective is to “Strengthen leadership and democratic institutions, necessary for the progress of societies, development and the well-being of citizens ”. In addition, according to its website, “it promotes consensus towards positive change between key political and social actors, supporting processes of transition and democratic consolidation in the Middle East region, in the Horn of Africa, as well as in Bolivia, Haiti, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Serbia, South Africa and East Timor ”. They are also working on the << prevention of violent extremism, global governance and climate change, among others “.

The forum includes the last president of the Soviet Union and a former Democratic president of the United States, also Felipe González (Spain), Michelle Bachelet (Chile), Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazil), Julio María Sanguinetti (Uruguay), Belisario Betancour (Colombia), Ricardo Lagos (Chile), Romano Prodi (Italy), Felipe Calderón (Mexico), Horst Köhler (Germany), José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (Spain), to name just a few of the 112 members.

Macri received a letter of invitation on Tuesday morning, signed by former Slovenian President Danilo Türk. Not only is the former Argentine president determined to accept, but he already has the man for the job: Fulvio Pompeo, Former secretary for strategic relations in the Cambiemos government and still in charge of PRO’s international relations. It was, during Macri’s years as president, a sort of chancellor in the shadows.

The letter Macri received filled him with flowers. “His experience as Head of Government of Buenos Aires, Member of Parliament and, of course, as President of Argentina, would greatly enrich our organization and our ability to continue to strengthen democracy, democratic values ​​and leadership. in today’s particularly difficult and uncertain context. “. He makes no allusion to the economic crisis with which his government ended. In addition, Macri brought up a fact: he is the second former Argentine president to join Club de Madrid. The first was Raúl Alfonsín, incorporated in 2002.

The Club of Madrid was created in October 2001, at a meeting of 35 presidents and prime ministers which gave shape to this organization. Its owner, Türk, has stated in various reports that “sometimes populism it is another name for a bad nationalism which comes from the past and which is reborn in places like Italy, Hungary, and alternatives must be sought ”. And also him regime in Venezuela He is involved in drug trafficking, crime, with all kinds of social pathologies. Maybe that’s why they went looking for Macri.