Popular mobilization revives Macri's career towards re-election in Argentina | Argentina

President Mauricio Macri believes that, despite the great advantage of the Peronist Alberto Fernández, he can still be re-elected. Several thousand Argentines, who came down Saturday in the street to shout "Yes, you can," are also rushing on the issue. At a critical juncture, with an IMF delegation in Buenos Aires to badess the consequences of the new weight loss and with the election campaign about to be revived, Macri is about to fight until he reaches the end. at the last day.

In general, it is the political forces that mobilize people. But this time, it did not happen. It was the reverse. While Macri and the leaders of his coalition were still defeated by the terrible defeat suffered during the primaries of August 11, some of the citizens felt the need to do something to prevent the return to power of former President Cristina. Fernández de Kirchner, although Once, he acts as vice-presidential shadow of the candidate Alberto Fernández.

The popular actor Luis Brandoni, affiliated with radicalism and ardent supporter of Macri, set the scene on fire. Brandoni is one of the protagonists of The Odyssey of the Giles, the film that sweeps these days in Argentine cinemas with a story about the collapse and the "corralito" of 2001. The actor published in Madrid a video on networks in which he called for mobilization. "We are worried but not defeated. on the contrary, there is a lot to do, "he said," on Saturday 24, we will go to the streets and squares of the whole country. "The message circulated quickly and mbadively.

Saturday afternoon arrived and several thousand people gathered around the obelisk of Buenos Aires. These were mostly old people, neither too few to talk about failure nor so much to talk about success. From there, they planned to walk to nearby Plaza de Mayo. And then a phenomenon began to develop, which seemed typical of a movie scenario: more and more people were meeting at the last minute in the square to fill it. At the same time, demonstrations took place in other cities of the country.

President Macri was at his fifth of Los Abrojos. The director Juan José Campanella (in Madrid with Brandoni as they both work in the room Lezama Park) published a message advising Macri to go to Casa Rosada, to which he paid attention. He ordered that the bars of the Plaza de Mayo that prevent him from approaching the presidential palace be removed and he drove to Casa Rosada, accompanied by his wife. From the balcony, Macri greeted the crowd and enthused. There was no speaker and he had to record a euphoric message with a mobile phone immediately aired. "Three and a half years, it's little to change everything that needs to be changed, stay together, we can be better," he said, tears in his eyes.

The IMF in Buenos Aires

The memory was April 1, 2017. Peronism had organized three major protest marches against the government, but that day, macrismo was mobilized in the streets and generated an impulse that led them to the victory in the legislative elections. They were going to lose. Saturday was, as April 1, 2017, a huge boost to the morale of the ruling coalition. But, already put in almost improbable coincidences, it also meant a show of force before the arrival of the delegation of the Monetary Fund in Buenos Aires. While the crowd applauded Macri and insulted Cristina Fernández de Kirchner ("Cristina Dam", "They do not come back") in front of Casa Rosada, the Fund's technicians met at the new head of the economy, at the Ministry of Finance. Hernán Lacunza They saw the demonstration from the windows of his office. "The IMF officials were surprised," said the minister later.