Vargas Llosa: "It would be very serious for Alberto Fernández to win" – News

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa said that a possible victory in presidential elections of the Front candidate of all, Alberto Fernández, would be "very serious" for Argentina and Latin America.

"I hope that the Argentineans will not commit the folly of giving power to Peronism. If that happens, Nicolás Maduro's Venezuela would receive blatant support from a Peronist government and the one from Latin America would be very serious, "he said.

"Argentina, along with President Mauricio Macri, has played a vital role in the defense of democracy and in solidarity with Venezuelans who are trying to recover it for their country, and it must continue to do so." he told the newspaper. The nation.

And he stressed that the Argentineans "have forgotten that the country that received the Macri government was" in ruins ".

Although he admitted that Macri had made mistakes during his administration, he felt that "the worst mistake would be to return power to Peronism." Macri was wrong not to make a stronger adjustment while he was still popular. Gradualism was invented and it did not work.

Vargas Llosa said that Macri "did not want to proceed with the most radical adaptation to a moral problem because the Argentines had already suffered a critical situation with Mrs. Kichner".

However, he continued, "gradualism has proved fatal, because not only has it not solved the problems, but now these problems are attributed to the Macri government, which has tried to remedy a critical situation moderately. ".

On the other hand, he said that in Argentina, there was a "fascination" with Peronism. "Since the first Peronism, which seduced with demagogic measures, there has been that kind of fantasy that attributes social justice that never existed and that has also served to convert a country of the first world into one of third world countries ", concluded.