Bullrich Assured That Society Is Loudly Demanding the Intervention of the Province

Amid the resignation request of the ultra-Kirchnerist governor Axel Kicillof by Javier Milei, the National Security Minister, Patricia Bullrich, supported the president's request, considering it "the solution to a problem" and went further by insisting on the need for the Buenos Aires governor to leave his position to implement "a hardline policy" and help the Buenos Aires residents.

"What the President says is to provide a solution to a problem," Bullrich stated. When asked about the political impact of Milei's demand, the minister was categorical: "It's stronger every day to wake up with the level of violence and violent murders, elderly people tortured in their homes, people being dragged in cars, home invasions. That's even more violent," she replied emphatically.

According to Bullrich, "the issue is that in the province the governing philosophy is disastrous, it's the philosophy of the criminal," and she added: "What the President says is 'if we build on a structure that is poorly designed and we want to solve the problem, as was proposed at some point, by putting gendarmes and prefects, we build on a structure with problems, the only thing we are going to do is infect our forces and create a problem on top of a problem'."

In that line, and after highlighting the progress made with the presence of federal forces in Rosario, Bullrich stated that the model proposed by Milei's Government involves "running, intervening, having the governor leave as the President said, intervening in that force and working almost doing something completely different and with a hardline philosophy."

"For a concrete problem, a concrete solution," Bullrich reiterated before concluding by saying that the intervention would be a response to a demand from society. "They are calling us out loud and that's why the President says step aside and let those who know do it," she assured.

Using surveys, Bullrich supported this statement, "if you look at any survey it tells you 'who is in a position to fix security in the Province of Buenos Aires', they say Milei's Government and the National Security Ministry, everyone says it, society says it 80%," she emphasized.

Milei's message

Bullrich's statements emerged as a response to the resignation request that President Milei made to the incompetent Kicillof, in addition to the proposal to intervene in the province due to the "bloodbath" scenario.

Kicillof had publicly expressed himself for the first time after the murder of a 7-year-old girl in La Plata, where he did not take responsibility for anything, blaming the Justice and accusing Milei of using such events to supposedly "gain a vote, to profit from the pain."

Milei's response was swift and forceful. Through his social media, he wrote: "Our vision on how to tackle the problem is so different and you clearly can't solve it (if you couldn't manage a bar, much less a province), since you are admitting your failure, if you care about the well-being of Buenos Aires residents step aside (that is, resign) and let us intervene in the Province. In a year we will end the violence," Milei assured.

He added: "We will take responsibility, Governor. See if you care more about the well-being of Buenos Aires residents or your personal political interests."