"I'm back": with harsh criticism of the Macri family, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta launched himself as a candidate in the City

"I'm back." This is how Horacio Rodríguez Larreta announced his candidacy for Buenos Aires legislator in the upcoming elections on May 18. Clarín had access to the text, which says the following.

"Every day I choose a neighborhood in the city of Buenos Aires and walk around it for hours. After so many years, I recognize every street, every block. I know what we did in each place. My life and that of Buenos Aires are mixed together. Sometimes I don't know where one ends and the other begins.

On these walks I listen to all the neighbors who approach me. I ask them how they see the city, how things are. Time and again they confirm what we all perceive: THE CITY IS NOT OK. Buenos Aires is no longer what it used to be. It is time to say it and accept it. The only way to solve a problem is to begin by recognizing it.

The great achievements of our administration are being diluted: the city is dirty, unmaintained, potholes have returned, no works are being done and there are no answers to the neighbors. Prisoners for federal crimes escape from police stations, generating insecurity. Everyone tells me that.

What made us different was good management. What we were, our reason for being, today seems like just a shadow. It hurts me a lot to hear it. It hurts me to see it. How can it not hurt me if this city is such an important part of my life?

I am convinced that together we can recover Buenos Aires, take it into the future and make our city one of the best in the world again. I have thought a lot about the things we could have done better. During this time I have dedicated myself to studying and building new equipment. Now that there is macroeconomic stability, we can immediately resume the expansion of the subway and build the much-needed Sarmiento viaduct.

Unfortunately, the PRO has lost its identity. The knowledge of who we are, why we are here, why we do what we do and what we are for and against. The day you lose your identity, you lose everything.

I was and am against handing over the PRO to Milei, I said so from the first day. That is why I was not part of the current leadership of the party. The PRO should have played a constructive role as opposition. That is why they voted for us.

We have always been against fanaticism, messianic leaderships and ideological extremism. We have always been against aggression and insults. And, above all, we have always defended the right to think differently. We have always claimed public service and good politics as tools for change. I know this for a very simple reason: I was one of the founders of the PRO.