With just 90 days before the deadline to confirm his candidacy, former president Mauricio Macri announced that he will not run for president in a 5-minute video this morning. In his video, he also praised his 2015-2019 administration, criticizing President Alberto Fernández’s administration. “’Never again’ will we be represented by a puppet,’ he said in referene to Fernández, who was selected by Vice President Cristina Kirchner to run for president in May 2019. “Never Again” or “Nunca Más” is a motto used by Argentina’s human rights movement calling for the horrors of the last military dictatorship to never be repeated. Macri stepping down from the presidential race without explicitly supporting any of the Juntos por el Cambio presidential candidates specifically, he leaves the game open for them to run against each other in the August primaries.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald March 27, 2023 03:19 UTC