He was born in Buenos Aires in 1955 into a family with a political tradition. She is the heir of Honorio Pueyrredón, her great-grandfather and one of the historical leaders of the Radical Civic Union.. His grandmother introduced him to former President Ricardo Balbín, a meeting which he says marked his first step towards Peronism. “I think my grandmother was wrong, because if she had taken me to the Radical Youth there, I would have followed that path.” But of course Balbín was a big old man to me at the time. I left scared and went the other way,” she explains.
In the Peronist Youth, however, he took part in the return of former President Juan Domingo Perón to Argentina after his exile in Spain moved away, leaving youth behind. At that time there was the Montoneros, an armed urban guerrilla group that emerged before the last military dictatorship (1976-1983). The commander of the northern column, Rodolfo Galimberti, had a relationship with his sister Julieta Bullrich.
In 1975 Patricia Bullrich She was jailed for months for painting graffiti on a wall at the University of Buenos Aires’ Faculty of Philosophy and Literature. She was in exile during the military dictatorship and returned to the country after the Falklands War in the 1980s.. “The children of anti-Peronist parents became Peronists. It was a rebellion. “I left Peronism because I felt it was a cohesive corporate movement that didn’t believe in democracy or institutions,” said the current presidential candidate.
With the arrival of the new century, in the midst of the economic crisis, Patricia Bullrich took over the post of Minister of Labor under the temporary mandate of President Fernando de la Rúa. Therefore, he began to advocate “radicalism” and said that he shared the philosophical visions of this anti-Peronist movement.
She was an MP for three terms before joining Cambiemos in 2015, a political platform that broke away from Together for Change and promoted by former President Mauricio Macri. With the president who evicted Cristina Kirchner from the Casa Rosada held the position of Minister of Security. From this experience, he points out that he has improved security rates in the country, although fact-checking media Chequeado has caught him exaggerating crime figures on several occasions.
Now it is time confirmed as the new leader of this political sectorwhich marks differences from his main opponent until this Sunday, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta. His current proposals include dollarizing the economy to make it “dual currency,” with US currency free to circulate, reducing public spending, and reshaping the state budget to control inflation (114% yoy in September). June 2023). Convert social programs into temporary unemployment insurance and increase police operations to ensure social “order”.
Graduated in Humanities and Social Sciences with a major in Social Communication and Journalism from the University of Palermo (UP) and a Master in Political Science and Sociology from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (Flacso), holds a PhD in Political Science from the National University of San Martin.
