Patricia Bullrich is one of the pre-candidates for the Presidency of Argentina by the Together for Change coalition. In the primaries on Sunday (13), she will dispute the right to run for Casa Rosada with the mayor of Buenos Aires, Horacio Larreta.
The pre-candidate was born in 1956, in Buenos Aires, into a traditional Argentine aristocratic family, the Luro Pueyrredón, and broke with the radical political position of her lineage already in her adolescence.
Daughter of Alejandro Bullrich and Julieta Luro Pueyrredón, she has emblematic ancestors such as Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, supreme director of the provinces of the Río de la Plata, and Honorio Pueyrredón, minister in the government of Hipólito Yrigoyen.
But Patricia Bullrich not only has an illustrious lineage, but also some of her relatives known in the Argentine artistic and political circles.
Bullrich’s adolescence and militancy
“I think my grandmother was wrong, because if she had taken me to the Radical Youth, that way, I would have followed that path. But of course, Balbín — leader of the Radical Civic Union — to me at that time was a great old gentleman. I left in fear and went to the other side”. This is how Patrícia herself declared to FiloNews about her beginnings in politics.
Her grandmother was the daughter of Honorio Pueyrredón — another radical leader — and in the words of the pre-candidate herself, perhaps she was responsible for changing the teenager’s family political course and her interest in Peronism.
His youth was marked by militancy in the Peronist Youth (JP) and by his proximity to Rodolfo Galimberti, leader of the Montoneros (left-wing urban guerrilla), married to his sister Julieta.
Those years of her life were marked by JP, the return of Perón, the subsequent exile, the death of her sister in France and an association with Montoneros that lasts, due to her relationship with her brother-in-law Galimberti, although she denies it.
Life outside the police
Not everything was political in adolescence. The now representative of the toughest wing of Together for Change had her time of recitals and rock. Fabiana Cantilo, a well-known rock singer in Argentina, is the candidate’s cousin because their mothers were sisters.
When Mirtha Legrand, on her TV show Having lunch with Mirtha Legrandasked the artist about her first time at a rock recital, Fabiana did not hesitate to state that it was Bullrich who encouraged her to go to her first concert: “My cousin ‘Pato’ who told me ‘do you like progressive music, Fabi? ‘”.
The show was by Pescado Rabioso, Luis Spinetta’s band, and was Cantilo’s first approach to progressive rock. The cousins, according to Fabiana in a note to La Nación in 1997, have a fraternal relationship. “She played cards and rode wildly. She was a little out of date, she was encouraged to do everything”, describes Fabiana Patrícia, recalling moments of her teenage cousins.
Public crossing with another cousin, Esteban
Another of his relatives with political activity in Argentina is his second cousin Esteban Bullrich, a former national senator — who, despite belonging to the same political field, did not hesitate to go out to face the now pre-candidate.
When Horacio Rodríguez Larreta launched himself as a presidential candidate, Patricia Bullrich, who at the time was also aspiring to the candidacy, posted a tweet in which he criticized the dialogue profile of the head of the municipal government.
“There is no room for dialogue with those who are part of the problem and deepen the decay of our country or for lukewarm responses to the sad reality that Argentines suffer.”
Esteban’s public response to his cousin was blunt: “We are not going to fall into the trap”.
“It takes more courage to talk to someone who thinks differently than to insult them,” said the cousin.
Independiente supporter
Political conviction is not the only rivalry that Patricia has with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, with whom he is running for president. Football also puts them on opposite paths.
While the current mayor of Buenos Aires and presidential candidate is a well-known Racing fan, Bullrich wears the red colors of Avellaneda’s other club and historic rival: Independiente.
Although she has never actively participated in the club’s political life, she has publicly manifested herself on some important occasions in Independiente’s life.
In addition, Néstor Grindetti, pre-candidate for governor of the province of Buenos Aires indicated by Bullrich in the primaries, is now president of the club. And when his ticket with Fabián Doman won the election, Bullrich published a celebratory tweet.
“Bye Moyano. The mob and the mafia are over at Independiente”, alluding to unionist Hugo Moyano who was leaving office.
In another of her tweets, she praised Grindetti’s management of the club and posted a photo of her membership card. Also in the middle of the campaign, she could be seen singing along with Grindetti “Sou do Vermelho” on TikTok.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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