The Buenos Aires government responded to Larreta for his criticism of Jorge Macri: "It is an aggressive and incomprehensible attack"

The Buenos Aires government responded harshly to Horacio Rodríguez Larreta , following criticism of Jorge Macri's management in the statement where he announced his candidacy for the 2025 elections.

" It's unfair. We are surprised by the aggressiveness of the attack because many people on your team work with us," said Laura Alonso, a spokesperson for the Buenos Aires administration.

He also pointed to the management of Jorge Macri's predecessor and spoke of the "hell" of living with pickets and street vendors.

"We should ask him why he is doing it now, what for, what is the objective ," Alonso said in an interview with La Red radio.

And he continued: "For us, and many people from Buenos Aires, it is a surprise, a more incomprehensible action. We govern the City, Jorge Macri was elected with strong support, we know the challenges we have such as security, urban planning, economic development, education... That is what we concentrate 99.9 percent of. The rest are discussions of politicians that do not concern us too much when you have to manage."

Yesterday, Larreta announced that he will run for this year's legislative elections. Although he has not decided which position he will run for, he said in advance that he will compete to be "legislator, deputy or senator", which would mean he could run in both the legislative elections on May 18 and the national elections on October 26. In that announcement, he harshly criticized the PRO and, without mentioning them, his cousins ​​Mauricio and Jorge Macri.

Since the end of last year, Rodríguez Larreta has been touring the City, a district that he governed for eight years, from 2015 to 2023, and of which he was Chief of Staff in the previous eight years, from 2007 to 2015.

Alonso also questioned Rodríguez Larreta for not having raised the issue within the PRO party structure and questioned his having anticipated the electoral discussion.

"Let him tell us what his administration was like, let him tell us what he did with the pickets, the street vendors and the urban disorder in the last years of his administration, what happened during the pandemic in the City, let him explain to the parents why the children could not go to school," reproached the spokesperson of the current Buenos Aires mayor.

The Buenos Aires official also got involved in the fight over prisoners held in Buenos Aires police stations and jails, after the letter from the Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrich, who published a harsh letter in which she pointed out that "in the vast majority of provincial jurisdictions there is an excess of prisoners held in police stations, but not all of them have prisoners escaping every week."

"The Penitentiary Service is federal and neither the powers nor the resources have been transferred to the City. The prisoners have to be in federal prisons," said Alonso.

He also took the opportunity to recall that during the pandemic and in the midst of the previous administration of Rodríguez Larreta, together with the government of Alberto Fernández, the situation in police stations and jails worsened.

"There are no prisons in the City like in Santa Fe or Entre Ríos, where there are provincial prisons. We are working on this situation. We do not understand, or we should ask her, why Bullrich is attacking the head of government and the City," the spokesperson said.