Daniel Scioli. Flickr. Some rights reserved.
“People assessed and then decided. Moreover, this is a time when Argentina wants to oxygenate its institutions through change. I was unfairly smacked many times. I have been fighting for six months and sleeping very little and eating badly for the last month. Yesterday, I couldn’t sleep a wink and only now I am getting back on my feet. I am proud of this civic party”. These are Mauricio Macri’s words.
But he did not pronounce them on Monday October 26, 2015, after his huge electoral performance the day before. Macri was evaluating his electoral victory on December 5, 1995, his first step into politics. At that moment, the runoff, Daniel Scioli, the alliance with the Unión Cívica Radical, his three successive victories as Buenos Aires City mayor, and the constitution of his own political party, the Republican Proposal (PRO), all belonged to an unpredictable future. By the end of 1995, Macri also won the elections to become president of the Boca Juniors football club. Popular sport magazines ran front page headlines saying: “Argentina’s Berlusconi”.
