Gabriel Martino is a member of Patricia Bulrrich’s technical teams but prioritized listening to the libertarian’s proposals. “I work for Together for Change but first of all I am a businessman,” the former HSBC told Ámbito before getting into the van that took him to the event.
Around 12 noon the presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich arrived at the Sheraton in Mar del Plata to participate in the IDEA Colloquium. At that same time, the door of the hotel that overlooks the beach was packed with taxis and vans that came to pick up journalists and businessmen and take them about 2 kilometers to the Furia bar, where Javier Milei organized his own event. Curiously, among those who chose to participate in the meeting with the libertarian was the former HSBC Gabriel Martino, who is part of the technical teams of Together for Change, but what did he say to Ambit: “First and foremost, I am a businessman.”
Javier Milei achieved it. Although the main hall was completely packed at the time of Patricia Bullrich’s exhibition, The libertarian managed to capture the attention of a large part of the second day of the IDEA Colloquium without participating in the event. She did it with a move that among business men and women no one considered casual or innocent. He set up his own summit a few blocks from the place and made contacts with several of the businessmen who are eager to know who and how they accompany the candidate with the most votes in the PASO.
Thus, it used the installed capacity that the annual event organized by large companies made available to give volume to the Colloquium with the call of journalists, consultants, cameras, audio and, of course, representatives of large firms. A kind of Aikido, that martial art of Japanese origin whose fundamental motto is “use the enemy’s strength to your advantage.”
The most paradigmatic case of the bleeding that Bullrich suffered is that of Gabriel Martino, the former CEO of HSBC, who is also a member of the technical teams of Together for Change. Ámbito crossed him at the door of the Sheraton just at the time that the presidential candidate was arriving. But the finance expert was not there to receive the former Minister, but rather he was about to get into a van to travel to Milei’s lunch.
“Now I’m going there,” Martino confirmed to this medium before leaving for the bar, where some bankers were already there. “I go as a businessman, I have many investments in Argentina and I want to go listen,” he explained. At the same time, he acknowledged: “I work for Together for Change but first of all I am a businessman.” When asked by this medium, the former HSBC executive dismissed the repercussions that the bleeding suffered by Bullrich at the event could generate within Together for Change: “If it bothers them, it’s their problem,” said.
From Javier Milei’s space they say that the event has been organized since June and that “it is one of the many lunches organized by the companies that participate in IDEA.” They also assure that the similarity in schedules “is a mere coincidence.” In the libertarian circle, they detail that about ninety companies participated, but that “two days ago there were only fifty registered.”
Source: Ambito
