Vice President Victoria Villarruel met in Madrid with the former president Estela Martínez de Perónknown as “Isabelita”, and shared the photos of the meeting on her social networks where she stated: “I want to vindicate his figure”. Hours later, he inaugurated a bust of the former president in the Senate.
As he knew Scope, It was the libertarian leader herself who requested the meeting, which was held a week ago at “Isabelita’s” home. However, he decided to spread it on this date, because it was the Peronist Loyalty Day.
Villarruel surprised this Thursday with his post, in which he wrote: “With Isabel Martínez de Perón, the first female president of the world and of Argentina constitutionally elected, Vice president like me and a well-born Argentine,” wrote.
Furthermore, the president of the Senate did not miss the commemorative date and added: “On a day like today, where loyalty is talked about, I want to vindicate his figure.”
A user responded indignantly to Villarruel asking her about it, to which the vice president responded bluntly: “National unity. And the recognition of the first woman vice president and president, although others have believed that.”
Isabel Perón was elected vice president in the 1973 electionsbut it ended assuming her role as head of state after the death of her husband, Juan Domingo Peronin 1974.
Victoria Villarruel inaugurated a bust of Isabel Perón in the Senate
After publishing the photos of the meeting and vindicating the figure of the former president, Villarruel led the inauguration of a bust in tribute to “Isabelita” in the Senate. During the event, the vice president questioned Peronism for having “left a woman whose last name is Perón at the mercy of terrorism.”
Villarruel carried out the ceremony in the Hall of Provinces, a few months after having ordained remove the bust of former president Néstor Kirchner, by arguing that he had no link with the Upper House, a decision that generated strong repudiation from the Peronist interbloc.
Regarding Isabel Perón, who was overthrown on March 24, 1976 by the last military dictatorship, he highlighted that “He never asked for revengenor did she criticize the cowards who had harmed her, much less did he raise his voice against the country“.
In that sense, he added: “On the contrary, revealing a dignity as high as his courage“made silence a martyrdom,” claimed the Vice President.
Victoria Villarruel’s message against Cristina Kirchner
Just a couple of hours before the publication, the vice president had sent a message on her X account (former Twitter) criticizing the former president. Cristina Kirchner for his candidacy for the presidency of the Justicialist Party (PJ).
“Cristina de Kirchner calls her list First the Homeland. If the country comes first, why did they leave the country mired in poverty? If the country comes first, why did they leave it defenseless? If the country comes first, why do workers suffer insecurity and they worked to free the criminals?“Villarruel wrote.
Source: Ambito
