Vice President Victoria Villarruel questioned this Tuesday what she defined as “operators” and “ideology tasters” who attacked her on social media after she visited the “Fiesta de la Chaya” in La Rioja this past weekend and was photographed with Peronist Governor Ricardo Quintela.
Villarruel stated on her social network X that her arrival in La Rioja, the nineteenth province she has visited since taking office as vice president, aimed to “visit from productive ventures to wind parks,” to show Argentines “the culture of collective effort by families and entrepreneurial groups.”
She highlighted that in the past, during the pandemic “that had us locked up” by the decision of Alberto Fernández's government, “the operators who played at criticizing me as ideology tasters were not so incisive, nor did they put their bodies on the line to resist that.”
In this way, Villarruel responded to criticism from her own party, La Libertad Avanza, such as that made by councilor Luciana de León of the Rioja capital, who, referring to the photo with Quintela, expressed: “How shameful and disappointing to see her smiling with those responsible for the backwardness and decay in La Rioja!”
According to the Argentine News Agency, the libertarian councilor expressed her criticism of the photo with Quintela on her social networks and linked it to “populist models from the deep interior” in impoverished provinces whose officials “multiplied their assets in an exorbitant way.”
In her response on Tuesday, the Vice President stated: “If in the deep Argentina someone sells more olives or visits a National Park, I am happy.”
