Under the slogan “Argentines: Let’s get excited again. Let’s make it worth it“, he Institute for Business Development of Argentina (IDEA) calls for a new edition of the 59th Colloquium in the city of Mar del Plata. Less than twenty days before the elections, two of the three main candidates for president of the nation, Sergio Massa and Patricia Bullrich, will take an exam before a business audience that paid 600,000 pesos to hear their proposals and projects for the country’s future. Although it has a place in the official program of the event, the La Libertad Avanza team assured that Javier Milei chose not to go to the event.
As it has done annually for almost six decades, IDEA will present between October 4 and 6 at the Sheraton Hotel in Mar del Plata a new edition of the Colloquium that brings together business leaders, government officials, academics, NGOs, unions, journalists and other prominent social actors. Although the Institute will present “realistic” proposals for the country to “return to a path of sustained development,” the more than a thousand registered people who this year sold out in a short time the places to attend They will focus their interest on Sergio Massa, Patricia Bullrich, who, in that order, will speak during the business meeting. The businessmen were waiting to hear Javier Milei who, although he did not respond to the invitation, denies his attendance.
The official Program announces that the main courses will take place on Thursday and Friday in the section “the vision of the candidates for president of the Nation.” On Thursday at 11, the Minister of Economy and presidential candidate for Unión por la Patria, Sergio Massa, is scheduled to speak, and at 1:00 p.m., it will be the turn of the presidential candidate for Together for Change, Patricia Bullrich.
At the opening on Friday, the organizers left a privileged place – on the closing day and not shared with the other two candidates – to Javier Milei. However, his team assured PageI1 what “Javier is not going to go to IDEA. He chose not to go”. Milei’s attendance was in doubt by the institute itself until a few days ago and the IDEA team assured this newspaper that “it is still waiting for a response from Milei.”
At the 2022 Colloquium, Javier Milei participated in an exclusive lunch for members of the Institute at a coastal restaurant in the City. At that time, the LLA candidate began to present his “chainsaw plan” for public spending to businessmen. He still flippantly used explosive adjectives such as “poor politicians” and treated the state as “filthy garbage.”
After the result of the PASO, the leader had to moderate his interventions. Not only in specific economic proposals (he no longer refers to burning the Central Bank or dollarizing on day one), but also to his way of expressing himself to capture the votes he needs to become president of the nation. From the Red Circle they were always reticent about the idea of Milei as president, although the results of the PASO forced them to listen to him more carefully.
In addition to Massa and Bullrich, among the important surnames that will be on stage are that of President Alberto Fernández who will close the first day of the event; the leading economist in the space of Patricia Bullrich Carlos Melconian; Daniel Funes from Rioja, the President of the Argentine Industrial Union; Martin Galdeano; President and CEO of Ford; Gerardo Martínez, Secretary General of UOCRA, Secretary of International Relations of the CGT and Member of the Board of Directors of the ILO.
