Mirtha Legrand’s sadness over poverty and layoffs: «It depresses me to know that there are people who don’t eat»

After it is known that poverty was 41.7% in the second half of 2023 and that Javier Milei announced the termination of 70,000 public employee contracts, Mirtha Legrand (97) spoke about it with great sadness.

On a new table Mirtha’s night (El Trece), the hosts received the governor of Santa Fe, Maximiliano Pullaro, the journalist Maru Duffard, the actor Benjamín Rojas, Dr. Daniel López Rosetti and the theater producer José María Muscari.

“The country depresses me. It depresses me to know that there are people who don’t eat“, Chiqui opened the dialogue, with emotion in her voice.

According to data recently released by Indec, 19,500,000 Argentines are poor, of which 6.5 million are poor. Furthermore, 58.4% of children under 14 are poor: 6.4 million children.

“I’m not saying it because I’m on television to make me love you more, I’m saying it because I feel it. I always think of the little ones in the house and say “dad, I’m hungry”“the driver complained.

Mirtha instead referred to the wave of layoffs in the public sphere. “The people they fired, Where are all those people going? There are thousands of people, what we are experiencing is terrible. You have to think of others“Added Legrand.

Less than a week ago, at the IEFA Latam Forum, President Javier Milei assured that, After having fired 50 thousand public employees, another 70 thousand will be hired. Manuel Adorni, the president’s spokesman, explained that 15,000 of these contracts will be canceled before the end of March and that the remainder will be renewed for another six months “and then progress will continue”.

José María Muscari, who recently adopted a 16-year-old teenager from Corrientes, added to the conversation: “When one walks down the street, thinking about the other is inevitable because there are many people sleeping on the streets and the mother with her son asking. And you realize they have nowhere to go.

“It makes me angry because this is a very rich country”said the driver.

For his part, Pullaro expressed his opinion on the matter: “In Santa Fe we increase the quantities of food and medicine, because there are people who need them. I agree it’s a rich country, but “We have never had a productive model for the republic.”

“They also stole a lot…”Mirtha interrupted him. “Yes, they stole and I believe The company got tired and for this reason it took its vote to the extreme“, the official replied.

“If you put the accounts of a State in order that for 13 years has spent more than it has collected, there will be a recovery. But I also see that the adjustment is very strong and is paid for by people from the most popular sectors. Today the minimum pension is 204 thousand pesos. The Basket Base is 690 thousand. Argentina is a productive country and we must have a model of productive development that we have not had,” concluded Pullaro.

Mirtha Legrand’s pain over her family’s losses

In another part of the program, José María Muscari asked Mirtha Legrand what makes her sad. Then, the driver opened her heart and He spoke like never before about his family’s harsh losses.

“The lack of loved ones saddens me. Missing my son, my sister, my brother, my husband. I was very aloneand the loneliness is terrible,” Chiqui complains.

However, he explained that he was able to overcome loneliness thanks to work: “Maybe I don’t work now, but I do it because I like it. I do it for pleasure, because it’s good for me and I escape from depression. Life has been very generous to me. I started at 14 with my first film and it always went well, I was successful, people loved me.

To conclude, he recounted the experience he had recently when he went to see the show Legally blonde, with Laurita Fernández, where she was applauded by the audience: “My eyes are filling with tears. Because I say “I’m a big woman, what do guys see in me?” I’m a great-grandmother. It makes me very happy, I like contact with people. “I don’t do it for money, I do it for my spirit.”