Diego Santilli, national representative of Together for Change.
Israel seems to be the destination chosen by Argentina’s political leaders as a platform for the electoral campaign in 2023. Regardless of political taste. First, Interior Minister Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro traveled to the European country in April to develop a well-stocked agenda, which includes meetings with businessmen and local officials, and to position himself as a candidate in presidency for the Front of All.
Now it’s Diego Santilli’s turn, who has been in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem since Monday, seeking to combine his candidacy for governor of Buenos Aires from Together for Change, with an agenda that will feature meetings with officials from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, but also to the national interior minister, and local businessmen.
Santilli’s landing abroad is aimed at getting him installed as a candidate in the Province by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta in his presidential project, adopted by a central axis: your security experiencefor his work as a minister in the City of Buenos Aires, which in large part made him an attractive candidate for the Province in 2021.
Santilli and Larreta, at a recent meeting. Photo: Maxi Failla.
Santilli’s first activity in Israel will be on Monday, when he will tour the offices of Raicol Crystals Ltd., a company founded in 1995 that specializes in the manufacture of crystals and electro-optical devices that evaluate future investments. in the country.
On Tuesday, the agenda will continue in techno mode, as it will hold meetings with the two startups. First, with Nation Central, an independent nonprofit organization that makes bridges to Israeli innovation. Its main goal, they say from Santillismo, is to connect business leaders, government and NGOs from around the world to Israeli innovation, offering Israeli innovators access to high-potential markets.
On the same day he will meet with directors of Blue White Robotics, a company founded in 2017 by former Israeli Air Force pilots and engineers, with experience in operations in autonomous air and ground technologies. Also on Tuesday, Santilli will hold several meetings with officials from the security area, both national and municipal. Finally, on Thursday he will have dinner with the Minister of the Interior, Ayelet Shaked, and the tour will close with a meeting with the Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum.
An external rising partner
It is no coincidence that Argentina’s political leadership aims to position itself in the Israeli market. In recent years, commercial exchanges between the two countries have been growing and the strategic alliances established include agreements with the Nation, but also with the City and other provinces.
An important link in relations between Argentina and Israel is Mario Montotoformer leader of Montonero, father of ANSeS leader Fernanda Ravertawho was also president of the Argentine-Israeli Chamber of Commerce and accompanied De Pedro and governors such as Rodolfo Suárez (Mendoza), Raúl Jalil (Catamarca), Gustavo Bordet (Entre Ríos), Gildo Insfrán (Formosa), Arabela Carreras (Río Negro), Sergio Uñac (San Juan) and Alicia Kirchner (Santa Cruz).
But it also has good relations with the city government, to the point in March it signed an agreement with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, in terms of scientific-technological, commercial, clean energy and environmental technologies cooperation in production systems.
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Mario Montoto, at a work meeting.
Recently, Montoto made headlines because his security company, Surely SA, closed a contract with the national Ministry of Justice worth $ 3.723 million to “manage, track and monitor the spouses of aggressors and victims of sexual violence. “
After the trip, the tours return
The trip to Israel will be marked by a temporary halt to tours Santilli has been making throughout the province of Buenos Aires since before he became a candidate and also for next year’s election.
During all that time, according to the register kept by the consultants, he traveled 40,000 kilometers to 90 of the 135 municipalities of Buenos Aires. Between now and the end of the year, he plans to complete all the districts of the Province and emphasize the strategy of pursuing increasing votes in the first and third sections, where the largest population is concentrated.
At the same time, he will move forward with the diagram of the eight campaign axes, in which the province’s security, education and infrastructure initiatives stand out, and with a plan that considers what the first 100 hours of a possible term as governor will be. of the province of Buenos Aires would be like.
Source: Clarin
