Buenos Aires city relegated: former coach enters Argentine politics.
Buenos Aires became a focus of national politics, with legislative elections on May 18, in a fragmented scenario with 17 lists. Separately, French politician Marine Le Pen was convicted of corruption and banned from holding public office for five years. This Sunday the 30th, the lists of candidates for legislator of the city of Buenos Aires were closed, a district governed by Republican Proposal (PRO) for 18 years, but whose hegemony is at risk due to the fracture of local alliances and the nationalization of these elections. La Libertad Avanza nominated the presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni, and the party allied to the Government, Movement of Integration and Development (MID), a former soccer coach, Ricardo Caruso Lombardi, to face the party of former President Mauricio Macri. "The city of Buenos Aires has already gone to the B [relegated]. I aim to make a good election, because there is a good work team. Oscar Zago [president of the MID] told me to go forward. I had already participated politically to be part of the union of technical directors with many situations that I denounced. Now what I want is to lend an ear to the people of Buenos Aires. I don't need anything, I'm not going to live off the State, I want people to be able to say what they feel," Ricardo Caruso Lombardi said in Cara o Ceca. "I know the other candidates don't like me because they know I can reach people," he added. "I never felt fully represented by a political space. What interests me is that the politician in office does things well. Milei came to power because Argentines were tired of this kind of people," he concluded. Le Pen was convicted of corruption. The Paris Criminal Court convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement of European Union funds. She was banned for five years from holding public office and sentenced to four years in prison, two of which she will serve on probation. In addition, she was fined 100,000 euros. "The decision of the Justice is wrong and should not decide how to do politics. The European Parliament is not a technical office. Le Pen is condemned for having European deputies and parliamentary assistants who had carried out political activities in France, when in reality all politicians do that," said Romain Mingus, a French journalist, in Cara o Ceca. “With this decision we see that opponents of the current neoliberal system are being taken out of the political game,” he added.
Original title: "La Ciudad de Buenos Aires se fue a la B": ex director técnico desembarca en la política argentina
Original description: La ciudad de Buenos Aires se ha convertido en foco de la política nacional, con las elecciones de l…