Biolcati backpeddles, says he 'highly respects' 50% who voted for CFK

The head of the Argentine Rural Society Hugo Biolcati decided to rectify his previous controversial statements towards the 50 percent of the population that chose to vote for President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner during the last primary elections, and chose a more conciliatory tone towards the National Government. 

“Our organization deeply respects the percentage obtained by the president in the last referendum. It’s worthy of attention. It’s highly respectable,” he said, adding that the landslide victory “forces all of society – even business leaders – to reflect” without leaving behind “our logic demands” 

“Maybe we should reconsider the way we engage in dialogue. Maybe we should find a more mature way of doing it. There are, however, some issues that remain to be discussed. Having obtained the 50 percent of vote doesn’t clear the way for investment and development, especially with such a complicated scenario on the horizon,” he explained.

When asked about his controversial statement about “big screen TV’s and Tinelli,” he replied that his intention was to make a distinction between “the vote coming from farmers and the vote coming from people who live in town and cities in the interior. The farming producer definitely didn’t vote for the President, and that is evidenced by the percentages she obtained in provinces like Santa Fe, Córdoba or Rosario. She won there too, but not by a landslide.”

“People who live in the interior, where the money is, people who sell trucks, build homes, people who work as mechanics, bakers butchers… those people are doing well. They work all day, go back home and put Tinelli on their big screen TV’s. This is highly respectable. I wanted to convey an idea of comfort. Those people are the ones who voted for Cristina,” he concluded.