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Do we like Patricia Bullrich?

Our score: 4 out of 10. Real stains on policing and a pension cut, some independence from Milei, and thin evidence of good deeds or of her views on LGBTQ+ people and the climate.

Bullrich was born in Buenos Aires in 1956 to a cardiologist father and a wealthy mother, played competitive hockey, then threw herself into the Peronist youth movement. Her first husband was a Montonero militant. She has publicly denied being in the armed group, though former associates say she helped with intelligence tasks. She was jailed briefly in 1975, spent the dictatorship in exile and came home for good in 1983.

The career arc is long. She was a three-term national deputy and labour minister under Fernando de la Rúa, where she signed a law cutting pensions and state salaries by 13% for sums over 500 pesos. Under Mauricio Macri she was security minister from 2015 to 2019, then ran for president in 2023 on the line that things needed to be put in order. That slogan tells you most of what she's about.

The harm check is mostly about policing. She defended police officer Luis Chocobar, who shot a fleeing 18-year-old suspect in the back and was convicted of aggravated homicide. She also backed gendarmes linked to the Santiago Maldonado disappearance and the killing of Rafael Nahuel, and human rights groups criticised her for it. We found no anti-LGBTQ+ words of her own in what we read, and nothing solid on her climate record, so that part is a gap rather than a pass.

A complaint accusing her of illegal coercion and abuse of authority over police repression was sent by Argentina's Supreme Court to a federal judge in March 2026. It is only a complaint: the report we read gave no outcome and no response from her. Treat it as unresolved.

The recent drama is intra-party. In June 2026 she would not withdraw a judicial nomination Milei wanted pulled, colleagues aligned with Karina Milei criticised her, and she offered her resignation as bloc head while her advisers said she wasn't leaving the party. Earlier that month she again questioned Adorni at the coalition table, calling his undeclared money an “ethical omission”. Whatever you think of her, she's not a rubber stamp.

She's still firmly on Milei's team publicly. In Montevideo in April she said she would back his re-election and ruled out her own run, and she pitched a hardline, hot-spot approach to crime, citing a drop in robberies under her watch. Those are her numbers, not an independent check.