“Look what I have here. Can you tell me the story of this, President?”Viale told him smiling.
“I told Eduardo (Feinmann) the other day”, answered the president in reference to the interview he gave to the also Argentine journalist, broadcast by Radio Mitre.
“Yes, that’s why I brought it”, Viale explained.
Lacalle Pou then told the story behind the Duracell rabbit.
“In the first campaign for the presidency, in 2014, during the internships when we put the team together one sometimes tends to look to the side at their competitors and react. And we always Monday mornings we would get together and say: action and not reaction. If we have a plan, if we are convinced where we are going, if we like our plan and we also believe that it is what the people need, let us not look to the side, let us not react,” he said.
“The temptation was always in force, what’s more, it was up until the 2019 campaign, and I told them: do you remember the Duracell bunny? He drummed, drummed, and the others kept falling to one side and to the other”, explained the president.
“So one day I grabbed, I went to Mercado Libre, I got a rabbit just like that. It was broken, I sent it to the electrician, we fixed it, we put some batteries in it and today I have it back on my desk just in case. Just in case one is tempted to react,” he concluded.
Lacalle Pou joked with the Argentine journalist and told him, regarding the stuffed animal that was in the La Nación+ studio: “Maybe I can make a couple with that one so when I cross the pond you give it to me.”
“I’ll take it another day“Viale replied and then began the interview.
