“Genius and figure to the grave. I have to thank you for so much recognition. I want to thank because there is a time to arrive and a time to go in life. I have to thank the officials, who in these 26 years, in this house, They have put up with me, I know some are gone.

I also love many colleagues, Deputies and Senators, with whom I have shared hard hours, and others even funny. I want to symbolize them in one, who sat in this armchair, Atchugarry. A major brand liberal, not a liberal in economics, in humanistics. We knew how to be adversaries without an offense over the years. And when it was my turn to be a Minister, he called me, out there in a bowling alley and said “Pepe, be careful with this, and with this, and with this. And when you go to sign any paper, make sure it has been reviewed by a public defender” .

A man of a superior category, who is not among us, and I want to name him as a symbol of something enduring of something that must be preserved, which is bonhomie despite the ridiculousness of the political system of this country. That being small, he has to flee from the cracks and has to achieve an average of common things that are maintained over time over the years.

I’m honestly leaving because the pandemic is throwing me away. Being a Senator means talking to people and walking everywhere, the game is not played in offices. And I am threatened from all sides, by double circumstances, by old age and by suffering from a chronic immune disease. If a vaccine appears tomorrow, I cannot get vaccinated … Then I have to make this decision, and thank you for the patience you have had to put up with me, and you have been very complimentary, too complimentary.

I have my good amount of flaws, I am passionate. But in my garden, I haven’t cultivated hatred in decades. Because I learned a hard lesson that life gave me, that hatred ends up “stupid” because it makes us lose objectivity in the face of things. Hate is blind like love, but love is creative, and hate destroys us.

Time makes changes, we are entering another era, the digital age, neither better nor worse, different. And I think that technological problems have appeared that are capable of predicting what character is like, and what the driving lines of human behavior are essentially like, sometimes without talking to us. And this is going to be a dilemma, which the States and the political systems of the future are going to have. To what extent is human privacy violated and to what extent is freedom?

Because until recently we passionately believed in a definition of freedom, and now science tells us: “If freedom means following desires and inclinations, freedom exists. inclinations and those desires, freedom does not exist. ” I have lived with a definition and they changed the whole letter now. New generations have this problem, politics will have to be heeded. Because politics is the fight for human happiness, even if it sounds like a chimera.

And finally, many people have supported us during these years. Twenty-odd years. I have to be grateful to them, those who decide anonymously out there, within the People.

In politics there is no succession, in politics there are causes, and men and women pass. Some causes survive, and have to be transformed, and the only permanent thing is change. Biology imposes changes, but there must also be an attitude of change, of giving opportunity to new generations. Build, help build the future, since life is leaving us and it is inevitable, but the causes remain.

I’ve been through everything in life. To be 6 months with wires, with the hands tied behind the back. Going out of my body for not being able to put up with a truck and spending two or three days. Being 2 years without being taken to bathe and having to bathe with a bottle, with a cup of water. I’ve been through everything, but I don’t hate anyone. And I want to convey to young people: you have to give thanks to life. Succeeding in life is not winning, succeeding in life is getting up and starting over every time one falls.

Thanks”