The mayors of the suburbs who obtained more votes than the presidential section of the Unión por la Patria (UP) ballot are forced to military the candidacy of Sergio Massa fearing that Patricia Bullrich o Javier Miley arrive at the Pink House. The unexpected result of the PASO leaves them closer than ever to the possibility of experiencing firsthand the brutal adjustment they promise. In that troop of territorial leaders there are distinctions: those who won comfortably in their districts and those who achieved it by a handful of votes. For those of the second platoon, the situation is complex; how to raise money for the candidate minister without “immolating oneself” in the attempt, that is the question.
In UP they put the magnifying glass on the thousands of votes that the mayors and mayors of the suburbs obtained over the presidential candidate. They believe that you have to look for those voters to convince them to put in the full ballot.
“In the district we are calm, but Milei is very worrying, not because of the local or the number of councilors they can get, but because of the national. If he is president and does what he says, the province and the municipalities could be defunded and without those resources we cannot do anything. It would be impossible to govern”, a communal chief of the First section points out to Letter P, while noting that a Larreta strengthened in the election and with chances “was another story” and thinks “the disaster” that it would be for them to deal with the candidate to Governor of La Libertad Avanza, Caroline Piparo.
The fear reaches such a point that there are those who even speculate that, if indeed the head of the hawks or the libertarian arrive at La Rosada, it would possibly be better for the municipalities to have Nestor Grindetti in the government of Buenos Aires, a well-known couple and with whom “you can talk.” The analysis includes what could happen with the management of Axel Kicillof if the opposition reaches Balcarce 50. “Axel’s jet is cut off and therefore us; with Grindetti, maybe not”, ventures an operator from the suburbs.
“We must, yes or yes, force the full ballot, with Massa and Kicillof, and try to transfer all our votes. From now until October they are going to work on it”, affirms a community chief who won by a wide margin in his district. However, the situation is not the same for everyone: “We are going to play well for Axel and Massa, but without blowing ourselves up,” a source who sits at the small table of a mayor who won by a narrow margin clarifies to this outlet.
In the suburbs, emphasis is placed on the difficulties of militarizing Massa, “a difficult candidate, does not rise.” They say so in the Third section and for various reasons: the devaluation of the last few days and the impact on prices and the absence of the candidate in the territory during the campaign. “We assume that now he is going to go down further into the territory, he is going to come to seek the votes of the mayors and we are going to receive him if that is the case,” adds the source. These weeks that will not happen: Massa deals with the double role of minister and candidate and this Wednesday he warned that for the next few days his task will be to close the negotiation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
In a round of consultations carried out by this means, in the municipalities they affirm that the key will be in the fact that the communal chiefs achieve, in addition to transferring the votes they had in the PASO with a ballot cut, to raise themselves between six and seven points, especially among the electorate that did not go to vote, so that part of those votes go by decantation to Massa.
The difference between the local section of the UP ticket and the national one is counted in thousands. Some examples: in Avellaneda, Jorge Ferraresi got 48.2 percent of the votes (89,113), compared to 38 percent (76,513) of the sum of Massa and Juan Grabois. In La Matanza, the local internship obtained 44.8 percent (287,747), compared to 39.4 percent (272,435) for the national segment. In Moreno, the difference was 12 points: 52.5 percent (113,463) to 40.5 percent (93,220). In San Fernando, the massista mayor John Andreotti he took twenty points from his political boss, 53.3% (46,485) against 33.3% (31,411). In the Argentine Malvinas, Leonardo Nardini obtained 49.9% (85,884) compared to 38.1 (72,830) for Massa and Grabois.
