Work hard on your campaign Patricia Bullrich. It adds collaborators and allies in all the provinces and it can be said that from nothing, it has built a competitive structure throughout the country. But there is a district that is substantial and where it has serious armed problems: the Province of Buenos Aires.
It goes without saying that we are referring to the primary elections, where he will face the Buenos Aires Head of Government, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, that unlike his rival, he has had everything figured out in the Province for a while: Diego Santilli is the undisputed candidate. He is a better or worse candidate, having things on track dilutes the first problem and allows us to think about the campaign, the proposals, the strategy. Without a candidate, that is rather complex.
Bullrich has three short-lived applicants in Buenos Aires. One is Javier Iguacel, the mayor of the small town of Capitán Sarmiento. The fans of “la Piba” put all the chips on him, but Iguacel does not rise in the polls “not even with a winch”, they say in his environment. Another is the former mayor of San Miguel, Joaquín de la Torre, with much more presence in the suburbs but also of little public knowledge.
As a “donation” from Mauricio Macri he received Nestor Grindetti, the mayor of Lanús. Everyone values him as a political figure. He is one of the few community leaders of the second cordon of the PRO suburbs, he governed two terms efficiently, he will respect the original idea of a single re-election, but leaves his dauphin, Diego Kravetz, on the verge of candy to succeed him. However Gindetti, does not rise in the measurements either.
Ritondo with Bullrich?
Since the defection of Mary Eugenia Vidal, the one who fights to join the group is Cristian Ritondo. It closes Bullrich, he knows the Province, he was Minister of Security in Vidal’s administration, when “la Piba” administered the same area in the Nation and they have known how to work well together. He has more public knowledge than the other three combined, although it is not clear how much intention to vote. He doesn’t seem to be a winning candidate, although he is, with much better chances than the other three, especially the first two.
Grindetti has a big bet on his hands. He has just taken over the presidency of Independiente in the midst of a phenomenal crisis and the famous collection of Santiago Maratea, with the club falling apart on the verge of its demise. If in a couple of months the mayor of Lanús balances it, he could be a great candidate, due to the number of fans that the sports institution has and the public knowledge that he could achieve.
Patricia Bullrich has serious problems in the Buenos Aires army, a key district and with simultaneous elections with the national ones
Bullrich’s followers insist on Iguacel, but apply for Macri’s former highway official it would be a pointless whimis to give away a key district, where the candidate for president must drag the candidate for governor, but also vice versa.
“Javier is a love, but here you have to win the election and he has 4 votes, they are the 4 who support him on Twitter” they say in the environment of the former Minister of Security.
The mayor of La Plata, another headache for Bullrich
Another serious problem that Patricia has is the administration of the provincial capital, La Plata. There, Larreta promotes the second re-election of Julio Garro. For his part, Bullrich referred the local armed groups to Emilio Monzowhich stimulates the candidacy of Juan Pablo Allan, a provincial legislator who became moderately famous for the cause of the “macrista judicial Gestapo”, an organization apparently led by Vidal’s former Minister of Labor, Marcelo Villegas, several civil servants and agents of intelligence, which filed legal cases against trade unionists.
Allan was part of that “operating table” He was filmed and his image broadcast and he is being prosecuted for these facts. “Launching a campaign with a totally unknown guy in La Plata and who is also being prosecuted is a serious mistake,” they say in the vicinity of Bullrich, quite upset.
“We are going with transparency, with the fact that we are something else and we are applying for a defendant, what to tell you,” laments the same source, not without reason. Arming legal cases against people, even though the victims are not Discalced Carmelites either, does not seem like an expected practice from those who say they are different. “We are the change or we are nothing” the bullrichistas repeat, running headlong against the nomination of a candidate with current prosecution.
To make matters worse, in the mentideros of La Plata, it is said that Allan integrated into his team two people disowned throughout the La Plata political arc. One would be his campaign manager, a former PRO councilor: Fernando “Cortito” Ponce. The right one, so nicknamed because of his very discreet stature, is dealing with a criminal case for sexual harassment and attempted abuse, when, according to the complainant and former employee of the same, Annabella Beltrachini, he tried to force her to perform oral sex on him in the office of she. The complaint against little Ponce was made at UFI 16 by prosecutor Juan Cruz Condomí Alcorta.
Ponce already had other complaints of gender violence, and even one from the former councilor of the same city, Victoria Tolosa Paz, after he publicly denigrated her in a session and the entire body forced him to apologize to his colleague.
Néstor Grindetti, one of the names that Bullrich is considering in the Province
Allan sums up negative aspects
Not content with the incorporation of the minuscule alleged abuser, Allan continues to collect jewels that scare bullrichism and of course, voters. Another side of him would be Simeon Wiochi. This leader is a native of the province of La Pampa, where he had already had problems with the female militants of the PRO and later ended up at the National University of La Plata, thus settling in the city. He put together a group of followers and ended up being awarded by Mayor Garro with the Directorate of Collectivities and Traditionalism of the Municipality of the city of Diagonals.
That was where Wiochi would have returned to his old ways. A militant denounced him before the prosecutor’s office number 13 in charge of Mariana Ruffino, for having “groped” her in an attempted sexual abuse, during a PRO party from La Plata. In fact, the young woman presented as proof of the aggression, marks from the various blows that the pampean would have given her, as part of her failed sexual attempt.
Such a group of defendants and alleged abusers put the Bullrich’s electoral chances in the provincial capital, especially because “everyone here knows what doesn’t reach Buenos Aires, this is a town,” says a concerned leader from La Plata of the hosts of “la Piba.”
“The provincial army is our Achilles heel. Iguacel can lead us to an electoral paper, and the band that Monzó and (Marcelo) Daletto put together in La Plata is a lamentable ghost train, Allan and his stalkers get 10 votes,” says an authoritative voice concerned about Bullrich’s fate. And He is right: the Province is key and the collection of improvised, prosecuted and leaders with a reputation for harassing, does not collaborate.
