Larreta capitalized on the victory of Juntos por el Cambio in Jujuy in the fight with Bullrich. Alberto Fernández travels to La Rioja. Milei’s misstep
By Pablo Sieira
07/05/2023 – 23,26hs
The second important appointment in the electoral calendar celebrated Together for Change in Jujuy, where the victory of Carlos Hadir strengthened the governor and presidential candidate of the UCR, Gerardo Morales, and the axis that conforms with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta in the national internal force, while in La Rioja the Frente de Todos celebrates and the “Milei phenomenon” begins to show its limits.
Along with Misiones, the three provinces elected their governors and in all of them the ruling party triumphed with a comfortable advantage. But 48 days after the closing of the lists for the national primaries (PASO), the results have an importance that goes beyond the local, as shown by President Alberto Fernández, Rodríguez Larreta and the radical Martín Lousteau when traveling to show themselves with the winners.
Hadir became the new governor of Jujuy with almost 50% of the votes and some 30 points of difference over a divided Peronism. It was a victory for Morales, who has governed the district on behalf of the UCR for 8 years and capitalized on the victory for his presidential project but shared it with Rodríguez Larreta, embarking on the same race.
Both maintain an alliance within Together for Change that became increasingly explicit over the months and finds its counterpart in the axis embodied by Patricia Bullrich and other leaders of radicalism such as Alfredo Cornejo or Carolina Losada, candidates to governors of Mendoza and Santa Fe, respectively.
For this reason, the result of the elections in Jujuy has its impact on the internal of the main opposition alliance in the face of the electoral assembly for the PASO and Larreta did not deprive himself of traveling to the north together with Lousteau, the candidate for head of the Buenos Aires Government What more noise in the PRO’s wrestling for the City, to celebrate with a radical leader. It is a sub alliance that is strengthened.
Elections in Jujuy: the triumph of Morales and the impact on JvC
Until now Jujuy’s Finance Minister became governor-elect with 49% of the vote. With only 21% of the tables scrutinized, the favorable trend for the Sadir-Alberto Bernis formula was already irreversible given that in a very distant second place with 20% was Rubén Rivarola, the head of the Jujuy PJ who headed the closest list to the national ruling party, with leaders of massismo and La Cámpora, of the three Peronist offers.
Larreta and Morales, together with Loustau, make up a key internal line for the PASO of Together for Change
The candidate of the Left Front, deputy Alejandro Vilca, got just 14% and was far from repeating the feat of the 2021 legislative elections, when he obtained 25% and fought for second place against the Front of All. The space denounced irregularities but the day passed normally.
It was an overwhelming victory for Morales, who also drew votes by appearing on the ballot as a candidate for conventional constituent of the province. The president of the UCR thus revalidated his territorial power and ensured a greater national projection, two key elements for the negotiations and the electoral assembly of Together for Change at the national level.
The Unity for Jujuy list that led Juan Cardozo Traillou as a candidate was fourth with 7%. It is a defeat that also symbolizes the strength of Morales, given that this list had the support of two sworn enemies of the radical: national senator Guillermo Snopek and Kirchnerist leader Milagro Sala, imprisoned for corruption since 2016.
The victory of the Larreta-Morales-Lousteau axis
With all this in view, Morales celebrated the victory with Larreta smiling at his side. After noting that his strength achieved “a tremendous result in the capital and in the interior of the tremendous province,” he especially thanked the Buenos Aires head of government: “Candidate for president just like me,” he said, while both patted each other’s shoulders .
He also greeted Lousteau who, according to what he said, “is going to replace” Larreta in the City. But more important than that support (logical, since it was the Buenos Aires candidate from his party) was Morales’s gesture of giving the PRO’s national referent the microphone to express a speech with a clear presidential tone.
“This is a victory for Together for Change in a country that wants change and this is the way,” said Larreta, while stressing: “It is a recognition of Gerardo’s very good management of the government, which he gave me I identify, and recognition of order, we can live in an Argentina in peace”.
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