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Buenos Aires radicalism will place its own candidate on the stage of the Juntos por el Cambio intern. Maximiliano Abad will formally register as a candidate for Governor and will thus seek to occupy an empty space in the midst of the constellation of applicants deployed by the PRO.
The move that will take place on Friday in Mar del Plata will have a distinctive feature: its strictly Buenos Aires identity. To avoid contamination with the national dispute, no presidential candidate from the party will be present at the event that will take place at the Once Unidos club. Nor will there be governors or national legislators from other provinces. The exception will be Ernesto Sanz from Mendoza, closely related to Abad.
That face-to-face gap sought expressly will be compensated with videos that will be shown by both Facundo Manes and Gerardo Morales, and by the governors Gustavo Valdés (Corrientes) and Rodolfo Suárez (Mendoza) with messages of support for the commitment that the majority of the UCR in the Province. They will not be the only ones: Deputy Mario Negri and Senators Luis Naidenof and Carolina Losada, among others, will join the virtual support.
“The idea of the absences has to do with the fact that they seek to highlight the Buenos Aires nature of the activity. The launch is that of a candidate for governor for the Province and it is sought that neither the presences or the statements that national figures could make end up overshadowing that purpose, ”say sources close to the organization.
The idea of decaffeinating the act is, paradoxically, the way to promote it that the radicals found to put Abad on the court. And go out to occupy a space that the centenary party had been ceding almost without kicking in the face of the ambition of the PRO that for a long time has made Diego Santilli (aligned with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta) walk through the Province, Cristian Ritondo (referenced with María Eugenia Vidal) and Néstor Grindetti, Joaquín De la Torre and Javier Iguacel (all three report to Patricia Bullrich).
In a somewhat erratic path in relation to the project of having their own candidate, some time ago the national deputy Martín Tetaz, aligned with Martín Lousteau, began to visit the Province. And another who wants to is the mayor of San Isidro, Gustavo Posse, who said that he would like to govern the main district of the country. Abad, on Friday, will go from being flirtatious with that possibility to standing up as a declared candidate.
The provincial deputy from Mar del Plata has been gaining political volume since he assumed the presidency of the Buenos Aires Committee of Radicalism after winning an internal adjustment to Posse. He was one of the architects of Facundo Manes ending up becoming a candidate for national deputy in 2021 and facing Santilli in the Buenos Aires Paso de Juntos por el Cambio. The push that was generated from the Province so that Manes’s brother, Gastón, was perched as president of the strategic National Convention of the party, in charge of defining alliance policies, was also decisive.
The bet will have the support of the majority of the mayors, legislators and councilors, who for weeks have been singing on social networks supporting Abad’s candidacy.
With the official announcement, the Buenos Aires UCR will begin to retrace the path towards the definitions of the lists under the umbrella of Together for Change. Abad, anointed as the postulant of a good part of the party, is preparing to assume a central role in arming the opposition. Negotiator and candidate for governor. Or applicant to another space if at some point the idea of crossed formulas prospers.
