For these hours, while the echoes of the festivities last and also of the bitterness left by Sunday, in Together for Change they searched Article 99 of the Electoral Code porteño. “Within forty-eight (48) hours of receiving the notification of its proclamation, the candidate for Head of Government of each political group must propose to the political group in question the candidate for Vice Head of Government that will accompany him/her in the formula in the general election”, reads the text. The sectors that won and also those that lost began to send their proposals to Jorge Macrithe candidate who passed the STEP to compete for the succession of Horacio Rodriguez Larreta.
There is some time: the proclamation would be at the end of this week, so the Minister of Government of the Buenos aires city would have at least until next Tuesday to define his partner or his running mate. Offers are not lacking and there is only one impediment: it cannot be someone who has competed in the primaries for a Buenos Aires office.
Soledad Acuna
Until the victory of Patricia Bullrich, the Minister of Education of the City had almost all the numbers. Acuña arrived as a candidate for head of government until the final stretch, but she was left on the way. She was one of the last to step aside from her to pave the way for Macri, with whom she met several times to leave photographic records. With hawk DNA, her figure is referenced in larretism, so nominating her would be like pay the outgoing mayor.
“Come on Sole! I trust your leadership and your ability, that’s why I think you are of great value to integrate the formula that, hand in hand with the PRO, continues the transformations that we have been carrying out,” Larreta celebrated his resignation, in May. At the time of the closing of the lists, as plan B, he guaranteed her a plan B by adding her to lead the Parlasur section. Close to the PRO candidate they do not dismiss it outright, but they do not put too many chips on it either. “If Horacio had won it was another story,” they explain.
Ricardo Lopez Murphy
Speaking of resignations, the former minister resigned twice this year: first as a presidential candidate and, later, as a candidate in the City, a move that led him to leave the party he founded, united republicanswhich was left in the hands of Roberto Garcia Moritan. He bulldog opted for Bullrich, who in turn supported Jorge Macri to differentiate himself from Larreta, who was inclined towards Martin Lousteau after Fernan Quiros didn’t make it to the final. All condiments of a novel. López Murphy’s bet was a seed that could germinate: close to the Minister of Government they say that they received a “suggestion” from the brand new presidential candidate of JxC so that the name of the economist appears on the electronic voting screen next to that of Macri .
the ucr
“They have half of the Legislature, we cannot ignore them,” they say in the metropolitan yellow party of their radical partners. With denunciations of apocryphal posters and an anger that is far from appeased by the campaign against Franco Rinaldiwho was part of the JxC legislative list until his resignation due to his controversial statements in old streams-, they don’t want to give Losteau a coin. Different is the ecosystem that surrounded the defeated in the internal. The command of Jorge Macri received the name of Mariela Coletta, who in 2021 became the first woman to chair the Buenos Aires committee of the UCR. Does she have a chance of being the candidate for deputy head of government? few. It is more probable that the neo-macrismo of the city will pay the centenary party in the ministerial division.
Garcia Moritan
“Moritán asks for Moritán” is the phrase, half jokingly and half seriously. He is another who until the last moment maintained his claims to be a candidate, but got off in the last few meters. “We are going to recover order and freedom in the City of Buenos Aires,” announced the leader of Republicanos Unidos on July 28, when he confirmed that he was joining the ranks of Jorge Macrismo. It was after the departure of López Murphy from the party, because, in theory, the two could not be candidates for head of government.
Before his resignation, a survey of Federico González and Associates located Moritán with 2.9% voting intentiona very low number to win, but not such a number to make it count now: the difference between Macri and Lousteau was 1.5%. The joke that circulates is that the legislator deserves more than two ministries. “He doesn’t have a commoner”, they lower him ashore near the PRO candidate, but no one denies that he will receive anything. Could it be the jackpot?
And outsider
“The nomination has to give the message that we understood what the polls said on Sunday,” they analyze in the Buenos Aires PRO regarding the impact of the phenomenon of Javier Miley in the STEP. The reflection would result in the election of a figure outside traditional politics, such as someone from civil society, but associated with the yellow force. Most identified for being the husband of the actress Pampita Ardohain that for his less than two years as a legislator, the name of Moritán could also fit in this section. Close to Jorge Macri they avoid filtering options.
Another variant in this category would be a figure contributed by the macrismo himself, both Jorge and Mauricio. The former mayor of Vicente López left part of his troops on the other side of General Paz and it is unlikely that he will lose his stronghold. On Sunday, the current community chief, Soledad Martinezwas imposed by a large majority against Union for the Homeland (UP).
