The electoral scenario in the Province does not finish clearing up. Axel Kicillof seeks to go for re-election but Kirchnerism does not finish confirming it. In Together for Change there is strong pressure to anoint a single candidate for Governor in the midst of the fierce presidential dispute between Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich. In the midst of a strong game of crossed pressures, the uncertainty that exists at the national level and in another of the key districts such as the Federal Capital, conspire so that the Buenos Aires scenario provides a certain dose of clarity just over two months after the closing of the lists .
Kicillof has just moved an important chip on the official board: he called Primary elections for August 13 simultaneously with the date on which they will be held at the national level. However, he missed a central issue: the call for general elections. It is common for governors to issue a single decree to encompass the two calls, but the Buenos Aires president dodged that custom. The reason, according to what official sources admit, refers to the dispute with Alberto Fernández.
The fact of keeping that letter up his sleeve and threatening an unlikely electoral split (the Province could legally advance the general elections up to four weeks even though it would face enormous inconveniences to organize them) aims to pressure the President to give up his own candidacy by leaving him orphan of the key thrust of Buenos Aires Peronism. The extreme of this move highlights the tension that is breathed in the Frente de Todos: Kirchnerism demands that Alberto Fernández run out of the electoral race and interprets that the lack of definition ends up eroding the chances of the ruling party, already diminished by a social situation and very complex economy to which inflation gives another push every month.
That movement in an electoral key is combined with another: the willingness of Kirchnerism to give air to the national candidacy of Daniel Scioli. He opened the doors for her in Quilmes, the territory run by camper Mayra Mendoza. Quite a gesture in the middle of the official dispute. This signal does not imply that the current ambassador in Brazil ends up being the name blessed by Cristina Kirchner, but at least it could pass the K filter for a competition in the Paso against a list if you want more similar to the vice president.
Close to Kicillof they watch all these movements with painstaking attention. The alternative of his own national candidacy remains latent if the ruling board is not ordered. The Governor only aspires to a new term, but at the same time he fears that the lack of a blockbuster name will end up pushing him into a fight that he does not want to give, at least in this electoral turn.
In the Province, the opposition coalition also seems tied to other people’s decisions. In particular, the outcome of a play that, according to different versions, tries to fasten in the Federal Capital as a formula for agreement after the tension generated between Rodríguez Larreta and Mauricio Macri.
Various versions go around the convulsed PRO scenario. One of them suggests that the former president would be thinking of María Eugenia Vidal as a candidate in the Buenos Aires district. The former governor does not want to know anything. There are those who say that there are many pressures to convince her of it. The strong political fact is that after the separation of the national elections from the Buenos Aires elections (even when they will be held on the same day), Jorge Macri, the former president’s first choice, was left without the crucial push of the presidential candidates.
In the PRO, fear begins to arise in the face of the possibility that a critical mass will end up forming to make Macri bite the dust, deal him a defeat and leave him without his golden territory. Any underground help from sectors of Peronism and the PRO itself so that the radical Martín Lousteau wins? The question flies over with a stalking tone.
Vidal could, as a synthesis candidate, suture part of the wounds that were opened between Larreta and Macri and, perhaps, avoid that setback. This eventual decision could end up impacting the Province where the PRO has several candidates on the field. Some versions say that if that Buenos Aires synthesis were to take place, Larreta would ask to unify the Buenos Aires offer with Diego Santilli at the helm.
No one knows for sure how that multiway play will play out. But in the PRO and in the UCR voices are already emerging that speak of the need for the category of Governor to have no Step. In the next few hours several mayors will charge with that position with the dissemination of a public document. They fear that if there is an internal party in that section of the ballot they will be dragged into a defeat in their districts. Bullrich opposes all those rinses and wants to confront in all categories. It is not a minor obstacle to that idea of synthesis.
