The intern of Together for Change accelerates in the strategic Buenos Aires provincewhere Horacio Rodriguez Larreta tries to pressure together with mayors and candidates so that Diego Santilli is the only candidate for governorwhile the sector of Patricia Bullrich has conversations with municipal referents of the libertarian Javier Miley.
In the district that represents 37% of the national register and that will have primaries (PASO) on the same day as the presidential ones, the political thread has two dimensions: one is the definition of the gubernatorial candidates between the varied offer that Juntos por el Cambio has today and the other is for the municipalities in each municipality.
There is a pressure that grows from the bottom up. The mayors and municipal referents began to warn that the internal and public fights between the national referents of the force, with Larreta, Bullrich and Mauricio Macri at the center of the scene, are beginning to have negative repercussions on the electorate.
“You can tell when you go out to explore a neighborhood, every time more people ask us please to stop fighting and let us agree,” a PRO leader who is running as a mayoral candidate in a municipality in the Third Electoral Section, the most populous in the Province, indicated to iProfessional.
In this sense, he evaluated that the ideal way to order the internal one would be that, if there is no agreement between the pre-candidates for president, it is possible, at least, to synthesize the offer of Together for Change in the Province with a single candidate for governor. Larretismo takes advantage of the weather to raise Santilli.
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Sources that participate in the armed electoral complex of Together for Change in the Buenos Aires territory told this outlet that Larreta is seeking align mayors and community leaders in support of Santilliwhich would remove support from the other PRO applicants such as Christian Ritondo (mainly supported by María Eugenia Vidal and Macri), Joaquin de la Torre y Javier Iguacel (Bullrich referents).
Together for Change has several pre-candidates for governor and Larreta tries to clear the way for Santilli
The first step was taken by Mayor of Dolores, Camilo Etchevarren, who last Friday, after meeting with Santilli, expressed: “We are fed up with this fight that leads to nothing. The idea is to unify the candidacy of the most voted and today the candidate who is leading head with the governor (Axel Kicillof) is Diego Santilli”.
The move is complemented by the message that Larreta and Santilli left during a recent visit to Olavarría, where they pointed out that their priority is the re-election of the mayors of Together for Change. “The important is that the PRO continue to govern in the municipalities that we have“said the Buenos Aires head of government and presidential candidate.
For the communal leaders of the opposition, it was an important sign because it means that the presidential candidate and his bishop for the Buenos Aires race they would not support other leaders who seek to compete in the PASO against the mayors on duty. We will have to see what the sector led by Bullrich would do, if necessary.
What happens between Milei and Bullrich?: municipal contacts and national noise
While the larretismo tries to clear the way for Santilli, his main rival in the internal He lets his pre-candidates run for the Governorate while playing his game, just at a time when Milei’s growth in the polls is again generating noise and mistrust in the opposition alliance.
One of the candidates for La Libertad Avanza, Milei’s party, in the Third Section confirmed to iProfessional that “people who work with Patricia and De la Torre” contacted him to meet with him. Although he clarified that nothing is closed and that “everything is still up in the air”, the talks to probe possible electoral alchemies are taking place at that level.
“The problem is that Javier has already suggested to Patricia that any type of agreement it has to be outside of Juntos and obviously that is very difficult“Revealed the municipal leader. Indeed, that is not an acceptable option for the leader at the moment.
Milei makes noise and there are contacts with Bullrich in some municipalities, but the PRO reference puts cold cloths
This Monday the libertarian once again generated tension in Together for Change by stating that “there is time” to “create a new space and make an internal” between him and Bullrichand added: “If she wins, I will accompany.”
However, after that statement The former Minister of Security tried to drive away the specter of a possible rupture due to a hypothetical electoral agreement with Milei categorically: “I am from Together for Change, full stop”he responded in journalistic statements.
Does the fight have a solution?: Carrió shoots and Vidal launches his proposal
Milei’s invitation to the “hard” sector of the PRO did not seem innocent, given that it came just after the leader of the Civic Coalition, Elisa Carrió, accuse Macri of wanting to break Together for Change: “He does not want to be with radicalism or with the Civic Coalition, he wants to be with Milei“, launched the former deputy.
The strong signaling of Carrió took place on the same night that the PRO celebrated the historic triumph in Neuquén of the governor-elect, rolando figueroawhom he supported in the campaign, despite the fact that the official candidate of Together for Change, Pablo Cervi, lost and was behind Milei’s applicant. Cervi was supported precisely by Carrió and the UCR.
Thus, the internship and the intrigues in the province of Buenos Aires reflect the climate of permanent tension experienced by the alliance at the national level and especially the PRO, where Vidal now came to propose “lowering all the candidacies” to “give an internal discussion about what the rules will be to compete.”
Vidal gave as an example the step aside in the presidential race that Macri gave, something that had a first negative effect for the former president when Larreta decided to split the vote in the City of Buenos Airesa move that the founder of the PRO interpreted as favorable to Lousteau’s candidacy and detrimental to his candidate, Jorge Macri.
The Buenos Aires bid could be central to the internal one in the Province. And it is that Larreta keeps Fernán Quirós and Soledad Acuña in the PRO race and delays support for a “single candidate” that he himself advanced weeks ago. Macri hopes that it will be for his cousin, but this could be the bargaining chip to ask that Santilli be the only one in the Province, according to some operators of the opposition alliance.
