At least from the gesture, Patricia Bullrich seemed to take a stride ahead of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. If what they were both looking for was a blessing from Mauricio Macri to his candidacies on the trips they made by separate string to meet with the former president in Villa La Angostura, they did not succeed. But the former Minister of Security took at least one of the trophies that she went to look for: the photo with the founder of PRO that the mayor of Buenos Aires could not get.
That gesture from Macri towards his former Minister of Security contrasted with the null dissemination of the meeting with Larreta days before. The former president was in charge of uploading the snapshot to his social networks. Before, he had scored another sign in favor of Bullrich: it was when he invited her to her house in the beautiful Neuquén landscape, a call that he extended to the husband of the candidate.
These signs appear in the midst of a central uncertainty: whether Macri himself will be a presidential candidate. In sources close to Bullrich they say that he slipped that he will not sign up in the cart to return to the Casa Rosada. Also, that he intends that the PRO application arises from a Primary. Although this last lack of definition suggests a certain equidistance, the gestures of support for the former Minister of Security were marked.
For example, another button is enough: Bullrich had planned to return from Neuquén in the morning, but Macri extended the invitation to share lunch and he had to change the flight.
Patricia Bullrich
Although there is no break between Macri and Larreta, the relationship does not seem so symbiotic. From what is known, the former president is angry with the Buenos Aires mayor for some of his latest moves. For example, the incorporation of the economist Martín Redrado to his team. He believes that it is about the arrival of a “massista” to the government of the Federal Capital of which he feels jealous custodian.
There was another movement in the last hours that accentuated the differences. He was the one who produced the statements by Jorge Macri, candidate for Larreta’s succession, when he came out to rush him so that he does not support the candidacy of the radical Martín Lousteau.
The mayor came out to answer him with a photo, a kind of return of courtesies to Jorge’s older cousin: he showed himself with Emanuel Ferrario, another of the candidates for the Buenos Aires government on the PRO side.
Larreta’s possible support for Lousteau had already generated a strong short circuit: Bullrich was quick to react and took a photo with Jorge Macri.
Horacio Rodriguez Larreta
This climate of tension has as a backdrop the ideological profile that a future government of Together for Change would have. Bullrich and Macri believe in shock policies in the first days of the government, while Larreta is inclined to advance in political agreements to promote reforms.
The same is believed by the radicals who orbit close to the Buenos Aires mayor, such as Gerardo Morales and also Elisa Carrió, who in the last few hours came out to say that she could be a presidential candidate in the midst of a dispute in the PRO that seems to bring Macri closer to Bullrich than Larreta.
