Yamil Santoro spent the afternoon of Wednesday 26 answering the challenge that Peronism made on the logo which presented for the mid -term elections in the city. In the party that will take Leandro Santoro as a candidate, they understood that the liberal deputy is a revived: that he copied the traditional union logo for the homeland (a celestial escarapela with the acronym UP in the center) to confuse the electorate with the symbol plus his last name and drag votes towards his list. Now justice demands that you redesign it.
However, the most daring movement would arrive at the end of the week: Yamil announced that who will lead the list is his brother, Leandro. The confusion is total. The dispute Leandro Santoro vs. Leandro Santoro It is underway.
The Santoro contest.
Occupied in a campaign that has it as one of the favorites, at least in the starting line, Leandro Santoro tries not to get tangled up in controversy: “That is directly handled by PJ. I don’t give importance,” he tells news.
But in Peronism they did not take it as a minor issue. They understood that with that play, Yamil could take votes to be needed: the young deputy of the city registered an alliance called Liberal Buenos Aires Union, but only the UP acronym appears in the logo and the same colors that Peronism used during many elections: light blue, white and yellow.
“We denied that there is any attempt to replicate, reproduce or confuse the logo used by the already dissolved Union for the Homeland in the elections of the year 2023,” says the response presented in Justice by Yamil at the end of this edition. “The idea occurred to me. It is a creative genius,” the liberal leader tells news. And protest: “They are not using it. They have no right to consider this challenge. They cannot appropriate the climb.” The Buenos Aires Electoral Court gave him a hard setback. He argued that this image could lead to “mistakes” and now he will have to register another logo.
Financial analyst Carlos Maslatón was encouraged to put figures to Yamil Santoro’s play: If his strategy prospered, “he could have captured at least 15,000 votes due to this ‘alienation’ of the electorate,” he ventured. Now the movement comes from the confusion of names: he first put his brother Leandro on the list, although years ago he lives in Europe.
Despite the judicial brake, Yamil does not consider the strategy a failure. His play allowed him to take a place in a hard campaign that will end at the polls on May 18. He gave visibility. Better standing, Leandro is prudent: “It is a choice that will be defined on the end. Very disputed. Zero exitism,” he says.
