At times it seemed that Peronism could keep the city. Surveys, campaign enthusiasm, optimistic halls. But the votes said something else: freedom progress won with Manuel Adorni As a disruptive emblem and left Leandro Santoro in second place. Even so, Alejandro “Pitu” Salvatierraelected legislator and one of the new figures of Buenos Aires Peronism, prefers to see the vessel half full: “I think we didn’t make a bad choice as some want to read it. If a year and a half ago, after losing the presidential presidential”
Salvatierra analyzed the results in an interview conducted in Wake Upthe program Delta 90.3where he also remarked that “It seems to me that the most alarming thing that left us yesterday’s choice is the low participation. One in two Buenos Aires decided not to vote, he did not feel represented or seduced by any of the electoral options that were presented. That is a very important fact to take into account and analyze”
In the southern Porteño, where Peronism usually has greater territorial anchor, the weather played against. “The context affected us a lot: we came three days of very strong storms. We find neighbors drying mattresses, wet clothes, taking mud from their homes. We try to help them vote in those conditions. Imagine how complicated the situation was”, Said the legislator.
The campaign, at times, rose to an overflowing optimism. “In recent weeks they drawn a victory that was obviously not so real. I never believed it. Some colleagues were excited about that expectation that we could win the choice, but the result we obtained was positive”, He said. And he synthesized it with a self -criticism:“It seems to me that there was a wind of triumphalism in the closure of campaign that did not do us well. That makes some look at the result with a negative reading, but it is analyzed with coldness, it was a good choice. Even in historically difficult communes, we won or were very few votes to do so”
Beyond the punctual result, Salvatierra celebrates what he considers an institutional advance: “The city legislature ceased to be a scribe for the PRO. Today there is a new composition: Peronism has 20 legislators, La Libertad advances 13, Pro 10, evolution (larretism) 5, UCR 5, left 2 and the civic coalition 1. That opens the possibility of building alliances to curb negative advances and proposing positive policies for Buenos Aires”
The key, he says, will be to know how to read the new political map. “We have new opportunities to build bridges, to build alliances with other spaces that are perhaps more permeable to our ideas. That leaves us a perspective towards 2027 different from the one we had been driving”
On a personal level, the choice had a special taste for him. “I do not see the result of yesterday as other colleagues as negative. Perhaps it is because I am still impregnated with the joy of knowing that, for the first time, a villero will be sitting in a bank of the Buenos Aires legislature. For us that is something very important”
It was not an easy campaign. “La Libertad progresses went directly against me during the campaign, seeking to attack and discredit myself. But we are accustomed. We know what politics implies in these times, and we hope that for the next campaigns that resource is already exhausted”
Far from declaring defeat as the end, Salvatierra sees it as a new beginning. “Shortly many time ago they said that Peronism was dead in the city. Today we not only got second place, but we are the first legislative minority. That is not less if one puts it in context”
In a scenario where the PRO was third and blurred, Peronism resists, reconfigures and, with figures like Salvatierra, begins to project beyond 2025. The blow was strong, but not final. As he would say: there is still room to surprise.
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