The enda of the end in his bunker says a lot about what Horacio Rodríguez Larreta happened in these last two years. “We returned,” shouts. “I returned,” he then listens to his team’s song. A man who had prepared, and came to feel it in advance, to be president and who suddenly found himself in the plain. A leader who had to recalculate his career and will now try to rebuild himself from the Buenos Aires Legislature. But above all, a militant who was banished from his party, but who had his revenge. Not only did it come back, but the return served to leave the Pro project seriously injured.
Far was the former head of government to give a batacazo. But given the circumstances, in his small table they were satisfied with stealing a series of points that served him to be a Buenos Aires deputy and to show them that they needed him inside. He took 8% and was fourth. The PRO, with the entire government apparatus, was third and could not even double it in votes. That is your victory.
Larreta’s revenge.
In the middle of the celebration, Larreta made the “Gigio Topo” to Mauricio Macri. Imitating the gesture that Juan Román Riquelme immortalized on the Boca court, put his hands on his ears inviting the former president to hear what was happening. He did not do one, but several times.
It is that for the former Buenos Aires mayor, this election not only means his return to political activity but also a reconstruction. Since Macri turned his back as a candidate for president, Larreta had to start making a duel of the party that collaborated to build And take care of thinking a plan B with a small working group, the few who stayed when there was no more device.
Therefore, so much message against Jorge Macri: “The city is wrong, it is not what it was: there is a lot, there is smell of pee,” he said. And completed: “The management is bad, you do not work on what the city needs: security, there are zero works. It is what they claimed in each neighborhood.”
Pro criticism of his decision to go outside multiplied in the light of the results. “Yesterday they made the worst choice in history; that they stop looking responsible and work, ”he replied.
His team, who was dragged into ostracism with the former mayor, also downloaded against Jorge Macri. They invented a song that they continued singing throughout the week, post elections: “Jorge Macri gave the calesite and the useless overturned it,” they said.
The reconstruction of the former head of government.
It was barely the beginning of the Revenge Plan. “This 8% is a starting point,” they analyzed in their space after the choice. Larreta needs to stand out in the legislature to have chances in two years of competing for what really interests her: the executive function. He wants to return to the Head of Government. “We are going to recover the city,” he told.
It has several inconveniences to solve. He understood that doing a campaign without structure is not easy. But the main problem is that I should beat all devices to achieve its goal: to the national government, to the premises and the Peronism. Can? He says yes.
For that, the candidate of Avenida del Medio should succeed, something that did not happen in any of the previous elections. But the former mayor considers that he should not change, but that society will require otherwise. It protects that they will value their management, beyond political parties. Everything is to be seen.
His personal challenge will be able to stand out in the legislative body, being a leader so linked to the executive function. But it was the only way out of the plain and took it.
His return to active politics has a special flavor. With revenge against a Macri who rejected him in the presidential intern against Patricia Bullrich, although he had promised to be equanimous; And then, with the Acassuso pact, he left him in an awkward situation: No place inside a PRO that would be transformed into a permanent government collaborator. The long -term goal is double: recover the city and bury the former president’s project.
