Mauricio Macri He decided to apply a business logic to his political party. In his role as President of the PRO, he activated a kind of “Chapter 11 “: An orderly restructuring process, which instead of seeking to save the company, aims to reduce, contain damage and, if necessary, liquidate what is left with the least possible cost. The founder of the yellow party does not fight for his survival, but to control his closure. As in business: when the cycle ends, the important thing is to handle the end with strategic advantage.
In US legislation, the Chapter 11 (A process that avoids bankruptcy) allows a company in crisis to maintain its activity while restructuring its debt and decides whether to continue operating or dissolves in an orderly manner. That metaphor, transferred to the political plane, crudely describes the current status of the PRO. There is no longer ambition for expansion, or vocation for consolidating new leaderships. Only the administration of the sunset remains. And Macri seems to have understood before anyone else.
The former president made it clear in a recent zoom with national leaders of the PRO: his horizon is no longer partisan policy, but the world of global sport. His true obsession is in FIFA. There, in the red circle of Gianni Infantinothe Argentine former president sees the opportunity of an international succession that seduces him much more than any local candidacy. It was an unexpected confession for those present, but consistent with their last movements.
While delegating the yellow brand in lady, in controversial agreements with the libertarian ruling, Macri would begin the takeoff of the party legacy. He is not worried about the exodus of referents or the ideological vacuum. In fact, it conducive it. The important thing is to prevent the PRO from becoming a load. That is why it promotes an alliance that liquefies the party within La Libertad advances. And therefore, also, let the moderates leave alone.
Chau Chau Mariu?
The fracture is no longer a threat in the PRO. The recent agreement between the PRO and La Libertad advances in the city of Buenos Aires ended up accelerating a process that had been going since Mauricio Macri and Patricia Bullrich chose to embrace the Milei model. And if something was missing to leave it in evidence, it was the critical voice of María Eugenia Vidalone of the most emblematic figures of the party.
“Say the internal discussion, but I do not share this decision or accompany it,” said former Buenos Aires governor in a video that did not need euphemisms. His rejection of the alliance with the libertarians in CABA is not just a personal testimony: it is the synthesis of the discomfort of a part of the PRO that feels that the party lost its identity, its north and – especially – its autonomy.
Vidal is not the first to mark distance. Before he did Horacio Rodríguez Larretawho abandoned the internal life of the party when Macri and Bullrich bleached their support for Milei. And more recently, María Eugenia Talerico emigrated, who will be a candidate together with the MID in the province of Buenos Aires.
See you in Disney
What is taking place is not a simple leak, but an ideological rearrangement. The sector that defended a “liberal center” within the PRO today faces an existential dilemma: staying and accepting a gradual solution in the libertarian system, or reconstructing an alternative from the outside, perhaps under new acronyms, but with the same principles.
Vidal’s message was clear and firm: “I don’t business my convictions. It is not worth everything for a position.” And it was also a call for attention for those who still doubt: staying in the pro as it can imply renouncing what the pro once represented.
The former governor clarified that she will not be a candidate, but that she will continue to work from the Think Foundation to try a deep renewal of the party. However, gestures weigh more than the statements, and their decision not to accompany the electoral agreement in CABA has domino effect. Others will jump shortly in search of a better destination.
Referents of the rearmed
The situation is paradoxical. The same party that was born two decades ago to renew politics, faces its own identity crisis today. And the strategy of “sticking” to Milei – as was done in the province of Buenos Aires to defeat Peronism – no longer serves as an excuse in the capital, where the PRO has history, paintings and structure.
In practice, the agreement with the libertarians in CABA implies delivering the symbolic conduction of space to a foreign political project, which distrusts the State, despises planning and feeds permanent confrontation.
The question that overlays is inevitable: how many more will the path of Vidal follow? How long will a new space be formalized that groups those who feel orphans within the Pro? If something was clear this week is that the construction of a “constructive opposition”, as Vidal asks, cannot be made under the shadow of a libertarian ruling that leaves no nuances or internal dissidents.
The alliance of governors who lead Martín Llaryora and Maxi Pullaroalso has the governor Nacho Torresand as an articulator to Juan Schiaretti, who opened the door for some of the wounded of the PRO to join their ranks in a lateral rearm, arranged for a third way that contains those who escape the poles that separate the new old crack.
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