The thing was so crooked between Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and the macr cousinsI, in the days prior to the closure of alliances, nobody tried negotiation. Not even hours before the deadline was overcome there was an agreement rehearsal so that the former head of the Buenos Aires government was inside the PRO.
Larreta made her warnings come true: she registered a different seal and will compete in capital against the ruling party. “We divide votes. Your decision is functional to freedom progresses and Peronism,” they protested in the Government Headquarterswhere they had the illusion that, after the Amagues, the former mayor decided not to compete in the national election.
Larreta defends himself: “The best way not to favor any is working, and people accompany. We don’t look for twisted interpretations.” Alone, try to leave the plain and start out to return to the Head of Government in two years. “In the city there is smell of pee,” was his Marketinera phrase, as eschatological as viral. “We have no consultant, it was a phrase that occurred to Horacio and his team,” they say.
Two ways.
Larreta will compete in the local election under the umbrella of the Alliance Let us return Buenos Aires, which is made up of the Federal Party and Public Trust, the space of the legislator Graciela Ocaña.
The former boss has a campaign axis: to show the deficiencies in the management of Jorge Macri and contrast with what he considers was his greatest virtue. “I feel that the city is deteriorated. Sad. It would not be consistent to say ‘support this government’ with which in many things I do not agree. Am I going to lie to people? ”He said.
Larreta travels neighborhoods from Monday to Saturday for six hours and scores in a notebook the problems you see in each place. “The neighbors are asking for more management. It is the fort of Horacio,” they say in their surroundings, exhibiting their virtues.
Jorge Macri tried to make Mauricio outline some movement to prevent Larreta from arms him a parallel list. But the former president did not have too much maneuvering margin: the relationship is broken from the presidential candidates of 2023. Larreta is convinced that Macri played against him and cannot forgive him. That they have needed it now, and that he has been elusive, comforts him.
“Neither Jorge nor Mauricio called,” they say very close to Larreta. And they add: “Yes there was some old friend who remained in the government and tried to persuade him. But a negotiation channel never opened.”
Like a paradox, Who contributed to Larreta’s decision to compete in the city was, nothing more and nothing less, Jorge Macri. Larreta had already begun to walk Buenos Aires long ago. But in December, when the Head of Government decided to unfold the election, the former official felt that he could have a possibility. If there was a single contest, the campaign was going to nationalize. Now, the debate is going to be local and Larreta believes to have advantages.
The PRO will go to the May 18 election with the Democratic Party, UNIR, cities in Action, Federal Republican Meeting and the MID, in the Buenos Aires Alliance First.
In La Libertad progresses, which goes alone as a game, the fact that Larreta plays separate from Macri excites. A scrambled river, fishermen’s gain. What Javier Milei still does not define is who will be the candidate who heads the list. The spokesman sounds, Manuel Adorni, but at the same time they need it at Casa Rosada. It is not defined.
Debate.
In the last zoom of the PRO there was a very strong motion: Throw to the game. In the surroundings of the former mayor, founder of space, found out how the movement came: “The theme was discussed at the last Sunday meeting,” says the Larretists. And they continue: “They threw it as a hypothesis rather than as a decision. But on Monday he reached the media as a fact.” From the game they lowered his tone, but the last word is not said. “Horacio is still part of and having the foundational values of the PRO. It would be awkwardness. But, well, for now they recular,” they say on their small table.
For the Larreta team, those who modified the course and the ideals were not them, but the pro. “In the game, the one who thought differently was always respected. Dialogue and diversity was respected,” Larreta protested. And he continued: “But now he is approaching a president who insults and fucking the one who thinks differently. Those are not the values of the PRO. And many leaders are closer to the national government than the role of constructive opposition that we should occupy.”
Larreta was barely surrounded by a group of loyal. Guadalupe Tagliaferri, Emmanuel Ferrario, Pablo Avelluto and Álvaro González are some of them. With many pro leaders share a friendship, but now he will be in different paths, such as with María Eugenia Vidal, with which he frequently meets.
The failure in presidential candidacy still crosses it. And, every so often, he feels the need to explain what his mistake was: he felt winner early and moved away from the voter. “In the campaign I was very surrounded by politicians, when all my work was with people,” he said in an interview.
With the atomization of together for change The hegemony of macrismo in capital is in danger. Not only will it divide votes with Larreta, but also the UCR and the civic coalition will present their own lists. Jorge and Mauricio face the most challenging election since the party was founded. And libertarians are excited to take the yellow bastion.
