Elisa Carrió plays the mystery. “Mine (for his candidacy) is an unknown. We will know it on 14,” he said in an Instagram video stumbling with the dates, Because lists closure is 17. There was no second shot. It was like that. And who doesn’t like it, doesn’t like it.
Carrió announced that he retired from politics in 2019 and made it effective at the beginning of the following year. He was held in his farm in exaltation of the cross, in a house that took him for many years, and from there he monitored the future of his space, the civic coalition, and of politics in general. No one of those who know “Lilita” in depth believed that this retirement was forever.
In fact, He threatened to be a candidate for governor at ’21, already president in ’23 “to guarantee the unity of together for change,” he said. It did not happen: she did not appear, nor the coalition that linked to the PRO, the UCR and her CC managed to stay together.
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The candidacy for deputy for the province of Buenos Aires has been germinating for a year. In June 2024 I already anticipated that I was going to participate: “Probably, next year I presented me,” he said. Although there aspired to a bank in the Senate by capital. He changed jurisdiction and, therefore, also of chamber.
Another thing predicted “Lilita” more than a year ago that ended up happening: The end of the coalition with which Mauricio Macri reached the presidency. “You have to anticipate. I will be a candidate for the Civic Coalition. I don’t like that way of doing politics together for change, ”he said.
For March this year, he had already changed his strategy, although not of objective. The “Plan to return” was still underway, but now with the intention of aspiring to a bank in deputies. I will be a candidate for the province of Buenos Aires in case a crisis comes. Seeing the geopolitics, ”he warned in an interview in LN+, giving an epic tone upon his return. And completed: “It’s my last train. I have to go to the province to accompany great deputies. Here are some who will be extraordinary candidates. That is, they are prepared people, complete, ”he said about the list he had been elaborating.
The last track, prior to the confirmation of his candidacy, gave it in an Instagram video where he made the presentation of Maricel Etchecoin, his “dilecta daughter”, who will be a candidate in the province. There he launched the unknown about his future. “They know that now I am Buenos Aires, because here comes the poor of the North. Where is the countryside and the city that I love. Where I chose to live and where I am going to die. In the Lord’s chapel,” he added with epoch tone.
But not everything is resolved: The Civic Coalition was not registered in any alliance on August 7, therefore Carrió should agree on his candidacy with some front of the center. In their space they had been having conversations with Facundo Manes, before the neuroscientist hit the jump to the city to join the United Citizens, the AMBA version of the League of Governors who called the United Provinces. That unexpected movement left her pedaling in the air.
That is why Carrió talks about a “unknown” candidacy. Not only because he plays the mystery, but because, at the close of this edition, he continued to negotiate a space that is not his own. It is not easy: his team must evaluate whether he never accused of a crime or criticized his possible allies. It is that after so many complaints, in the civic coalition they look at everything carefully. For now, Emilio Monzó and Margarita Stolbizer, who put together a “third way”, could shelter “Lilita”.
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Where he did get the negotiations to flow was in capital. Carrió was the architect of a coalition supported by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and that has Hernán Reyes as a candidate for deputy and Graciela Ocaña as a senator candidate. Let’s make a future, they named her.
It also means the reconciliation of “Lilita” with Ocaña. They were friends, but Kirchnerism separated them in 2004, when there was still no talk of the crack. The “ant” had accepted Nestor Kirchner’s proposal to be a PAMI controller and that’s why Carrió had nicknamed Judas. Political investigations on K corruption and complaints about Hugo Moyano’s threats were approaching them again. The weather has already healed the wounds.
Carrió’s return to political arena has a background. “Lilita” must ensure that the civic coalition survives in Congress. In this 2025 he puts four benches at stake: Marcela Campagnoli, Paula Oliveto, Victoria Borrego and Juan Manuel López are over the mandate. Now you must accommodate your space to continue having legislative presence. That is why he presses with his candidacy and shows his histrionism in networks.
He already criminally denounced Javier and Karina Milei. In this case for influence peddling. “The cashier is Karina. Just as in 2003 I said that the cashier was from Vido, now I say it about her,” he said about the Libra scandal. Carrió put first. Be a candidate or not, she is already back in politics.
