The first time they showed him surveys on how he measured was in the middle of a pandemic. Fernan Quiros he appreciated the interest, but said that he was a management man and that the campaign was going to mislead him. His only concern in 2021 was Covid. They used all kinds of arguments but failed to convince him.
Two years later, the seduction operation came to fruition: the Buenos Aires Minister of Health was encouraged to take the step. And he seems to have found a good reception: he was introduced hand in hand with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Mauricio Macri called him to congratulate him and Elisa Carrió He assures that he is his candidate in Capital.
SOLUTION. The pressure that the hard wing of the PRO exerted on Larreta was important: they reproached him for having Martín Lousteau as a candidate to succeed him and that, in this way, he was going to leave the yellow bastion par excellence in the hands of radicalism. But in the Uspallata building they asked for patience: they let it be seen that there was a covered person who was waiting for the right moment to come to light. The problem is that time passed and there was no public confirmation of the rumor that was being spread.
In the middle of a World Cup You have to be careful so that the news does not go unnoticed. But Quirós he wanted to take care of another matter: he asked that the conflict with the doctors be settled so as not to get entangled
as a candidate in the problem. After two months of forceful measures, the City reached an agreement with the residents and the issue was unlocked. For this reason, days later, together with Larreta, Quirós announced in an act in Villa Luro: “I have made the decision to prepare myself to be able to compete next year”, he said.
The irruption of the Minister of Buenos Aires health in the campaign is unknown to the other Juntos candidates, much more seasoned in the political arena. The question about whether the official is ready to put his feet in the mud of a campaign is floating. In fact, he already had an unusual controversy these days that served as a wake-up call.
In the Mirtha Legrand programthe host and the leader of the cumbia band Los Palmeras asked him two questions that made him uncomfortable: the television star questioned him about the Vip vaccination. “Tell me, was Ginés González García guilty of something?” launched “Chiqui”. After rescuing the former minister’s academic activities, Quirós conceded: “He made some significant mistakes and some very painful ones.” Then he got into a debate with the musician. He will have a lot of those run-ins.
BANKING. For now, the launch of the Minister of Health does not stop generating followers. The most important for the PRO world is that of Macri, who called him from Qatar to greet him and assure him that they would meet after the World Cup. “It is important that we win the City,” he told her, referring to his party and the controversy that had begun with the support of Larreta to Lousteau. Few in the Buenos Aires government headquarters imagined that call.
It was also significant Support from Carrio. “I am going to move to Capital to vote for Quirós”, said in an interview on LN+. And he added: “In his candidacy is the hope of many to change the City. Not the good things, but to change the dark businesses, ”he said after assuring that four months ago he had asked Larreta by the Minister of Health.
The political vocation woke up late in Quirós. Despite having advised the PRO on health for more than a decade, he only decided to become an official three years ago. The pandemic was a before and after. The long work hours and the logical removal of his family from him (he did not eat with them during the entire quarantine to avoid infecting them) is what he remembers the most. But the management of the crisis is what placed him in the country’s showcase: without coronavirus, he would not have a candidate.
Quirós got on the horse of the commissioner: for the campaign he has the team of the head of Government and endless resources provided by the City. Nothing bad. In addition, he is the candidate with the most positive image, according to the surveys conducted by his environment. Of course, he is the one with the least experience at the polls: a fact that his rivals from Together for Change.
