Horacio Rodriguez Larreta he tired. The head of the Buenos Aires government, until now the most moderate of the PRO leaders, made a drastic decision: “He is willing to mark the field,” they say in his inner circle. Outside, where he was more combative with the National government, and inwards, because he cleaned out the undecided from his administration. From now on, there will be no place for grays: determined to dispute the 2023 electionsor they are with him, or they are against him.
The first sign of hardening was done through Twitter, in the midst of the political and economic crisis of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner. Larreta did not miss the opportunity: “Argentina deserves more than this internal fight”, said. And he slipped presidential intent from him. Days later, he would settle the goals inwards: he pushed away Emilio Monzo of your project due to lack of definitions; he asked Nicholas Massot, Who is with Patricia Bullrich, to leave his position as director at Banco Nación; and he did the same with Ramón Lanús, who was director of Ceamse. He played hard.
CANDIDATE
The signal in Together for Change was clear for this time of institutional crisis: do not go out and raise presidential flags until the Government did not stop tottering. Nevertheless, Larreta skipped the protocol.
“We are working with a lot of institutional responsibility in putting together the plan and the teams,” he wrote in a Twitter thread on July 5. And he added: “I dream of being part of the solution to the problems that we have dragged on for decades.”
The hardening of his image against the K will lead him to recover a certain discursive space that he had lost in the hands of Bullrich and Mauricio Macri. For this reason, now he points directly to them in each interview: Tuesday the 12th in TN and Wednesday the 13th on LN+ He repeated the idea: to make a “broad agreement with independent sectors, Peronism, progressivism and the center-right.” But he clarified: “I would not agree with Kirchnerism. There is no consensus with them.
He also pointed to social organizations: “Let them form a party and if they win the elections, they will handle the plans,” he said. And he added: “It is not right for the State to delegate so much money to organizations that no one voted for.”
Every Larreta activity It must be read in an electoral key, despite the fact that there is still a year to go before the PASO. For this reason, without commenting on his candidacy, he spoke to the establishment in the forum of Knowledge Economy organized by Grupo Clarín. He let them know his intentions to carry out a labor reform, to eliminate the traps and stabilize the economy. Music to the ears of your interlocutors.
NO CRACK
Where the political turn of the mayor of Buenos Aires was most noticeable was in his own government. “We are not passing the list, but it is time for definitions. To know who we have,” an advisor tells NOTICIAS of Larreta.
It is that the head of the Buenos Aires Government got tired of waiting for definitions of Monzó and asked him to step aside, and with him also went Massot and Lanús. “With Emilio the meeting is still pending. But he wants to play outside and we understand it ”, insists the adviser and assures that Larreta is not angry. That he just wants to be clear about his team.
There was also a bill pass for Christian Ritondo, who insists on disputing the governorship of Buenos Aires against Diego Santili, Larreta’s favourite.
The dispute with Bullrich it’s red hot, it’s the anticipated intern. Some leaders of other spaces of Together for Change fear that the short circuits generate such wear and tear that the shock wave ends up dragging them all.
In that market of passes, in the City they received with open arms the deputy Waldo Wolf, once close to Bullrich. “I belong to no one,” protested the legislator when they questioned the jump. The always fragile relationship between the mayor and the president of the PRO hangs in the balance. Therefore, the person responsible for maintaining peace between the two leaders is macri. In addition, scouting outside of politics began: the driver Lizy Tagliani was approached by a relative of the head of government and tempted to be a candidate for mayor of Admiral Brown. So far, there has only been one encounter.
Larreta left moderation aside. His people had been asking for it.
