The play came out as Mauricio Macri expected. After insinuating that La Libertad progresses was buying the leaders of the PRO, he managed to be Javier Milei himself who jumped to respond and that the mayor who transformed into the symbol of the electoral trampoline remained in the center of the scene.
Because the president asked Macri with irony that “Bring the invoices and show them”, with respect to the allegedly bought leaders. And Diego Valenzuela, mayor of Tres de February, picked up the glove: “If I don’t have something, our values with Patricia Bullrich are clear: support the change that the Argentines voted and not fall into party speculations,” he wrote on Twitter.
But the former president’s message had another objective: Macri did not speak to those who had already jumped into the libertarian space, but to those who evaluate the possibility of the imminence of the campaign. “The leaders who priced were already bought. Those of us have no price, we have values,” he said. The holder of the PRO needs to put a brake on the bleeding.
Tensions
Once the message reached the leaders who flirt with the possibility of jumping from the PRO to freedom, in the macrismo they tried to lower the intensity of the attack. They sent the idea that the advanced one was not against them.
It is that, almost without exceptions, most pro leaders who have to dispute power in mid -term elections requested conditions or at least speculated by negotiating with the ruling party. Staying in macrismo, without an agreement with freedom progresses, could mean being dragged to a comfortable third position in some jurisdictions.
However, the idea of macrismo to lower the foam to the debate collided with the character of its leader. Macri did not stop: “Milei’s response was very happening. He already understood everything. He understood that there are people who are so desperate to keep their power quota, renew a bank or renew any type of positionwhich is willing to do anything, ”he said when the issue had to come to an end. And he completed:” That is to put a price, that is not having values. “
The relationship between Milei and Macri goes through their worst time since the beginning of libertarian management. Never, as until now, had spent so many months without gathering and the WhatsApp chat between them barely records activity. Far from the proximity of other times.
They were finally found in Olivos, in August 2024, and from there the differences are increasingly notorious. “There are no milanesas for a while. It is weird,” said the former president at a conference. He added: “But well, there are a lot of things that we agreed in this line of strengthening institutionality, the method, which did not happen because of their environment that did not validate it.”
Since the dialogue cooled, the idea of the negative “environment” became stronger. In order not to directly confront with the president, Macri attributes the government’s deficiencies to the “iron triangle”: sister Karina and star advisor Santiago Caputo. They would also be responsible, according to their vision, that freedom progresses and the PRO has not reached electoral agreements in any province and in capital.
Between Karina Milei and the former president there is no dialogue. “The boss,” as his sister calls Milei, has strictly denied that this happens. With Santiago Caputo there were bad experiences every time they sat down to chat, even with crossed judicial threats. SHowever, many politicians, businessmen and celebrities witnessed a surprise greeting: the advisor and Macri crossed Monday 28 in the North Park, at the Dinner of the Freedom Foundation. In fact, the Mileista official went to look for the former president at his table, greeted him, exchanged some comment to the ear and a couple of smiles before the attentive gaze of the public present. The most enthusiastic leaders, looking for the coalition, rushed to read it as the symbol of an incipient truce. Others barely hint a cordial gesture. There are no major certainties.
Internal message.
What really worries macrismo is that Garrochism is stopped. There will be no opportunities to rehearse an alliance of parties if the renowned leaders are seduced by the ruling party. The alert signs were turned on a month ago, when a photo of the shipowners of La Libertad advances, with Karina at the head, along with Cristian Ritondo and Diego Santilli. From there everything is distrust.
Ritondo claims to be working on piecework to get the parties alliance in the province. “The vision that Mauricio and the whole PRO shares is that any personal attitude must be deposed, because Argentina, and especially the province of Buenos Aires, He needs a complex front and committed to change to end the populism that has done so badly, “ He pointed out after confirming that the negotiations are still firm, despite the crosses between Macri and Milei.
Santilli some macristas distrusted his intentions: They even have a question between the former president and the deputy. Macri would question his belonging to the party while the “colo” would take responsibility for having entered at this point of the year without definitions.
Meanwhile, Santilli maintains strict media silence. He doesn’t want to anticipate his movements. He is not even present in his networks: in April he barely published two tweets. One referred to the death of Pope Francis and another celebrating the exit of the stocks. In March, the same: just two messages in defense of the ruling party. “It is more milestic than government officials,” protests a lead leader.
In the interior of the country there are other candidates who enjoy the same distrust, but what most worries the small table of macrismo is what happens in Buenos Aires, after the displacement of the government in capital. Losing the city and the province would mean a scenario of difficult recovery.
What happens in the rest of the jurisdictions is, at this point, a minor issue: In each province the election will tend to regionalize and the local coalitions will confuse the results.
But in the city and in the province there are no excuses: If the PRO does not get a coalition with Milei, it can be seriously injured for the future. That is why Macri gives signs that he will not have mercy with “the bought.” It is a plea to the government to depose the attitude, but above all a warning to those who are observing them.
