“It’s with Caro,” he said Mauricio Macri at the closing of one of the campaign spots of the pre-candidate for governor of Santa Fe, Carolina Losadawho competed against the radical Maximilian Pullaro. Macri, in a miscalculation, had tried to tip the field to Losada’s side and ended up losing and dragging a PRO sector towards defeat in one of the key provinces for the opposition. For example, the political leadership of the PRO in Santa Fe, which before the elections was in the hands of Federico Angelini, the candidate for lieutenant governor of Losada and president of the PRO Nacional, was left in the hands of Álvaro González, one of Rodríguez Larreta’s main operators in that province.
In recent months, Macri has shown himself far from political construction within Juntos Por el Cambio. His main obsession for these hours is the Bridge World Cup to be held in Marrakech next August 20. It was not even active for the final stretch of the closing of the lists on June 24. That day he went to play in Nordelta in the afternoon with his friend Lisandro Borges. His agenda is more focused on FIFA and the election of Boca Juniors for the end of the year.
The Santa Fe election also had the particularity of becoming a test for the allies of Horacio Rodriguez Larreta and of Patricia Bullrich. The mayor of Buenos Aires supported Pullaro and Bullrich supported Losada. “Play it all,” the former Security Minister told her in one of her last tours with the candidate. That night, Patricia preferred to run from the scene so as not to be so tied to a defeat. Rodríguez Larreta celebrated, but happiness was greater for Martín Lousteau and Emiliano Yacobitti, who are Pullaro’s true allies.
Another great defeat of the Santa Fe election was Elisa “Lilita” Carrió that it did not close with any candidate because its provincial referent, Lucila Lehmann, was left out of the assembly of Pullaro’s lists. Carrió got angry and ended up taking a candidate named Maradona, a distant relative of Diego Maradona, who barely got around 30,000 votes, which represents about 2% of the province.
The “lilita” Lucila Lehmann is also the wife of Luciano Bugallo, a Buenos Aires provincial deputy who came to that position by running in the first electoral section and who will now seek re-election, but for the fourth section. Bugallo entered the world of politics through his active anti-K militancy on social media, especially Twitter. Those who don’t like him qualify him as a former troll. It is a mystery where he lives, because his family is in Santa Fe and he moves in Santa Fe as if he lived there, but he legislates for the citizens of Buenos Aires. The fashion of living in one city, but looking for positions in another is transversal to politics, although most of the cases are found in Juntos Por el Cambio.
Something similar happens in the world of communication: it was striking to see the consultant William Seita in Maximiliano Pullaro’s bunker, because one of Seita’s most important clients is the Government of the province of Santa Fe. He didn’t even stop by to say hello to Governor Omar Perotti’s bunker. Some always win and others, like Macri, Bullrich or CarrióSometimes they have to lose.
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