On page 130 of his book “For what”, Mauricio Macri He left a sentence that can be interpreted as a decision already made about his future. In the chapter “Enough is Enough”, which tells of his last years in Boca, he says: “The first clue that my cycle was coming to an end was the strange feeling of beginning to feel like a slave to Boca. I knew then, as I know today, that there is a time when you have to give way to others so that they can continue on their way with their mistakes and successes.
The clarification “as I know today” is revealing when analyzing Macri’s present and his ideas regarding a possible presidential candidacy. What do you know today? He says it clearly: you have to give way to others. The others vying for the presidency are Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich.
Macri already received Rodríguez Larreta during the holidays in the country Cumelenin Villa La Angostura, and on Tuesday the 24th he received Patricia Bullrich with her husband Guillermo Yanco. Unlike Rodríguez Larreta, who had rented a house in the country, Bullrich will stay in the house that the former president built for himself last year, facing Lake Nahuel Huapi.
Macri’s vacations in the south have become the obligatory pilgrimage of his political space and also of the red circle that visits him in that Patagonian paradise. This year, in addition to some political and business meetings, he also received the Queen of the Netherlands, Maxima Zorreguietaand participated in different entertainments that were made to the emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
In those meetings were Gaston Gaudio, the Al Thani lobbyist in Argentina and Uruguay, and the businessman Martín Migoya, owner of the Globant company. Macri is very enthusiastic about his relationship with the Arab world, he has said so in public, and in private he believes that if the PRO returns to the Government, he could be the one to get the funds for those countries to invest in Argentina. For Macri, 2023 is not in the investments of US funds or in Chinese capital, the future hears it in Arabic.
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In terms of political support, Macri has shown greater support for Bullrich than for Rodríguez Larreta in recent months. In his meetings with businessmen who are providing funds to the Buenos Aires mayor for his presidential campaign, he asked them to also collaborate with Bullrich. He also asked his cousin Angelo Calcaterra to do a “small collaboration”. “El Tano”, as his friends call him, would have already contributed to Bullrich.
Among Patricia Bullrich’s campaign fundraisers are her campaign manager maria onetoTigre councilor Nicolás Massot, the former ambassador to the OAS, paula bertol, former president for a day Federico Pinedo, and Macri’s friend and bridge partner, Pierre Pejacsevich. The funds, in white, are channeled through the Instituto de Estudios Estratégicos, Bullrich’s foundation in Argentina, but it also has a box to search for contributors in the United States through an agreement with a foundation called the American Forum Observatory on National Democracy Organization Fund.
The Buenos Aires head of government, for his part, in addition to having the activities that he can camouflage as management acts, also has a team led by the fundraiser for Macri’s presidential campaign in 2015, Edgardo Cenzonbut he is also assisted by his brother Augusto Rodríguez Larreta and by Gabriel Martino, the former manager of Banco HSBC in Argentina.
Who Macri will support will be a definition that, according to what he confessed to his inner circle, he would begin to give from April or May, when the campaign enters the list closing stage.
Miguel Angel Pichetto, Auditor General of the Nation and also Macri’s former running mate in 2019, considers that power cannot be dissociated from the administration and gives the current government as an example where Cristina Kirchner is the leader, but the president is Alberto Fernández . That is to say: Pichetto wants Macri to be a candidate.
In his book, which he is presenting in different cities of the country -last week he was in Mar del Plata-, Macri is leaving a path that he wants his successors to follow: he wants strong legislators who do not turn around halfway, because he believes that the battle will not only come from the Executive Power but also from the Legislative Branch, where they hope there will be labor, union, social security and fiscal reforms. He speaks harshly of the social movements he calls “extortionists of social peace” and “poverty managers”. The last pages of “For what” ask for an educational reform. In short, if the candidate is Larreta or Bullrich, he will have to deal with Macri’s ideas.
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