The Big Bang of 2001 gave birth to a new board. On the one hand, Kirchnerism drank in the remnants of the Peronist left represented until the implosion of the Alianza por el Frepaso. Simultaneously, he also relied on evicted cadres from the Alfonsinista radical left.
On the other level, the city of Buenos Aires witnessed the gestation of a new force that absorbed pieces of Menem Peronism, at the same time that Ucedeísmo drifted after the implosion of convertibility and the decline of its unprecedented alliance with the peronism.
In that oregano field, Macri built the PRO, with the addition of a content that would prove highly valid in the 2015 electoral final: the importation of celebrities into politics in order to oxygenate the old rusty structures.
Years later, both forces would mutate. In particular, the federal crisis of 2008 gave birth to two large coalitions, one of a popular nature that would accentuate the myth of the “wonderful youth” of the 70s to the point of caricature and, in the opposite direction, another that would also add up to its modernizing DNA. parody a module of republicanism not even dreamed of by former president Arturo Illia himself.
Defined in formulas, just as Kirchnerism was an amalgamation between Fernando Espinoza and Hebe de Bonafini, macrismo expressed a synthesis between Nicky Caputo and Lilita Carrió. The two coalitions are creaking on that ground today. Kirchnerism’s popular leg exploded in the heat of triple-digit inflation and Macrismo’s backbone of business rationality ended up replacing the stocks and going with the spittoon to the IMF.
As far as the PRO is concerned, how do you process his zombified state induced by Milei? If he bends to the right in his Bullrich variant, his candidates clash with the noisy outsider, if he bends for republicanism and moderation in his Rodríguez Larreta option, his electoral menu must be labeled with a warning of “high content of list 3 radicals ” and helicopter risk by the way.
*Daniel Montoya is a consultant and political scientist.
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