The runoff between Sergio Massa and Javier Milei It has already begun to cause ruptures within Together for Change and the search for culprits is the order of the day. With Monday’s newspaper, the main guns point to Mauricio Macri who had already warned since March that he would not run in the presidential election. That decision, seen from a distance, ended up causing an internal conflict that, far from strengthening, ended up weakening the coalition. Added to this was the fact that Milei’s emergence forced Macri to be friendly, which ended up hurt your own party.
Today Macri’s leadership is under discussion and this crisis was reflected on his face with a grim expression while he accompanied Patricia Bullrich during her speech on stage. What weighty leader did she have left? How will radicalism move in the face of the runoff? And the Civic Coalition? Without a doubt, a new conversation begins from now on. Sergio Massa has dialogue with the radicals Emiliano Yacobitti and Gerardo Moralesbut also with the moderate wing of the PRO led by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
The radicals have another factor to vote for Massa: Milei hates them, so there is no way they could vote for someone who despises them. It is assumed that Republican Peronism, led by Miguel Ángel Pichetto, will vote for Massa and it is likely that the auditor general will be one of the first to publicly declare his support for the Minister of Economy, with whom he speaks weekly. .
On the side of the Civic Coalition it is expected that there will be abstention and on the side of Mauricio Macri It is assumed that he will ask for the vote for Milei. The latter has already sent messages towards JxC. “All of us who want change must work together,” he said in his speech, in a clear conciliatory tone calling on the entire opposition group.
Massa did the same, when talking about “calling for a national unity agreement” and that in a hypothetical government of his “the rift will end.” On social networks, memes were already seen parodying dialogues between Massa and the Córdoba presidential candidate. Juan Schiaretti. The Mediterranean province will be a place that both candidates will look at with interest.
The JxC breakup scenario returns Mauricio Macri to the district where he built his political strength to begin a reconstruction, but now he will be led by his cousin Jorge Macri, who, at the close of this edition, was 0.40 points away from winning in the first round.
The conflict that generated this defeat within JxC is much deeper than the electoral context. Within the space they began to look back and the decisions that were made throughout the campaign. There are plenty of reproaches. They blame Macri for having weakened Patricia Bullrich in front of Mileithey blame Bullrich for not having convened the entire space the day after the PASO defeat and for offering the Chief of Staff to Horacio Rodríguez Larreta just in the last week and they also blame the mayor of Buenos Aires for not having stepped aside before the PASO. Everyone gives their arguments. They even reproach themselves for not having added Schiaretti.
The Cordoban’s points added to those of Bullrich give more than what Milei obtained. Macri was also against the incorporation of the Cordoba governor. A year of bad decisions.
