Doubts about what he was doing Mauricio Macri They started very early in the 2023 campaign. Together for Change There were many who discussed the speech of the former president, who said that he would vote for his own candidate, but did not stop flirting with an ascendant Javier Milei. On Sunday the 22nd, after knowing the result of the general elections that put the libertarian alongside Sergio Massa In the runoff, the Macri effect once again became a topic of conversation in the opposition coalition. The question is whether the hardliners will now seek an agreement with Freedom Advances so that Union for the Homeland is defeated.
“I can ask an uncomfortable question: “Is Mauricio Macri responsible for the failure of Together for Change?” journalist Viviana Canosa shot. at a debate table in La Nación Más. Luis Novaresio seconded her: “He is very responsible. The cuddly attitude towards Milei and not anointing their candidates has to do with the result.”
Signs.
Macri took the stage at the Parque Norte bunker after the defeat, greeted the militancy and had affectionate gestures with Bullrich. But he didn’t speak. She was the defeated candidate in charge of sending a first message to La Libertad Avanza: “We will never be complicit in populism.”“, nor of the mafias that destroyed this country,” he assured to make it clear that he will not support Peronism. The former president applauded with a grim gesture to his left.
On the other side, Milei caught the signals and, with a moderate celebratory speech, sought the approach of the hard wing of the opposition coalition that, after the poor electoral performance, is creaking. “We have to work together to end Kirchnerism,” he asked. to relate his speech to that of Bullrich.
Those who once again demonstrated differences in Juntos were the radicals. Facundo Suárez Lastra, after listening to the speeches of both forces, warned on Twitter: “Do not count on me to vote for Milei, As Hipolito Yrigoyen said, we have to start again.” And he added: “Whatever overcomes populism must be progressive liberal and social democratic.”
Flirtation.
The ambiguities in Macri’s statements about Milei had reached such a point that the former president was forced to declare that he would not be an official of La Libertad Avanza if liberalism were the winner. “I am not going to be in any government,” he warned. a month before the general elections.
The thing is that in the PASO Troy had burned, when he gave it a mime in the middle of the Juntos bunker. “Adding what Milei got plus us is an enormous majority of Argentines that we are proposing a profound change,” said Macri. Bullrich’s anger was reactivated.
His constant flirtations with La Libertad Avanza generated internal anger. Gerardo Morales, president of radicalism, had questioned Macri before the general elections: “It does a lot of damage to Together for Change”, said. And he stated: “There is an extreme liberalism that is contagious.”
The back and forth between Macri and Milei reached the absurdity that The liberal candidate imagined the former president as a “super ambassador.” “He will be the representative before the world,” the deputy had skillfully said, sowing tares in the Juntos camp.
The talks between them are frequent. In his private conversations, Macri treats him with confidence: “Javier,” he says to the candidate. On the other hand, with a mixture of formality and cholulism, they always return a bow: “How are you doing, engineer,” the liberal deputy usually greets him. He never addresses him.
Now, facing the runoff, the question arises as to whether so much back-and-forth will take place. Sources from Together for Change disbelieve the possibility of Macri being an official in an eventual Milei government, but they do not doubt that he will play for La Libertad Avanza. The flirtation will reach its maximum expression.
