A Elisa Carrió he likes to imagine himself a firefighter, able to put out fires when the coalition he co-founded, Together for Changeis in danger from friendly fire. “I am the guarantor of unity”, It is described. For this reason, in these last weeks he abandoned ostracism and dedicated himself to planting a position on different issues.
What most caught the attention, even to his inner circle, is that he announced a change of address to vote for Fernan Quiros, whom he wants to accompany in his campaign. But above all, to say that he could abandon his retirement and submit to the polls again. “If there are no fundamental agreements on conduct, decency, honesty and transparent financing, I am going to be a candidate for President next year”, she released. Bomb.
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Carrió prematurely left the Chamber of Deputies in 2020. She still had a year left as a legislator when she decided to resign: she said that the time had come for her to retire as a politician, that she had already given everything she had to give and that she had other projects in mind.
The retreat was short-lived: “Lilita” never ceased to be a factor of power within Together for Change and publicly reappeared at key moments to, as she considers, right the coalition ship. That is why now, in the absence of a clear leader and the appearance of so many candidates, she decided to present her own application.
Those who are already on the starting grid for the 2023 race are wary that he really wants to go to the polls. “It’s typical of her. Throw that possibility in the previous one of the assembly of lists to give entity to the Civic Coalition”, analyzes one of the owners of Together for Change. And he completes: “Once he accommodates his leaders, he will say that it is not necessary to introduce himself.”
Meanwhile, Carrio already announced that he will change his address to the City of Buenos Aires to be able to vote Fernán Quirós, the Minister of Health that will seek to happen to Horacio Rodriguez Larreta. “It is a light that opens for a people that today has a lot of pain and anguish,” praised “Lilita” and already made the Civic Coalition available.
Carrió will campaign together with Quirós and in the Buenos Aires government, from where they will direct the minister’s campaign, believe that their accompaniment on the tour can be useful: it is that the former deputy is a magnet for the neighbors and the media. She will serve to install the candidate.
Between “Lilita” and Quirós there is a good personal relationship. She took him as a consultant on health issues, both for public and private issues: during the pandemic she did not hesitate once to call him to ask him personal questions. Now there will be time to return so many courtesies.
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After a low profile timecarrió She returned to give interviews and on Friday the 2nd she was the star protagonist of the Federal Congress of the Civic Coalition. She there she made a long release on the verdict to Cristina Kirchner in the Road Cause, which would happen a couple of days later.
It is that “Lilita” did not want to be absent at a time that she considers historic. She was the one who denounced in 2004 the collusion of the Kirchner family with Lázaro Báez. She could not let others hang themselves the cockard of having promoted the first sentence against the vice president.
His last appearance in the media had been very controversial. In August, he made a raid against his allies from the UCR and the PRO which caused a lot of damage to the coalition. And he concluded: “If you want me to leave Together for Change, all you have to do is ask me. Now, how are they going to avoid a 35-year-old voice in Argentina?
In every meeting you have with other leaders, Carrió shows how alert he is about the country’s economic situation. “After the World Cup, this country collides,” he repeats. In fact, he has shown skepticism about him in some interview. “There are days when I get up and say ‘I can’t give anymore’. Because how much spiritual strength is there to have, apart from political strength, competition and study, to face what is coming in Argentina. Because they are stealing the future.” sentenced in LN+.
True to his disruptive style, to criticize what happens at Anses, he even dared to presage his own death: “I am preparing my wake for 84,” he predicted. “It’s that I want to die before I’m 90, because I don’t know if I’m going to be able to continue working. In this country we are condemned to work all our lives”. Although Carrió’s retirement seems to have been definitely in the past.
