The Vice President of the Republic, Beatriz Argimón, seeks to make a place for herself among the favorite people to win the presidential candidacy in the next national elections, in order to perpetuate a right-wing government for four more years and prevent the Broad Front -which has been adding in polls- return to the Executive Tower.
Argimón, former president of the National Party and now second in command of the government of Luis Lacalle Pou, told the newspaper El País that “indeed, some of my colleagues are handling the possibility that I be a candidate.”
However, he added that “the important thing is to finish fulfilling what was promised to society” because the government is barely halfway through the term.
If she wants to obtain the nomination for the PN, she will have to overcome a detail: that she is the second in voting intention. According to Option Consultants, it barely has 16% of accessions in the white internal, well below the 41% of the current Presidential Secretary Álvaro Delgado, who has 41% and just slightly surpassing the former candidate for the Mayor of Montevideo, Laura Raffo that adds 12%. Last July she was even below Raffo.
According to the aforementioned medium, Argimón could seek support in Wilsonian groups that are not contemplated in the orbit of the Todos group. For example, the so-called Group of Mayors, Better Country, some leaders of the National Alliance sector and the remnants of small but not insignificant sartorialism.
Support and doubts
There are different positions as to whether Argimón would be the right candidate because, within the PN, not everyone is sure that her discourse is really Wilsonian, that it would be one of the most “progressive” ideologies (without really being so, as it is a party of right) within the political group that today leads the multicolored coalition.
According to the survey of the newspaper, there are approaches between Argimón, Sergio Botana (Más País), Carlos Camy (National Alliance) and Juan Straneo (sartorism). “In the event that Juan (Sartori) is not a candidate, we will have to go out and work, and that is where Argimón is a possibility”; stated the latter.
Botana understands that it is necessary to wait to start distributing presidential support and that now it is essential to “strengthen the party within and defend the ideas of decentralization.”
Other possible candidates remain to be defined internally, such as that of Senator Jorge Gandini, Laura Raffo or Álvaro Delgado. Although Juan Sartori was a pre-candidate last time, it is not yet known if he will contend again.
