Elisa Carrió confirmed this Wednesday that she will be a candidate for president for the Civic Coalition in the next PASO of Together for Change and that she will run to “guarantee the unity” of the coalition.
To make the announcement, the leader of the Civic Coalition He stated: “In the CC there will be a candidate and the candidate will be me.” In addition, Elisa Carrió He assured that he will begin his campaign next May.
“I am a candidate to guarantee unity, I do not intend to win. What I want is that there is no debate to the death that ends up harming the chances of Together for Change”stressed Elisa Carrió in dialogue with radio Miter.
Until now, the national deputy had not ratified whether or not she would run for the next elections, but this Wednesday she confirmed that the pre-candidacy will be disputed with her other blockmates, including Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
It should be remembered that, in 2019, the lawyer announced that she was retiring from party politics. However, after the fights between the president of the PRO, Patricia Bullrich, and the Buenos Aires chief of staff, Felipe Miguel, she changed her mind.
This led to the deputy to have a greater participation within the block; However, in 2021 he had assured that running for the presidency “lacks historical sense and my sacrifice would be useless.”
However, before the strong internal in Juntos por el Cambio, the leader of the Civic Coalition began in 2022 to discuss her possible candidacy for the presidential elections. “If there are no fundamental agreements on conduct, decency, honesty and transparent financing, I am going to be a candidate for president next year”indicated at the end of last year.
Together for Change will convene a political table
In the midst of the internship of Together for Change, especially for the candidacies for the presidency, the coalition announced that it will convene a political table to analyze the strategies that they will implement for the electoral process.
This is because there were breaks in some provinces. “It was decided to set up a political table with two representatives from each party, to address the situation in the provinces with split elections,” the JxC National Table said in a statement, after the meeting that took place on Tuesday.
