The Governor of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta mentioned this Monday, November 14, that presidential candidacies must be presented to the STEP elections (Primary, Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory) where they will be settled among the votes of the people.
The Buenos Aires governor He mentioned: “The best thing is always for people to decide.” In radio statements, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta He repeated that “I think the best thing is to choose the people in the STEP; It is the current, legal mechanism, and it is the healthiest”.
And about the possibility that the founder of your space, the PRO (Republican Proposal) and former president Mauricio Macri run for president, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta He said that “if he wants to be, he has the right and he will go to a STEP, where all those who want to be candidates must be, and let the people decide.” The governor culminated with “already in the last (legislative) election we went to PASO in 17 provinces”.
Already on the subject of his candidacy for President of the Nation, he was consulted in the aforementioned radio interview about the possibility that In Together for Change (JxC) there are formulas crossed with the Radical Civic Union (UCR) for the 2023 elections, the governor limited himself to responding that “it could be.”
About the Nation, Larreta criticized the current government saying that it takes “spasmodic measures, patches” that do not solve the root problems. “Argentina needs a plan for 25 years” said.
The successor in CABA
According to the succession in CABA, since Larreta would run for president, he pointed out among the possible candidates for chief of Buenos Aires the Minister of Health of CABA, Fernán Quirós; the head of Education, Soledad Acuña; the Minister of Government, Jorge Macri; radical senator Martín Lousteau; Deputy Ricardo López Murphy and the First Vice President of the City Legislature, Emmanuel Ferrario.
Also, The governor of CABA pronounced that “having so many alternatives is a source of pride and all of them can compete in a STEP (for a Buenos Aires chief)”. On the other hand, Larreta predicted that in next year’s elections JxC “will win several governorships as well.”
