The bid between the opposition leaders to define which presidential candidate they are going to play with in 2023 created new alliances in Together for Change, in an intense week where internal and bill passes intensified in the main opposition coalition, and where the issue of a possible suspension of the PASO and the election of authorities in the Judicial Council They also generated internal friction.
This week, the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodriguez Larretaone of the presidential candidates of the PRO heading to 2023, met with 150 leaders who support his candidacy, in an act in the forests of Palermo.
In the photo that captured the meeting, Larreta tried to show that he has candidates in all the provinces and that his army is not concentrated only in the city of Buenos Aires, the territory he governs, and in the suburbs.
In the photo with Larreta appeared, for example, several candidates for governorships in provinces such as Entre Ríos (Rogelio Frigerio), San Luis (Claudio Poggi) and Córdoba (Luis Juez), among others.
The mayor of Buenos Aires also incorporated in the image referents of the previous government of Mauricio Macrisuch as Gustavo Santos from Cordoba, former Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie and former Minister Hernán Lacunza.
Days before, Rodríguez Larreta had dealt with the armed forces of Buenos Aires, meeting with representatives of the first and third provincial electoral sections, the suburban districts that contribute the most votes due to their demographic composition in the national election.
In this meeting several referents appeared who were playing until that moment with the candidacy for governor of Christian Ritondo and not with the Diego SantilliLarreta’s bishop for the province.
Anecdotally, the “converts” who joined Larreta’s ranks were immediately deleted from the WhatsApp group shared by those who support Ritondo as governor.
But beyond this information, the important thing is that this operation by Larreta to attract wills led Ritondo to enter into a new alliance with Patricia Bullrich in that territory, which was reflected in another photo.
Bullrich had been showing Javier Iguacel as his potential Buenos Aires candidate, but now the appearance of Ritondo, who has another political weight, leaves two duos positioned in the background fight: Larreta-Santilli vs. Bullrich-Ritondo in the race for the Casa Rosada and the provincial government.
The head of the PRO, for her part, paraded her presidential candidacy through the province of Mendoza, appearing again with the national senator from the UCR Alfredo Cornejoformer governor of the land of sun and good wine.
The joint appearance again fueled rumors that Cornejo could be an eventual running mate for Bullrich as a vice-presidential candidate.
the third leg
The third leg of the PRO, Mauricio Macricontinues with his low profile, talking to leaders and businessmen in their offices and still plays the mystery regarding his candidacy.
Although it is not launched, he papered a good part of the suburbs with posters where he is seen with his candidate for governor: the mayor of Lanús Nestor Grindetti.
Apart from these positions and movements of the PRO, in a yellow party that experienced an intense week, there were two issues that also heated up the internal that they have been holding for a long time Gerardo Morales and Mauricio Macri.
The first topic was the election of the lawyers’ representative before the next elections in the Council of the Judiciary, on October 18.
Daniel Angelia man close to Macri, proposed for that place at the top of the list of lawyers to Charles Mattersonwhile Morales advocated Miguel Piedecasas.
The game was finally won by the governor of Jujuy, who enforced the agreement he had with the PRO, according to which the yellow party chose second place on the list and radicalism was first.
The second aspect that blew up the thermals in the tough relationship between Morales and Macri was the possible suspension of PASO in Chubut.
Morales accused Macri’s supporters of having “violent attitudes” in Chubut towards radicalism and in his multiple statements dedicated to his internal adversaries said that “the hawks cannot drive even a car from the merry-go-round”, alluding to the internal group referenced in Patricia Bullrich and in Mauricio Macri.
In this way, the resounding victory in the municipal elections of Marcos Juárez a week ago could not be enjoyed inside the doors of Together for Change: the inmates, once again, were stronger than unity.
