The so-called Federal Board of Together for Change (JxC), made up of several legislators from the interior of the country who demand greater representation in the leadership of the coalition, will meet this Tuesday in the Buenos Aires town of Olivos.
The meeting will take place at 3:00 p.m. in Malaver 401, and legislators and leaders of JxC will participate, who have repeatedly expressed their discomfort at the “porteña” composition exhibited by the National Board of the opposition alliance and that “does not represent the inland sectors.
Meanwhile, party spokesmen indicated that after 5 pm, several of those attending this conclave will make statements to the press.
The idea of generating this instance began to take shape after last year’s legislative elections, in which the contribution of territorial references in various provinces was key to the triumph of JxC at the national level.
However, despite his electoral power, the opposition representation of the different jurisdictions was not reflected in the composition of the National Tablethe main body leading the space and where CABA and GBA leaders predominate, such as Mauricio Macri, Patricia Bullrich and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
The call to this Federal Table was agreed at a meeting held on February 15 with the presence of the presidents of the main parties that make up JxC: Patricia Bullrich (PRO), Miguel Angel Pichetto (Republican Peronism), Gerardo Morales (UCR) and Maximiliano Ferraro (CC).
to the meeting JxC leaders such as Margarita Stolbizer, Luis Juez, Graciela Ocaña, Claudio Poggi from San Juan, Roberto Basualdo and Susana Laciar from San Juan and Carlos Zapata from Salta would attend.among others.
JxC thus adds to the decision-making table members of its parliamentary blocs who today do not have representation in the national leadershipin which only radicalism, the PRO, the Civic Coalition and Pichetto’s Republican Peronism are represented.
After this meeting of the Federal Board, the next JxC institutional event will be a seminar on the fight against drug trafficking, on March 3, to work on the preparation of an emergency bill on the matter, which will then would be presented in Congress.
Another issue that will begin to be debated at the JxC Federal Table are the mechanisms to settle the internal ones for governor in those provinces that do not have primary elections.
Apart from these internal issues, it is likely that the vote in Parliament on the agreement with the International Monetary Fund will be discussed at Tuesday’s meeting.
The understanding will be supported in general terms by JxC, although while radicalism and the Civic Coalition have already announced that they will support it, from the PRO they could add votes against and, in some cases, abstentions.
While the opposition tries to put its internal leadership bodies in order, in several districts, such as the strategic province of Buenos Aires, political movements begin to take shape towards the 2023 elections, with several potential candidates for Governor.
Diego Santilli, from the PRO, was positioned after having beaten Victoria Tolosa Paz the legislative elections in the national deputy category for the province last year.
Since then, the “Colorado” walks the Buenos Aires territory as if it were already in campaign.
Last Monday he was in Lomas de Zamora, on Tuesday in Merlo, in the west of the suburbs, on Wednesday in Luján and during the week he will tour the districts of the northern corridor: Monday in San Isidro and Tuesday in San Fernando.
Santilli is not alone in the list of PRO applicants who aspire to reach the chair that is today in the hands of Axel Kicillof.
Cristian Ritondo, Jorge Macri (who despite being a Buenos Aires official retains his influence in the province) and a group of mayors, among whom Julio Garro from La Plata and Néstor Grindetti, from Lanús, are also noted.
These days both are facing an experiment to attract votes for the Buenos Aires PRO that they called Hace.
Those close to the assembly of this space indicated to Télam that both community leaders saw “a lack” of the PRO in the Buenos Aires assembly that they aim to solve with “the recruitment of Peronists or members of other parties”, those who can be convinced to join this political sector.
As an example of the challenges of the PRO in the province of Buenos Aires, In the last legislative elections, the party founded by former president Mauricio Macri was unable to present candidates in 20 of the 135 municipalities. in which the province is divided, and the shipowners of Hace consider that this “cannot be repeated” in the face of the 2023 elections.
Both Garro and Grindetti are political allies of the national deputy Santilli, at the same time that they are betting on the presidential candidacy of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
In fact, Garro was in charge of supervising the PRO legislative elections in the province, while Grindetti was Santilli’s campaign manager.
However, both communal chiefs do not rule out facing themselves a candidacy for the provincial government, if the numbers of the surveys accompany them.
Garro and Grindetti presented their new political line in society before the rest of the mayors of Together Days spent at a summit of communal leaders of Together held in the City of Mar del Plata.
Another political fact that tries to reverse this new political space is that of the totality of mayors that Together has in the province of Buenos Aires, the majority are radicals.
Out of 135 municipalities, Together governs in 61 districts, but of this total only 20 are from the PRO, while the majority are from radical extraction.
As for radicalism, its members also want to have their own voice in the race for the provincial government.
The name that stands out in this sense is that of Maximiliano Abad, head of the Buenos Aires UCR and a man with fluid contacts with the main national referents of the party.
In addition, Abad has the advantage of having smooth access to the two best-positioned radical presidential candidates: Gerardo Morales from Jujuy and Facundo Manes from Buenos Aires, with whom he shared a political summit on the Atlantic Coast in recent hours.
