Those close to national deputy Javier Milei affirm that La Libertad Avanza is “very well positioned” for this year’s presidential elections and assure that “there is no type of agreement or conversations with any other space”While the lawyer Carlos Maslatón, who still feels part of the group, maintains his questions to the strategy on the definition of the candidacies.
After a tour of the Atlantic coast, sources from that space confirmed to Télam that “they have leaders working in all the districts”, in order to get comfortable with the applications.
Although they have not yet made known the chosen ones in all the provinces, and although they still do not have a candidate for Buenos Aires governor, they flatly denied “any type of agreement or conversation with another political space.”
“Saying that we have nothing is part of the strategy of Together for Change (JxC) and they use the media to install it”considered the presidential candidate in radio statements.
Milei assured that in the Buenos Aires district they have “127 municipalities of the 135 armed” and that “it is more powerful than the one that (former President Mauricio) Macri had in 2015.”
The deputy opened the campaign this year through a tour of Mar del Plata, Pinamar and Cariló last weekend.
On the walk he was accompanied by his sister Karina; the national shipowner Carlos Kikuchi; Buenos Aires legislators Ramiro Marra and Oscar Zago; the shipowner from Buenos Aires Sebastián Pareja and the leader from Santa Fe Romina Diez, among others.
In Mar del Plata, local references Alejandro Carrancio and Juliana Santillán joined, and in Pinamar, Alejandro Oliveros.
Maslaton’s criticisms
The certainty that there will be candidacies everywhere was questioned by Maslatón, who stated in statements to Télam that “they don’t have people anywhere” and indicated that “they will arrive without people at the presentation of lists.”
The lawyer had the intention of contesting the candidacy for the presidency in the PASO within La Libertad Avanza.
However, this was rejected by the group, from where they assured that “it is not from space and no type of competition will be opened.”
“They don’t have people anywhere, because it goes against the business they have, which is the business of selling the candidacies,” denounced Maslaton.
Along these lines, he assured that “the Libertad Avanza has become a totalitarian movement” and maintained that “what was a great political project is vanishing due to ineptitude and totalitarianism.”
The liberal lawyer, who founded the Unión para la Apertura Universitaria (Upau) almost four decades ago and belonged to the kidney of the liberal leader Álvaro Alsogaray, again pointed out Kikuchi and Karina Milei as the culprits of “having thrown overboard everything that It was done”.
Despite the differences, Maslatón confirmed that he continues to consider himself “within space” and that “he will vote for Javier Milei in the 2023 elections.”
“When one has differences in politics, I settle them within the space, it is not changed due to a lack of agreement with the leadership. I always said that I was in disagreement with what they were doing, but that I was going to fight internally within La Libertad Avanza,” insisted Maslatón .
Besides, from the leadership of LLA they insisted that “they have leaders working in all districts” and that “there are still a few months ahead”.
In addition, they denied the speculation of an alliance between the space and the Radical Civic Union (UCR) in the province of Buenos Aires.
Milei confirmed this in an interview he gave to Radio Continental, in which he described it as “unfeasible”. a political agreement with the centennial party of Alem and Yrigoyen.
“With the UCR, a political agreement is unfeasible. I have nothing to do with those people and I will not have anything to do with anyone from the center-left, they are part of the Argentine failure”maintained the economist and deputy.
So far, Milei’s party has confirmed only five candidates for governor: Carlos Eguía in Neuquén, Ariel Rivero in Río Negro, César Treffinger in Chubut, Ricardo Bussi in Tucumán and Agustín Coto in Tierra del Fuego.
In this framework, from space they reported that the deputy will travel to the south starting next February to show his support for the Patagonian candidates of the libertarian party.
Although they have not yet defined a schedule of activities, he will be in Bariloche on February 24, in support of his reference to Governor Rivero.
As indicated by his relatives, the next day he will leave for San Martín de los Andes accompanied by the Neuquén candidate Eguía; on the way they would stop at Villa La Angostura.
The Patagonian tour will end in Chubut, where it will disembark on March 10: Comodoro Rivadavia will first tour together with Treffinger, with whom it will close the second tour of 2023 on March 11 in Puerto Madryn.
