The debacle of PROonce dominant force of the Argentine center, it seems to have reached its final break point. In a turn that few would have anticipated just a few years ago, the party founded by Mauricio Macri is today eclipsed by the overwhelming advance of freedom progresses, which has dyed violet the historic yellow, leaving the former president in a secondary role and his political space at the edge of extinction.
The electoral alliance between the PRO And La Libertad advances, sealed by Macri and Karina Milei, marked a before and after. What began as a strategy to avoid a humiliating defeat ended up diluting the identity of the PRO.
In the province of Buenos Aires, historical bastion of macrismo, the main referents such as Diego Santilli and Cristian Ritondo aligned with the libertarian ruling, abandoning the symbols and colors that once represented their party.
The current campaign does not show a single yellow glimpse. He PROIn fact, it has become a libertarian franchise, with leaders who adopt the speech, aesthetics and logic of Milei. The comparison with the Villa Dálmine club, with a violet shirt, is not accidental: macrismo has lost its brand, its narrative and its autonomy.
The agreement with the libertarians not only implied a symbolic assignment, but also structural. Macri delivered the “writing” of the parent house of the PROas commented in the political halls, in a desperate attempt to avoid an electoral role. The decision generated strong internal tensions.
María Eugenia Vidal, for example, publicly expressed her rejection of the pact, while Horacio Rodríguez Larreta was contacted to explore a center alternative that never came to consolidate. The internal fracture is deep. The PRO no longer has clear driving, its leaders are scattered in personal projects, and its electoral base has blurred.
The occupation of the PRO
The comparison with the history of Eduardo Duhalde in 2005 is revealing: like the Peronist ex -president, Macri failed to dissociate himself from the government he once supported, and ended up yielding to an emerging force that surpassed him in mobilization and narrative capacity.
While the extremes gain ground, the moderate offer is increasingly weak. The political center, which once was the natural space of the PROtoday it appears fragmented and without leadership. Attempts to build an alternative between Kirchnerism and Mileism have failed, partly because of the lack of figures with electoral weight and partly due to the growing polarization that dominates the stage.
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