Marcelo Hugo Helfgot
05/23/2020 - 16:13
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The assembly was cooked over the summer on a grill in San Telmo. As the boys of before did. But the premiere was by Zoom, as is quarantined fashion. The truth is that Martín Lousteau crossed the General Paz on Friday in virtual format to lay a milestone for his Buenos Aires group, Evolución, in Buenos Aires territory. The radical inmate just shook herself, in a pandemic.
His new allies, Gustavo Posse and Federico Storani , awaited him with open arms. With the two leaders of the party opposition in the Province, the senator had shared that summer table, to which another "historian", Enrique "Coti" Nosiglia, and the deputy Emiliano Yacobitti, head operator of the incipient "lousteauism", had also sat. .
The mayor of San Isidro, Gustavo Posse, received the visit and support of Senator Martín Lousteau and Federico Storani on March 15.
The baptism of fire of the former Minister of Economy was through a videoconference where he exposed the need to plan "the economy the day after" of the quarantine and "to change the party paradigm." He explained it like this: "have a vision of what we want to represent instead of continuing to react to what the other does ." Telephone for the authorities (national and provincial) of radicalism.
The Zoom that brought together a thousand followers, the majority sub-40, was organized by the rector of the University of Almirante Brown, Pablo Domenichini, automatically erected in the benchmark of Evolution in a province where the UCR makes several elections at the tail of the PRO . Domenichini chaired the FUA and was linked to Yacobitti by the student militancy. Thus he came to Lousteau.
Lousteau with Pablo Domenichini and other referents of the UCR in Bone and Buenos Aires, before the pandemic.
The rector is the general secretary of the Provincial Committee, a position that came from the hand of the provincial deputy Maximiliano Abad, the candidate of the former deputy governor Daniel Salvador to succeed him in the district headquarters. But now they have given him the mission of articulating with Posse, who has launched to dispute the position as soon as the opening comes and internal elections can be called .
The competition is not less: from there the radical candidate for the Interior could emerge in 2023. His Macrist allies, it is known, explore names such as María Eugenia Vidal (if he does not fight again in the City, where he moved), Jorge Macri and Cristian Ritondo . The one by Emilio Monzó is also circulating , by these hours an ally of the triplet Lousteau-Posse-Storani, all more in tune with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta than with hard macrism.
Weeks ago, another video conference called by the San Isidro Committee brought Lousteau together with Mayor Posse and Storani. It was the aperitif of the agreement that could shelter everyone under the tent of Evolution , which would not be paradoxical, since it was the force that Lousteau created for his frustrated challenge to Larreta in the City.
One of his ideologues defines the play like this: "Posse brings management, Storani and Casella the radical identity, and Lousteau the projection into the future."
Precisely about the future of Lousteau various speculations are woven. His status as an emerging figure - he is the best-known and best-image radical in the entire country, behind Ricardo Alfonsín, who is now Alberto Fernández's ally - enables him to cross the capital's limits and project an eventual presidential career by 2023. But not even his team knows if that happens to be Plan A or remains Plan B, in case Larreta's support cannot be secured to succeed him in the City government.
So far, the projection and penetration capacity of Lousteau in the youth layers has been demonstrated. But the scenario would be incomplete if the irritation generated in much of the party structure is not mentioned , which comes from stabbing a dagger when he mocked the deputies who made the crossing of the chinstrap, calling it a "circus".
In addition, the Buenosairean challenge does not stop sowing an unknown quantity, given the strong roots of the party official (cataloged as "the yellows", due to its proximity to the government of Mauricio Macri ) among the mayors of the interior.
It is even commented that to counteract the presence of a famous person like Lousteau in the Posse campaign, the former vice-governor does not rule out taking the figure of the journalist Luis Otero, a former candidate in Avellaneda and promoter of the only public teleconference of the national table of Together for Change.