Bernardo Vazquez
02/07/2021 16:05
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/07/2021 16:05
"Proud mother of Camila, María José and Pedrito. Proudly from Buenos Aires."
The bio of
María Eugenia Vidal's
Twitter account
summarizes two central aspects in the life of the former governor.
On the one hand, her maternal role;
on the other, his sense of belonging to the province that he ruled for four years.
From 2015 to 2019, both facets coexisted naturally.
In 2021, after a 2020 almost sabbatical in political terms, and especially on the road to 2023, the question is whether Vidal is willing to give up the time gained with family and friends or if she is seduced by a return to the ring as a candidate in the next legislative ones.
After taking a fortnight of vacations divided into two short stays in Pinamar and Bariloche, both with his partner Enrique Sacco, and the first with his three children, Vidal
definitely returned to the ring and analyzes reappearing in the media from March
.
That does not mean that on that date there can be a confirmation on whether or not he will play electorally in the August and October elections, but he will be able to know his analysis of the current political-economic situation, especially from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The first clarification made by sources of continuous dialogue with the former Buenos Aires president is that
Vidal actively participates in the political life of Juntos por el Cambio
.
This is reflected in the Zoom of which he is part of the small table of the space, but also in the day to day, coordinating meetings with mayors and legislators.
This week, for example, he visited Jorge Macri, Vicente López's communal chief.
He is also seen frequently with Néstor Grindetti, from Lanús, and Diego Valenzuela, from Tres de Febrero, among others.
And he
has regular talks with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
.
María Eugenia Vidal and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, together.
It is with the head of the Buenos Aires Government, they say near Vidal, with whom she feels more comfortable to work in the face of what is coming, with a project that excites her and that, she believes, by his side may be easier to build.
"
Horacio is their friend, they trust and have an admiration and respect that is mutual," they comment
on their relationship with whom, through management, appears at this time in the polls as the central reference of Together for Change for the presidential elections of 2023 .
That horizon to two and a half years is distant, but Vidal does not avoid it.
Those who work at his side believe that it is still premature to talk about electoral aspirations, even for this 2021, but they also
suggest that by 2023 a figure of Vidal's relief
, with the high rate of knowledge at the national level that he has - higher than his own Rodríguez Larreta, they indicate,
cannot project a lower
or similar position to the one she already held as governor of the most populous district in the country.
That is why they believe that naturally
Vidal is presidential
, like Rodríguez Larreta, and that due to the degree of affinity they have between them, it would be an issue that "they resolve in a talk, with a coffee."
María Eugenia Vidal and her partner, Enrique Sacco.
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A highly trusted political leader recently commented to Vidal, in a talk they had, that "if I go out in my city, nobody knows me; but every time you do it, everyone comes to greet you."
That political capital, in votes and by public knowledge, that the former governor has is what makes her
analyze in detail her next steps
, although she is very clear about how she is going to proceed in one sense.
"Everyone wants María Eugenia to be 'this or that' or they say 'it helps us if you go here or there', but no one asks her a key question, which is the one she hopes:
'What do you want to be? '
", they say in their environment.
Vidal feels that he has
already played a lot for the team
.
She did it in 2011, when she was a running mate of Mauricio Macri as deputy head of the Buenos Aires government, and also shortly before 2015, when she began touring the province with a few allies.
From there, they argue, he was a key part of what was then seen as a utopia: Macri president, Vidal governor. "
Also in 2017, they recall, he put the body to a successful campaign of Cambiemos by his leadership from the province of Buenos Aires, and he repeated in 2019, accompanying a government mired in a strong economic crisis that led to a frustrating election for the refurbished Together for Change, with the triumphs, in Nation, of Alberto Fernández and Axel Kicillof, in Province.
This time Vidal wants to play in his own way, with his own flight and
convinced of a seductive and comprehensive proposal
.
This is where the cracks arise with the previous model that Macri led.
The relationship of "affection and respect" between both endures and will continue.
But today, near Vidal, they see
the original Cambiemos stage as a completed cycle
.
María Eugenia Vidal and Mauricio Macri, during the management of both in Province and Nation, in 2019.
In tune with a global trend of empowerment of women and more participation in public office,
Together for Change brings together three female figures with very high profiles and high levels of voting intention
: Vidal, Elisa Carrió and Patricia Bullrich.
Whether all three played in these elections, two, one or none, is still an undisclosed unknown.
But there is general agreement that the opposition space needs them to be competitive in the province and in the city of Buenos Aires.
Vidal's relationship
with Carrió, highlighted in vidalism, is "excellent"
, of affection and respect gained during these years of working together.
With Bullrich, even with different views of politics, they agree on the workforce and the importance they give to management, as well as having a fluid dialogue.
The photo between Carrió and Bullrich from the beginning of the year suggests a scenario of unity of the three "strong ladies" of the opposition.
But
there is a fourth link that excites those who analyze the political map with Vidal
.
Vidal and Carrió, together.
They have an "excellent" relationship, they assure from vidalism.
It is about
Margarita Stolbizer
, from GEN, with a high degree of knowledge in society and many electoral miles traveled in campaigns in the province of Buenos Aires.
The relationship between Vidal and Stolbizer, both references that emerged from Castelar, is very good
, beyond not having shared the same political sign in these years.
Stolbizer's historical differences with Carrió could be an impediment, but it is Vidal, precisely, who could act as a conciliator in order to summon a figure that he believes is necessary.
The former deputy winked in an interview with Clarín, ready to build alliances to compete in the next elections.
