Marcelo Hugo Helfgot
02/18/2021 9:45 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/18/2021 9:58 AM
"Radicalism is going to have a candidate for president,"
said Gerardo Morales as soon as he removed his chinstrap.
And right there he unveiled one of the reasons for the convocation of 25 party referents at the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Casa de Corrientes.
The governor of Jujuy also said, as in passing, what he had already been planning with several colonels of his troop in previous meetings: that he
"does not rule out" joining the list of annotated for the 2023 fight
, in which he included on this occasion the From Mendoza
Alfredo Cornejo
and
Mario Negri from
Cordoba
,
almost certain candidates for senators in this year's elections.
He also argued that
"we cannot go back to being the PRO caboose"
and that he has already spoken with the head of the Buenos Aires government,
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta,
about the intention of radicalism to plant interns to settle the presidential formula of
Together for Change.
Gerardo Morales leads the radical summit at Casa de Corrientes this Wednesday night.
It was quite a show of internal strength.
In the auditorium this Wednesday night were, among others, two of the three radical governors, the national parliamentary heads and the Buenos Aires province, the vice president of the National Committee, two former governors and a former deputy governor.
The two main ones excluded from the meeting were the objects of strong criticism.
On Cornejo, president of the National Committee, those present gave him the virtual "freeze" of party activity.
The Buenos Aires senator
Martín Lousteau
was criticized for his landing in the Buenos Aires intern in support of
Gustavo Posse
, of whom several recalled his political zigzags.
"That it concentrates in fighting the head of Government in the Capital and stops nationalizing the campaign in another district",
was the complaint of the most obfuscated with Lousteau.
Some of them, in fact, withdrew earlier along with
Maxi Abad -
Posse's rival - to go to an act of the official campaign in Avellaneda, where they supported the local candidate, the former journalist
Luis Otero.
Negri and the Buenos Aires
Miguel Bazze, Daniel Salvador and Karina Banfi left there,
who was about to be
Mauricio Macri's
running mate
in 2019
.
The host,
Gustavo Valdés
, who this year is for re-election in Corrientes, in addition to his predecessor,
Ricardo Colombi
,
stayed until the end
;
the people of Buenos Aires
Alejandra Lordén
(vice de Cornejo),
Josefina Mendoza, Juan Pedro Tunessi, Carlos Fernández and Fabio Quetglas
;
the senator from Formosa
Luis Naidenoff;
the Chaco
Angel Rozas
;
the tucumanos
José Cano and Silvia Elías de Pérez
;
Ricardo Gil Lavedra from
Buenos Aires
and
Atilio Benedetti from
Entre Ríos
, among others.
Ernesto Sanz
sang absent with warning.
There was talk of strengthening the party at the national level "since there could be a STEP in provinces where a list of unity with other partners of Together for Change is not achieved" for the legislative elections of 2021. And about the idea of suspending or modifying the primaries promoted by the Government, although different positions came to light, it was agreed to abide by what is defined by the national table of Together for Change.
In this framework, Morales raised the idea of calling a party congress after the inmates of the Province and Capital on March 21.
The Jujuy is secretary general of the party, a position he won in a tight arm wrestling from Enrique Nosiglia, Lousteau's political godfather, in 2019.
During his speech and in hall meetings, the Jujuy considered that the party should put a dam on the parade of leaders who seek to agree in advance with Larreta, considering him the "sung" candidate of the opposition in 2023.
"It is not the same governor the richest city to rule the country, "he
harangued.
He also acknowledged that he had been confined in his province, but that now "with the accounts in order," he is going to walk the provinces for the assembly of the legislative lists.
According to several of those attending the summit, Morales looks toned by the recent favorable ruling of the Supreme Court in the
Milagro Sala
case
, although surely in his tours they will take a toll on his approach to President
Alberto Fernández,
including votes of his legislators together with him. block K, as in the case of
the wealth tax.
The Jujuy is in his second term as governor and will
not be able to seek re-election.
His first objective before confirming whether he will join the presidential elections would be to
rise to the leadership of the National Committee in December,
when Cornejo's term ends.
And from there be the executor of the radical strategy for 2023.
