Martin Bravo
04/06/2021 2:11 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 04/06/2021 2:11 PM
Prior to the face-to-face meeting of the national board of Together for Change, the predominant position among the members is to
open negotiations
to postpone the PASO for a month, with the condition of having guarantees that
they are not suspended or carried out beyond that period
or on the same date as the general ones.
The members of the opposition coalition in turn decided to demand the implementation of the
single ballot
and the enabling of
voting by letter
for Argentines living abroad.
In the attempt to unify positions, the
refusal to eliminate the primaries
or to join them with the general ones generated the coincidence of the representatives of the PRO, the UCR and the Civic Coalition.
Sergio Massa's statements heightened the alert in this regard.
"I would prefer to vote in a single day," the head of the Chamber of Deputies had said.
The differences between those who were opposed to opening a negotiation and those who were predisposed to discuss a postponement began to be settled with the condition of "guarantees" by the ruling party that there will be a STEP on a date separate from the general ones.
But if Massa put pressure with a maximum position, the opponents
agreed to add requests
: the single ballot - resisted by the ruling party - and the reverse of the repeal of the decree so that Argentines abroad vote early.
The meeting will be the
first with a face-to-face format
, after the last virtual one with the controversies over the image of Mauricio Macri in the room and his wife Juliana Awada in bed.
In addition to the former president, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, María Eugenia Vidal, Patricia Bullrich, Cristian Ritondo and Humberto Schiavoni confirmed for the PRO;
Alfredo Cornejo, Mario Negri, Luis Naidenoff, Martín Lousteau and
this time the governors
Rodolfo Suárez, Gerardo Morales and Gustavo Valdés
will join
for radicalism;
Maximiliano Ferraro, Maricel Etchecoin and Juan López for the Civic Coalition and Miguel Pichetto for Republican Peronism.
As a
first step they closed ranks to reject the eventual unification of the STEP and general: they considered that materialize will be
a sort of law of mottos
that will
benefit the Frente de Todos " It
always comes you better officialdom
: you assemble many more lists , they have more logistics for the ballots and they put Peronism inside from end to end ”.
A postponement will also be convenient for the Government, to try to buy time with the vaccination process, although at the same time voting in August would have a
cost for Together for Change
, according to the members of the national table.
Elisa Carrió publicly admitted it: "If it suits us, it does not matter that it is a manipulation of the Government."
The opponents considered it
negative to campaign
in the middle of the scenario once again complicated by the pandemic, and also estimated that in the middle of winter there could be
less participation of older adults
, a portion of the electorate more favorable to Together for Change than to the Front of All.
The members of the table plan to include in the statement the request to maintain economic activity and face-to-face classes, and refer to inflation and insecurity.
“It is reasonable to move the PASO for a month, but there is mistrust and it can be a trap.
It has to be something very institutional, in writing,
and that they commit not to move them beyond the one-month agreement ”, they stated.
They will also demand a
formal call
to discuss it, after the noise generated by the meeting at the Casa Rosada, in which Máximo Kirchner, Massa, Axel Kicillof and Wado de Pedro spoke on the subject with Ritondo, Jorge Macri and Erica Revilla.
Both Macri and Rodríguez Larreta and Vidal in the previous one were willing to endorse the postponement of the primaries.
The Buenos Aires head of government defined it at a lunch on Monday, with his own leaders and allies.
"It is necessary to reach a joint and consistent position, there must be separate primary and general and if there is a modification that is to
improve the system beyond the pandemic, without giving the Government discretion
," summarized those present.
The radicals met this Tuesday at noon to agree on the party's position, also
inclined to open a negotiation
.
Morales and Valdés agreed to suspend the primaries, although they later decided to accept the definition of the majority.
"We are going to abide by the decision of Together for Change, our force does not agree with eliminating the PASO," the Jujuy president told
Clarín
at the weekend
.
