Eduardo Paladini
04/08/2021 10:33
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 04/08/2021 10:33
The confirmation to
Clarín
arrived, paradoxically, when he was leaving the City of Buenos Aires.
About to get on a plane to go to Bariloche -where she would end up being scanned by Santiago Maldonado's
brother-
,
Patricia Bullrich
let it be known through a spokesperson that the decision had been made: she will be a
candidate for
Buenos Aires national
deputy
for Together for Change .
This was explained by a
spokesman for the former Minister of Security
to this newspaper: "She is going to be a candidate. Now she is not going to confirm it in public, but the decision has been made."
Is it a preliminary step for a national application in 2023?
"Bringing that election now is a mistake, speaking in two years is science fiction. Look at Alberto Fernández: in March 2020 he measured 70 positive image points and then he fell apart," he completed.
As
Clarín
announced
, Bullrich's movements have been followed with special attention by
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
.
Not only because the head of government is also the political head of Together for Change in the district, but because in her 2023 presidential plan the former minister began to emerge as a potential rival.
Fernán Quirós with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
Will the Minister of Health be the letter from the head of government to stop Patricia Bullrich in an intern?
With that medium-term fight virtually launched, the question in those who encourage the Larreta 2023 variant is
what to do with Bullrich
.
A former senior official of Cambiemos, already launched for the province of Buenos Aires, suggested major surgery.
And urgent: "You have to stop Patricia now.
Put (Fernán) Quirós in an intern
and stop her now. If she wins the City comfortably, by 2023 you won't stop her anymore. (Mauricio) Macri put her as president of the PRO For that".
One of the leaders who works closest to the head of government in his presidential plan seeks to lower the price of the former minister: "There is no problem with her, because in no way can she be a competitive candidate in 2023. She does not get a vote. out of the fishbowl of macrismo. He has a 2% positive image among Alberto Fernández's voters. 2% eh, not 22% ".
And without question from this newspaper, he continues: "You can defend your own vote and win the City comfortably, because today the Larreta and Juntos por el Cambio brand surpasses any candidate in our district. But even other potential candidates that we measure have better numbers that Patricia ".
- Who? Clarín interrupts now.
- Quirós, (Diego) Santilli, (María Eugenia) Vidal and even (Martín) Lousteau.
- But did any of them express their decision to be a candidate in the City?
- Quirós is difficult, especially in this context of a pandemic. Santilli prefers to go to the Province and Vidal is more enigmatic. Lousteau, one day he wants to and another he doesn't. We will see. We do not rule out that Patricia leads the list, but that she does not come to ask for 5 legislators when her space in the City does not have that weight internally.
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Diego Santilli and Martín Lousteau, in the 2019 Buenos Aires campaign. The vice and the senator are also being measured in the City as potential candidates.
Weeks ago,
Larreta himself did not rule out in private talks that Bullrich leads the Buenos Aires ballot
.
The leader of the small table of the head of Government warns anyway: "Horacio was born from an intern with Michetti. And he already said that the PASO should be the norm and the consensus lists the exception. Of course we
do not rule out an intern
if she asks for too much. "
And what do they say about Bullrich's side?
"Patricia has no problem with an intern. We believe in that tool. In addition,
Larreta has the list so divided that there is no room for anyone.
And say that we go and lose, 60 to 40; it is still complicated because we take out many of the places he wants to conform to all his allies. "
And the bullrichista leader completes: "She is doing very well in the polls and Horacio grew a lot but has been stagnant a few months ago. But I insist:
thinking about 2023 today is a mistake
. There are the cases of (Francisco) De Narváez and ( Sergio Massa), who won in 2009 and 2013 and then nothing happened. Cambiemos won in 2017 and lost the presidential election two years later. "
The talk is interrupted.
The flight to Bariloche is about to leave.