Eduardo Paladini
06/13/2021 17:05
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 06/13/2021 17:05
While the spotlights are on the hot opposition internal in the province of Buenos Aires, shaken this weekend by the reappearance of the radical Facundo Manes, the
Buenos Aires fight of Together for Change is
also adding weight news. Former Minister
Ricardo López Murphy
confirmed this Sunday that he
decided to run to be a candidate for national deputy for the City
and has already added his first campaign photo. In a bar he met
Patricia Bullrich
, president of the PRO and another of the key aspirants in CABA.
"It is time to participate in the next elections to be a National Deputy for the City of Buenos Aires to defend the ideas of freedom. It is a historic opportunity to put a brake on the populism and authoritarianism of the K in Congress," he tweeted López Murphy, who under the seal of United Republicans
had been promoting a national army together with other actors of liberalism and the center-right
.
But what threatened to be a great alliance, which could even "eat up" votes from Together for Change, began to lose strength in recent weeks, especially after the scandal that struck José Luis Espert and alleged contributions from a narco to your 2019 campaign.
With Espert himself negotiating his admission to the board of Juntos por el Cambio en Provincia and other actors such as Cynthia Hotton announcing the launch of his own candidates with José Antonio Romero Feris from Corrientes,
López Murphy decided to resume his contacts with the macrismo and sign up for the internal porteña.
Ricardo López Murphy and José Luis Espert: two liberals seeking to enter the Juntos por el Cambio intern.
López Murphy and Bullrich have an old political relationship
.
In 2003, after the economist won the presidential election in the City that would end up consecrating Néstor Kirchner at the national level, he supported the leader as a candidate for head of government.
This year, they had shared some chats by zoom, which led to speculation about López Murphy joining Juntos por el Cambio.
With the arming of a liberal force throughout the country, the rapprochement cooled.
But now it got hot again
.
In parallel to the contacts with Bullrich, López Murphy has also
been negotiating the OK of the district chief, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
, whom he has also known for years, when both were part of the Alliance.
The head of government has been promoting the implementation of PASO to settle internal differences in force.
And in that scheme, López Murphy could enter the City with a list.
In any case, it is necessary to resolve the central question.
With Bullrich also launched in Capital,
will Larreta put someone to stop it?
If María Eugenia Vidal does not accept, will she turn to her Minister of Education, Soledad Acuña?
Or could there be an agreement so that the former minister finally heads and the dispute for 2023 is left for later?
As a sign of relaxation, on Friday,
one of Larreta's shipowners - Environment Secretary Eduardo Macchiavelli - greeted Bullrich on Twitter on his birthday
and told him that it was a "pride that we work together in this space after so many years defending the ideals of the Argentines ".
An umbrella in case the holder of the PRO ends up leading in CABA?