Martin Bravo
06/16/2021 10:00
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 06/16/2021 10:00
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich
paused the fight for the list in the City
to show a coincidence and promote the expansion of Together for Change in the next legislative sessions. The head of the Buenos Aires government and the head of the PRO shared a lunch with José Luis Espert to advance their incorporation into the coalition. In this case the internal was unleashed
between the Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires referents
: the leaders of the table of the province, district in which the liberal economist intends to land, are unaware of the negotiations.
Accompanied by Diego Santilli, Rodríguez Larreta received Bullrich on Tuesday at the Uspallata headquarters -he arrived with Gerardo Milman, former Secretary of Security- and in turn the four were hosts of Espert and José Luis Rosales, his running mate in 2019. "
We move forward so that they can participate in the STEP
Together for Change ”, they let it transcend from both sectors, in this case along the same lines. In that meeting they did not touch the differences on the list in the Capital. Bullrich remains determined to head the ballot, with the backing of Mauricio Macri, while Rodríguez Larreta looks for another figure closer to his space and awaits the definition of María Eugenia Vidal.
In last week's meeting, in which there was no agreement on the candidacy - the mayor proposed to define it by polls, the president of the PRO rejected it - both had approached positions on the party's position for eventual incorporations. The following day, in the face-to-face meeting of the national table, they spoke
in favor of promoting the expansion
of the coalition.
Rodríguez Larreta even opened the possibility of changing the name of the front, as a signal to future allies. "The debate began on how the electoral regulations are going to be so that all those who have asked to participate in our PASO can do so," declared Bullrich upon leaving, referring to the internal rules to form the lists for the general elections. At that meeting, they
agreed to set a low floor
- although each percentage would be defined by each district - to boost income.
“If we want to defeat Kirchnerism forever in 2023, that begins in 2021 in the province.
Let's all go to a STEP and let the people decide.
We provide the economic wisdom that Juntos por el Cambio did not have, ”Espert told
Clarín
earlier this month, after meeting with Macri and separately with Rodríguez Larreta and Bullrich. At the joint lunch on Tuesday, the negotiations advanced, although they clarified to the economist that the final decision will depend "on the entire coalition" and that the percentage that will function as a floor
"will not be a simple matter"
and will have to be discussed with the party authorities Buenos Aires.
Rodríguez Larreta pushes the opening of Together for Change, with the purpose of also seducing leaders such as Ricardo López Murphy and Margarita Stolbizer.
“How are the results of this election going to be counted?
Partly because of how we are doing in the City and they are in the Province
”, was the reasoning at the Uspallata headquarters.
In this scheme, the points that Espert can contribute in Buenos Aires territory are of interest, with the aim of contesting the result or shortening the distance as much as possible.
The members of the Buenos Aires board of Together for Change, this Tuesday in San Miguel.
A few hours later the response would arrive from the Buenos Aires board of Together for Change, which met on Tuesday afternoon in San Miguel, with Joaquín de La Torre as host. “
This is not the time to expand in a legislative election but to consolidate
. It is expanded in an election to define the government ”, stated Jorge Macri at that meeting. The mayor of Vicente López
rejected the ground floor and the negotiations
with the referents of the City, not only Espert: "Of all those who go to Uspallata instead of talking to the politics of the province."
The radicals - at that table represented by Maximiliano Abad and Erica Revilla - were not so blunt and said that the incorporations and the floors will continue to be discussed in that area, although they also warned:
"The issues of the province are resolved in the province
.
"
De la Torre agrees with Jorge Macri mainly in the rejection of Santilli's landing, while Espert generates objections.
Since the beginning of the negotiations, a sector of Together for Change had questioned the economist, from the warning that his entry could be
a “trap, a Trojan horse”
, to his links with Federico Machado, detained in Neuquén at the request Interpol for alleged drug trafficking. Espert rejects the accusations of having financed himself with an alleged narco, although the episode had an impact on the disarming of the space with other liberals such as López Murphy and Javier Milei.
