06/29/2021 8:34 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 06/29/2021 8:44 PM
In another sign -the third in four days- of his inclination to launch himself into electoral politics
, Facundo Manes
held a virtual meeting with a group of radical mayors from Buenos Aires.
"This election is about what kind of country we want to be,
perhaps it will be the battle of our lives,
" said the neuroscientist at the closing, after the communal chiefs endorsed his eventual candidacy for deputy in the province of Buenos Aires.
“We Argentines are much more than this.
The pandemic is a multidimensional battle that we will always remember and we need to measure up.
We have to be disruptive
, with innovative, honest proposals, to face the day after, ”said Manes at the meeting organized by
Maximiliano Abad,
head of the Provincial Committee, in which 31 mayors of the UCR participated.
Gustavo Posse,
from San Isidro - defeated by a small margin in the internal party - was missing, preparing his own set up to compete with his own list in the PASO.
"I want to learn from you who are in the territory, who know the needs of the neighbors in this pandemic, which is not only a health crisis, but also a moral, economic, educational, ideological and humanitarian crisis," Manes opened the meeting, and so it gave way to the word of the communal chiefs, who in their speeches gave him a kind of welcome and chained an
"operative clamor"
to encourage him to confirm his candidacy.
The neurologist had just received the
first blows
from the allies of radicalism in Together for Change.
"That boy who now wants to enter politics to become president in two years,"
Elisa Carrió
dedicated to him
.
"One thing is to be a neuroscientist and another is to have culture,"
also pointed out the founder of the Civic Coalition, and raised
Diego Santilli,
the one chosen by
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
to head the ballot.
"Much feint, it seems Burrito Ortega," was
also questioned by the deputy from Santa Fe, Federico Angelini, vice president of the PRO.
Gerardo Morales,
one of the promoters of his candidacy, came out to support him.
The governor of Jujuy took him to the stage of his triumph in that province on Sunday, with
Martín Lousteau
.
The day before, the neurologist and the senator had starred in the act in the National Committee, for the 130 years of the UCR.
Manes and Lousteau shared a coffee on Tuesday with the mayor of Rosario,
Pablo Javkin
, a former radical who plays in the Santa Fe Progressive Front, but who does not hide the idea of putting together a broad opposition coalition in 2023.
In the Zoom with the mayors, Manes received an endorsement for his entry into politics.
"You are the entrance to a new country,"
said Miguel Lunghi, from Tandil.
“We need you to be there
, to play, to represent us.
We are going to push ”, harangued Maximiliano Suescun, from Rauch.
“Having you as the protagonist for what is coming is a joy.
Play hard,
we are ready to do everything to help you, ”said Daniel Capeletti, from Brandsen.
Thus the speeches followed one another, with similar words.
"It is very important for me, in these
days of decision
, to listen to them, both politically and humanly," Manes closed, leaving open the
decision
on his candidacy.
A while later, in Vicente López, the members of the Juntos por el Cambio provincial board met: the host Jorge Macri, Néstor Grindetti, Abad, Erica Revilla, Joaquín de la Torre, Manuel Passaglia, Maricel Etchecoin and Andrés De Leo, the last two by Zoom.
With the scenario locked on the candidacies, there was no progress in terms of possible agreements to avoid the internal ones.
“It was an administrative meeting, they talked about the attorneys, rather technical issues.
It was not the scope for other definitions,
"they said.
Jorge Macri
maintains his position of being a candidate if Santilli is nominated and Posse announced that he will compete in the primaries, so if Manes confirms his candidacy for the moment,
four
Juntos por el Cambio
ballots
are being prepared
for the PASO.