Federico Mayol
07/18/2021 3:45 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/18/2021 3:45 PM
They say that fixing with
Jorge Macri
cost him much more than with
Patricia Bullrich
. Those who closely followed the conversations between Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and the mayor of Vicente López assure that the negotiation included not only places on the already agreed lists, but also all kinds of requests and all kinds of offers. There are numerous versions, some of them unspeakable. There was even speculation, even with the creation of a new office in the Buenos Aires administration as a kind of retribution by the head of government for Macri's gesture of declining his candidacy and leaving
Diego Santilli
as the only candidate for the PRO.
Once the candidacy of María Eugenia Vidal, again from Buenos Aires, has been resolved,
Rodríguez Larreta spends most of his time in propping up the launch of Santilli -
scheduled for the beginning of the week - his representative in Buenos Aires territory.
At the government headquarters on Uspallata Street, they seek to minimize the margin of error for a simple reason:
Santilli's fate in the provincial primary in September is key depending on the presidential project of the head of government
.
In the larretismo they are convinced that the intern that arises with Facundo Manes is going to leave a triumph of the leader of Peronist roots.
And that this result will position the Buenos Aires boss as the main benchmark of the space for 2023.
"
What if he loses?
" Asked this newspaper.
Of course, they admit, it would be a hard misstep.
But they are confident: they even speculate on some kind of help from the sector of radicalism most closely related to the administration of the City.
In the opposition network, the links are increasingly crossed.
Jorge Macri with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta in the meeting in which he announced that he was lowering his candidacy in the province of Buenos Aires.
The advance of the head of Government in the province of Buenos Aires, and the move of Vidal, nevertheless left a line of injuries and a notorious moodiness among several of the PRO leaders of Greater Buenos Aires.
On Monday, in the meeting that a group of suburban mayors shared in the south of Buenos Aires, in which Mauricio Macri's cousin participated, bills were passed.
Vicente López's communal chief directly accused Diego Valenzuela of leaking information
.
Worse accusations are handed out at the bottom.
It's just a sample button.
The internal rearrangements now depend on Santilli's performance.
For now, the Buenos Aires official plans to resign from the Ministry of Security and Justice after the closing of lists, and do the same with the vice chief of government.
They discarded the license request
, to avoid speculation.
In this sense, a season of internal operations is opened by the first candidate for legislator, by the line of succession.
"We signed below Everyone's Front for seven points,"
an influential Buenos Aires collaborator
acknowledged to
Clarín
who awaits the qualitative study commissioned in these weeks and who is working on the campaign strategy, always under the hypothesis of a victory for Santilli in the intern with Manes.
They bet, in that sense, on the performance of Florencio Randazzo, for millions of reasons.
Diego Santilli in a Peronist act in Avellaneda, before the gaze of Diego Kravetz, a Lanús official who acted as host.
Photo Twitter.
But for one in particular.
Fanatics of the polls, in Uspallata they emphasize that, of every 10 votes that the former Interior Minister could add, between 7 and 8 would belong to Kirchnerism.
For the PRO,
losing to the ruling party by one digit is a worthy result after the overwhelming defeat of Vidal in 2019
.
The role that the head of government should have in the Buenos Aires campaign and in that of the City is discussed, for example, and with much less intensity in the interior of the country.
Rodríguez Larreta will have to deal with managing the third wave of the pandemic that, according to internal forecasts, would arrive in August, in the run-up to the primaries.
Although they hope that their impact is as slight as possible.
In any case, the focus on the Buenos Aires campaign does not prevent
Rodríguez Larreta from monitoring other items.
One of them is the Judicial Branch
, to which it is paying increasing attention in line with its presidential plan.
The head of government is particularly aware of all the negotiations regarding the competitions to fill the vacancies of the three courts of first instance and of the federal chamber of the federal courts of Comodoro Py.
It is reported by
Diego Marías
, his kidney advisor who also reports to Santilli.
Rodríguez Larreta
was convinced that Justice cannot be belittled
by a presidential candidate.
Unlike.
Facundo Manes when he was launched as a candidate.
He will be the rival of Diego Santilli in the internal opposition in the Province.
Whether there are news related to the vacancies of Comodoro Py to replace
Sergio Torres, Claudio Bonadio and Rodolfo Canicoba Corral
, in the middle of the electoral campaign, depends on political agreements. But in larretismo they agree that it is not unreasonable. "There is consensus in choosing names that do not fall badly for either party, neither the ruling party nor the opposition," they explained. Rodríguez Larreta follows the news as closely as Cristina Kirchner.
The most advanced of the contests is the replacement of Torres, who took office in the Buenos Aires Court in mid-2019. The first place in the contest went to Diego Arce, secretary of Ariel Lijo. For larretismo, the aspirant has no objections. It makes sense: in recent times,
Rodríguez Larreta strengthened the bond with Lijo
through friendly interlocutors.
