07/24/2021 5:33 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/24/2021 5:33 AM
"We are seven seats away from
Cristina getting everything
" is the mantra that legislators, leaders and activists of Together for Change repeat at hours of the closing of lists to compete in the PASO on September 12, in an almost desperate attempt for putting a brake on the internal dispute.
It is clear that the gaze of the main opposition force is in the Chamber of Deputies, where the interblock made up of the PRO, the UCR and the Civic Coalition must renew
60 of the 115 representatives
, in an unfavorable internal context.
The opposition coalition will put into play
the seats obtained in 2017
, when the payroll promoted by then-president Mauricio Macri obtained more than
41% percent
of the votes, in an election that left Cristina Kirchner in second place in the province of Buenos Aires Aires.
That is why, these days, in the offices of opposition legislators they agreed to admit that it is
a rather complex challenge to
maintain the more than 100 seats and that is why Mario Negri, radical leader and president of the Juntos por el Cambio interblock In the lower house, he warned that Kirchnerism was
seven seats away from its own quorum
, a phrase that Waldo Wolff was in charge of replicating among the macrismo.
By breaking down the analysis of the seats that are put into play in these mid-term elections, the opposition sees with concern what is happening in
Santa Fe
, where the failure of a unity agreement led to
four lists
.
The Santa Fe macrismo promotes Luciano Laspina, Gisela Scaglia, Jorge Faurie and Walter Ghione for Deputies, while the radicalism nominates Roy López Molina, followed by Lucila Lehmann and Enrique Paduán.
But for this intern also Mario Barletta, Germana Figueroa Casas and Germán Pugnaloni were signed up as candidates for the lower house and a fourth sector that promotes the pre-candidacies of Gabriel Chumpitaz, Victoria Tejeda and Rodrigo Borla.
Although everything is part of the game of democracy, inside Juntos por el Cambio they notice a dispersion of forces in a key district such as Santa Fe, where the opposition puts
five seats
at stake out
of a total of nine
.
Three others belong to Peronism in its different versions and the rest to the Civic and Social Progressive Front.
In Mendoza, another of the key districts for the opposition force,
five seats
are renewed
, of which three belong to Juntos por el Cambio.
In this district, the panorama seems to be clearer with the current senator Julio Cobos as a candidate for the list of Deputies - he would return to the lower house - and the second corresponds to a woman, who could again be Claudia Najul.
The third place on the list would go to the PRO and would be occupied by the president of the party in Mendoza, Álvaro Martínez.
Although another version encouraged the reelection of Luis Petri.
The Cambia Mendoza dispute was joined by United Republicans, who will have their own list to compete with Rodolfo Vargas Arizu at the helm.
Another of the provinces that is the axis of the opposition
army
is Córdoba, where
nine seats
are also renewed
and five belong to JxC
.
In this district, the internal dispute of Cambiemos has Mauricio Macri as one of the protagonists, since the former president wants to impose Gustavo Santos, his former Minister of Tourism, to head the list, but from the radicalism they promote Rodrigo de Loredo.
This arm wrestling is tied to the candidates for the Senate.
The UCR claims that the payroll is headed by Mario Negri and the PRO supports Luis Juez, who despite having two more years in Deputies made an agreement with the macrismo to return to the upper house.
Attention is focused on this scenario because in the radical unconscious he still remembers what happened in 2019 when Together for Change went with two lists and lost the capital's quartermaster.
Internal tensions did not allow us to achieve unity in San Luis, La Rioja and Neuquén, where the forecasts are not encouraging for the opposition.
The Frente de Todos, which has 119 deputies and renews 51 seats in this election, has on its shoulders the questions about the handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but that does not invalidate the opposition's concern that the ruling party will achieve the dream of the own majority in Congress.
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