Jasmine Bullorini
07/27/2021 7:11 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/27/2021 7:11 PM
The dart that Facundo Manes threw against the Buenos Aires leadership of Juntos por el Cambio still echoes in the internal Buenos Aires.
While Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and his Buenos Aires candidate Diego Santilli avoided the confrontation, Elisa Carrió and María Eugenia Vidal pointed crudely against the neuroscientist.
In radicalism
they tone down the
episode.
"This man is blatantly lying
," Carrió lashed out.
"I have no doubts that
the tax money will not go to the electoral campaign,
" said Vidal and considered "a lack of respect" that type of "Chicanas".
The trigger was the phrase that Manes pronounced while calling for "a campaign as austere as possible" for the pandemic:
"I hope that the taxes of the porteños are not spent on the campaign,
" he said in an interview with La Nación.
The doctor himself sought to lose weight hours later.
"I said something minor, paraphrasing (Joaquín) De la Torre, which
is that this is a campaign by David against Goliath. Nothing more,
" he said in TN, alluding to the political apparatus of the PRO that supports Santilli compared to his armed forces. , which he considers lower, although the UCR is also behind.
In his environment they assure that it was not his intention to raise this dust, that it was a phrase in passing and that it was an expression of desire for there to be austerity in the campaign and
not an accusation
against the Buenos Aires executive.
Likewise, they recognize that the doctor is annoyed by a certain
"bombardment" that he receives on the networks,
although they will not delve into the discussion and bet on letting "the wave pass"
Larreta avoided confronting.
"
We do not enter into political Chicanas and less with people from our space.
For us the campaign is to tell people how we are going to solve the problems," he responded when asked about the issue at a City press conference.
From Hurlingham, Santilli - who already runs one tour per day in campaign mode - also dodged the bulge.
"Our adversary is Kirchnerism
. Let's not make the fat broth to Kirchnerism
. We have to have a healthy, proactive primary. And that people decide, because that's what it is about," he said.
His attitude is part of the PRO's strategy, which from the start insisted on an
internal "gentlemen's"
and to emphasize that the adversary is Kirchnerism.
"If it is not going to be very difficult the process of unification of lists after the STEP", they warn.
That does not mean, however, that other close actors are the ones who come out to respond.
This Tuesday it was two women of space weight who threw thick ammunition: Vidal and Carrió.
"We are always going to be accountable. It would be underestimating people to think that we are not going to do it. The people of Buenos Aires know what we did. In a year and a half so sad for all Argentines where we all have a family member or acquaintance who lost his life Because of the virus,
it seems disrespectful to enter that class of Chicanas
. I am not going to answer at that level, "replied the former Buenos Aires governor on Radio La Red.
Immediately afterwards, he countered and celebrated Manes's leap into politics.
"It is the result of an expansion. That someone new is incorporated into politics seems to me to be a good thing.
When many think to leave the country that someone with their ability wants to get involved, it is a good sign," he
said.
The leader of the Civic Coalition - who had already targeted Manes before he confirmed his candidacy by saying that he wanted to get to the Casa Rosada by "helicopter" - was the toughest and called the doctor a "mythomaniac".
"This man is lying
. In Together for Change we have a rule, which is not to lie to each other. I can have discussions with (Mauricio) Macri, with Horacio (Larreta), with (Mario) Negri, but we all have political friendship under one rule. , which is not to lie, "Rivadavia began pointing out in dialogue.
However, he later focused on denying that she had offered him to be her vice president in 2015, as Manes pointed out.
"He
lies blatantly
, I never went to offer a vice presidency to his house," he added.
Then he confirmed his criticism through an audio that he shared on his social networks, where he gave details of the talk he had with Manes in 2015: "The only thing I explained to him is
that he should try not to be the head of the old politics list, which finally happened
. "
Before that, the head of the PRO bloc in Deputies, Cristian Ritondo, had already left, who accused him of sowing "mistrust and doubts" and asked him not to fall into "the customs of the old politics."
