Eduardo Paladini
08/03/2021 10:31
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/03/2021 10:31
First he said
"liar"
. Later,
"mythomaniac"
. Then it went
"messianic"
. And finally he called it
"pathological egocentric
.
"
Surely there were more. But roughly, that he escalated the tone of public criticism and deprived of
Elisa Carrió
to
Facundo Manes
, the radical neuroscientist who heads one of the two lists
together for change
in the province of Buenos Aires. The climax of the attack came days ago, when directly the leader of the Civic Coalition announced that she would report him in court for this alleged compulsion not to tell the truth.
Beyond the noisy profile that Carrió always had and his predisposition to take many of his political fights to court,
the advance against Manes attracted attention
.
Report him for a lie?
File a civil lawsuit for saying that she had offered to be his vice presidential nominee in 2015, something the leader denies?
"Why is Carrió so angry with Manes?" Clarín asked different political actors who are closely following the fight.
A source who lives politically with the former deputy responds first.
"She never liked Manes very much, she said it publicly. This idea of coming and wanting to be president in two years ... But what
made her mad
, after the talks they had, first by phone and then personally, when he He told him that he would be a candidate, it
was about the supposed offer to be vice
president
. Toty has just denied it, who is the other one who was in that meeting. "
Facundo Manes, the candidate neuroscientist for the UCR in Province, in an interview with Clarín.
Photo: Rafael Mario Quinteros.
"Toty" is
Héctor Flores
, the social leader who finally accompanied Carrió in the formula, in the 2015 presidential internship of Cambiemos that Mauricio Macri would win. In a radio interview this week, he recalled: "At the time I had a meeting with the brother, Gastón Manes, in which he had told me about the importance of Facundo talking with Lilita; during that meeting
I was with both of them at all times. and there was no offer for the vice presidency
. "
Respect the lawsuit for the alleged lie, for now it is a threat.
"I spoke with the lawyers and he
still did not appear
. We have to see if after the meeting (this Monday) that they are having with the idea of lowering the tone, it is maintained. Anyway, it would be a complaint to express the anger , something civil. It would end there. But we will see, "added a collaborator of Carrió.
The radical theory: did she want to be the candidate?
Close to the radical neuroscientist they are trying to lower the controversy with Carrió.
At least in the first person.
In any case, the answers come from partisan referents like
Gerardo Morales
.
The Jujuy governor, with presidential ambitions,
went higher and accused Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
of being behind the attacks on the Buenos Aires candidate.
The head of Government is another of those who moves thinking about 2023.
"
Facundo does not identify anything specific so that there is so much anger,
"
a source who works in the Manes campaign
responded to
Clarín
.
"Perhaps with how controlling Carrió is, he did not like his emergence as a candidate," he later speculated.
Also by way of speculation, a leader of radicalism who has known the leader of the Civic Coalition for years, assured this newspaper that there may be a subject of jealousy, almost spite: "Remember that she had said that she would put her body to be a candidate in Province and it was already being discussed what place Santilli would have. All that, with the candidacy of Manes, was over ".
Diego Santilli, with Martiniano Molina and Graciela Ocaña in Quilmes.
Finally, the former deputy chief headed the Province.
Indeed, at the beginning of June, and} the journalist Santiago Fioriti told in Clarín that Carrió was determined to run: "
I tell you something: I am a candidate in the province of Buenos Aires and I am not going to be second to anyone.
We all have to be together , the PRO, the Civic Coalition and the radicals, but if I am going to definitively expose my health it is to lead, I cannot go third or fourth. That's right: I will go first and I will do it with everyone, "began that article, reproducing words from the former deputy.
What came next is known. The appearance of Manes disrupted the plans of larretismo in Province and
Carrió had to settle
(or is it what she was originally looking for?) With
two people very close to her occupying the third and fourth place
on Santilli's list: Juan Manuel López and Marcela Campagnoli. They are already deputies for the Civic Coalition and have a high chance of renewing their mandate.
