Martin Bravo
08/09/2021 18:18
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/09/2021 18:18
"I was eager to come
.
"
Mauricio Macri wanted to return to Buenos Aires and took the first flight he could, an Iberia flight from Madrid.
The leaders with frequent contact described him as
"hyperactive"
in the detailed follow-up of the electoral process and the inmates of Juntos por el Cambio, with some
billing
to Horacio Rodríguez Larreta due to the noise of the primary school between Diego Santilli and Facundo Manes in the Buenos Aires province.
Until a few weeks ago, the former president had planned to participate in the campaign in some districts, although he will take the week of isolation to think better of it.
Macri planned to visit and support candidates in Córdoba, Mendoza, Santa Fe, Corrientes and the interior of Buenos Aires, among other places.
In those territories he maintained
levels of acceptance, without a negative image as high as in the suburbs, the north and the south of the country. “There are calls from the 24 provinces.
Some may tell you that they are looking for the famous middle third, but for the PASSES, Mauricio's vote is decisive
, "
one of the closest PRO referents
told
Clarín
, and he put his degree of exposure on hold in the coming weeks:"
You are going to analyze it well, you have to be careful with the internal ones
. He seeks to guarantee the unity of Together for Change and to put himself above disputes ”.
María Eugenia Vidal has already made it known that she will seek to accompany her in activities in the City, to attract the hard vote of the PRO. The officials and candidates of the Frente de Todos try to put
him permanently in
the public discussion ring. Macri will define his movements based on two axes, according to the members of the PRO's hard wing:
not to increase tensions in space or to advance the 2023 discussion
, something that has already happened. Rodríguez Larreta prevailed in the definition of the candidacies in the province of Buenos Aires and in the City, a bet in line with his presidential project.
These two postulates include a
questioning by Macri to the head of government
. The former president had promoted Vidal's application in Buenos Aires territory, and with the strong crosses a few days ago he took the opportunity to mark the risk of the Buenos Aires mayor's strategy. “It is clear that Manes is a candidate because it was not María Eugenia, the radicals themselves say so. Now that's it, he's going to help, but
the main responsibility for it to go well is Horacio ”
, transmitted a leader who maintained daily contact during Macri's stay in Switzerland, Italy and Spain.
Even with the dispute over leadership and differences over strategy, the founder of PRO
spoke with Rodríguez Larreta
from abroad. Beyond the presentation of the book in Madrid and activities as head of the FIFA Foundation, and between vacations with his wife Juliana Awada and his daughter Antonia, he also participated virtually in meetings of the national table and spoke with other close leaders such as Patricia Bullrich, Fernando De Andreis, Miguel Pichetto and Hernán Lombardi, and with some radicals, including Manes.
“Mauricio says that you should not criticize anyone: it must be said that their list is good and ours is better.
The obsession is to win in November
, the most important election since 1983 ”, Lombardi advanced Macri's position on the internal and his attempt to be oblivious to the disputes. The former head of the public media area was one of the few who managed to enter the lists -seventh in the one headed by Santilli- at the request of the former president, with his secretary Darío Nieto for Buenos Aires legislator and Fernando Iglesias -four in the City- , in the latter case shared with Bullrich.
The "obsession" for the generals is focused on
"stopping Cristina Kirchner"
and preventing the Frente de Todos from adding deputies to allow it to control the lower house and thus advance initiatives such as the reform of the Procurement Law. In addition to
the Argentine Mail case, the one that worried him most about
the possible legal consequences for his children, former Socma shareholders, Macri followed the accusation from Europe for the shipment of ammunition and repressive material to Bolivia in November 2019, days later Evo Morales was forced to leave power.
His lawyer Pablo Lanusse tried unsuccessfully to stop the internal investigation of the Gendarmerie and the former president
celebrated the European Union's rejection
of Bolivia's accusations to the bloc of having "conspired" to prepare the coup. Even so close to him they sought to relativize their concern for the causes, by marking that he did not decide to be a candidate to get privileges.
