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Leonardo Nardini: 'People are not thinking about the choice but about health or the economy'

2021-08-27T20:59:35.532Z


The Malvinas mayor analyzes the "abnormal campaign" that all Peronism in the Conurbano is talking about. The impact of the pandemic, the influence of Senator Luis Vivona and what he thinks of the candidacy of Jesús Cariglino outside the district.


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Magalí Rodríguez Farías

08/27/2021 12:36

  • Clarín.com

  • Zonal

Updated 08/27/2021 12:36 PM

Since Malvinas Argentinas ruled in December 2015, when he displaced the Peronist leader Jesús Cariglino,

Leonardo Nardini

has escaped massive acts and has felt more comfortable in "hand in hand" with few neighbors.

It is there that he can display his verbiage and seduce a large part of the electorate that follows the Frente de Todos.

Today, through pandemic, the "abnormal campaign" of which the PJ del Conurbano speaks seems to sit well with him.

"People are not thinking about the election," he

tells

Clarín

in his office in the imposing Malvinas Municipal Palace. And with his rhetoric he seeks to synthesize the mixture of the Peronist front that won the elections in 2019. Nardini brings out the flags of the culture and ecology to reach young people, defends La Cámpora without looking bad with the "old mayors" and swears that he was asking for an alliance with

Sergio Massa

when Kirchnerism looked at him with contempt.

"The neighbors," Nardini continues, "have in mind other things that are much more important: the health of a relative, a neighbor, the economy or the job. It is clearly there. She is not desperate to say, 'Well, who am I going to go to? vote?'".

In his office in Malvinas Argentinas, Leo Nardini spoke about the campaign and the electoral assembly of the Frente de Todos.

Photo: Guillermo Rodriguez Adami.

Nardini spends his days touring neighborhoods with Sol Jiménez Coronel, a 32-year-old candidate who is shaping up for the succession in 2023. But he also admits the importance in his management of

Luis Vivona

, senator and main candidate for the Buenos Aires legislature, historical nemesis of Cariglino and political godfather of the current communal chief.

-How much does Vivona weigh on the management?

-He is the person who gave me the opportunity and knew how to interpret what society wanted.

Today for me support is very important, and that bridge that it makes with leaders with much more experience who perhaps did not agree with me or did not know me.


Senator Luis Vivona, who opened the way for Nardini to the quartermaster and today influences the decision-making of the Municipality.

-And how do you see Sol Jiménez Coronel for 2023?

-We are in the suburbs, where there are a lot of needs, and it is a challenge to set a policy agenda that a minority asks for.

Sol is in charge of installing community gardens, recovering spaces and talking about healthy eating.

Complementary to that, also gender policies.

-¿Notás a generation gap?

-On the contrary.

We have many young people, like Sol and other colleagues, as well as our Secretary of the Treasury, who is 70 years old and has an impressive experience.

And that mix that we generate is what Luis Vivona synthesizes, and what he truly contributes.

Nardini Along with Sol Jiménez Coronel, his candidate for first councilor and dolphin for the succession in 2023.

Like almost all of 

Greater Buenos Aires

, in Malvinas the Frente de Todos achieved a unique list for the PASO.

Nardini speaks as a political analyst.

It looks good with everyone, but he gets a badge for having asked for the unit with the Renovation Front before 2019.

“In general, in the municipalities where we do not have mayors, the different expressions were allowed to settle their differences, with the sole premise that there should be no aggressions between the candidates.

And in other municipalities there was a synthesis.

Many times the old mayors are stigmatized, and they are not all the same, and so are the companions of the Cámpora

", says Nardini.

-And how do you live with massismo, so close to Malena Galmarini?

(He is ad honorem vice president of AySA, a state company chaired by Sergio Massa's wife)

-In a note that I also made with Clarín, in 2017, I said that the 54% that Cristina had lost in 2011 had to be recovered and Massa had to be inside. Well, I have had a lot of criticism. Working with Malena and the entire board of directors is very rewarding. Before it was said that Malvinas was the Capital of Health and we had 8% accessibility to sewers and 12% to running water.

Nardini also takes the opportunity to show his management.

It emphasizes the asphalt, the sports centers and the culture in the squares, but announces a project that it takes as a pending account.

"We are doing a work of more than 700 million pesos that will provide a solution to more than 50 thousand residents who will have running water. It comes from Tigre, which is the main collector and will go from Grand Bourg. In addition to different pumping wells with tenders are underway.

Nardini, Sergio Massa and the Minister of Transport Guerrera in the announcement of a work.

-You say that La Cámpora is stigmatized.

How do you see the advance of influence in historically Peronist districts?

-Of Máximo they have said atrocities and you see today a Máximo president of the block of Deputies of the Frente de Todos with whom many, and the opposition as well, boast of generating instances of dialogue to resolve or draft any law that has to do with something that benefits the vast majority.

- Were you afraid that the Malvinas would explode with the pandemic, because of the large hospitals it has?

-We watched with delay everything that came from Asia and Europe, and yes, one was afraid.

But knowing that Malvinas is recognized by the public health and municipal system, that everything comes here, and with the predictions that we had from the opposition, today we also highlight the role of the mayors, of all, no matter from what political space .


-Jesús Cariglino is once again a candidate for Senator for Juntos.

Already out of Malvinas politics?

-We can't guess the future.

But if you take the numbers into account, in 2015 I was elected mayor with 44% of the votes and the mayor who was in at that time got 42%.

In 2017 with Sol Jimenez we won by 19 points of difference.

Four years apart, we see each other again: I got 68% against 24-odd that the former mayor gets.

I think people saw and evaluated that we did something well.

-How did you take the controversy with Stolbizer?

-When they criticize you from your same space, sharing the same list, it is quite incoherent ... it was a surprise.

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Source: clarin

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