A campaign poster in the middle of the highway shows a smiling
Patricia Bullrich
, looking to the side, with her fist raised and in front of a light background.
The image was not seen in Buenos Aires or Buenos Aires territory, but on
Mendoza soil
, where the president of the PRO moved as naturally as any of the leaders of the province that has governed radicalism since 2015.
"In Mendoza we join forces", reads the slogan that shows Bullrich at the forefront of an eventual presidential candidacy that for now she is promoting herself, but that after a
weekend full of political thread in the Harvest
the sensation was installed that she has a important number of adhesions from important actors of the UCR.
And that he had the luxury of leaving others out, who today are aligned with
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
, the other PRO benchmark that will seek the presidency in the PASO.
The photo with Governor Rodolfo Suárez, with whom he bets to be his successor,
Alfredo Cornejo
, plus other central actors of the UCR such as Rodrigo de Loredo from Cordoba, Carolina Losada from Santa Fe, Luis Naidenoff from Formosa, Gustavo Valdés from Corrientes and mainly, Facundo Manes from Buenos Aires, reflect that
Bullrich is consolidating a national army that strengthens his figure
, beyond the nods that the polls give him to that presidential adventure.
To the point that Emilio Monzó
, the former leader of Cambiemos, with Peronist roots but with an anti-crack profile that adds to "Pato" another profile of potential electorate , also appeared in that portrait
.
With Manes, launched as a candidate for president a year ago, they were also photographed in the afternoon, in
another direct message to Gerardo Morales
, the governor of Jujuy, who participated in the act of the Argentine Wine Corporation (Coviar) in which
Sergio Massa announced the creation of a "Malbec Dollar",
but who was seen with a separate agenda from the rest of his co-religionists.
The same thing happened with Martín Lousteau, to the point that neither of them attended the central act of the Harvest, on the outskirts of the capital
.
Almost aligned with Rodríguez Larreta, who was in Mendoza on Thursday and Friday, but returned before Saturday's meetings, to tour the convulsed Rosario and because he had to attend the wedding of one of his girlfriend's sisters, Milagros Maylin .
Bullrich and Cornejo, together, at the Harvest Festival. Photo: José Gutierrez / Los Andes
Nobody closes doors in the radical internship
Bullrich was present at the main Harvest ceremony, in tandem with Suárez and Cornejo, capturing the looks of cholulos who asked him for selfies, but also staying up late in a meeting with both, plus local second and third lines, with whom he had dinner.
The chat, relaxed, ended at three in the morning.
"If it had been Horacio, it was impossible to stay until that time, at six he has to go running," one of those present, a Chicana in between, joked to the head of the Buenos Aires government.
Just as Manes replicated an image of the meeting with Bullrich on social networks,
Morales chose to speak publicly
, seeking to lower the price of the good friends of a sector of radicalism with the former Minister of Security.
"
Don't let the foam confuse us
, we have to be united, focus on one direction, and we can win," said the man from Jujuy, accompanied at a breakfast by former Mendoza governor Julio Cobos and other local UCR leaders.
Sources from the current Mendoza government, when they talk about the national dynamics and how things can evolve until the elections, acknowledge that the photo with Bullrich is a message towards the internal, although not specifically against Rodríguez Larreta.
"
What we show is that Patricia is not alone
, that she has nothing more than a radicalized sector of the PRO that supports her, that she can consolidate a much more solid national armed force," Mendoza commented on the reading that should be given to the disseminated image, giving arguments for the support, but putting cold cloths, in the sense of not closing any door if the panorama changes between now and June.
After Bullrich's photo with radicals, Morales countered with an image with former governor Julio Cobos.
Crossed formulas, but putting Vice
In the radicalism closest to Bullrich there is
a coincidence in advancing with crossed formulas in the next elections
, especially in the presidential one.
However, despite not saying so publicly, they acknowledge that the predominance of Bullrich and Rodríguez Larreta in the polls, and even in the event that Mauricio Macri decides to play for a "second term", leaves most of the radical candidates as potential running mates for a pure PRO leading the list.
In accordance with this line, even with the approaches to Bullrich and Macri in recent weeks,
Manes continues to think of a presidential candidacy
, but the one that most of his party colleagues seek to convince him that the risk of going to a STEP would be very great. and take a percentage similar to that obtained by Ernesto Sanz in 2015, with Macri as a rival.
"At that time there were three points, if now there are five or ten, it's not a business either. He can calmly be a good partner for Patricia in a formula," an important provincial leader of the UCR was heard to say.
No one runs the neurologist from the idea of him, for now.
"You have to interpret the sign of the times and I think it has to do with a change in the direction of the country's course in recent decades," he repeats in a sentence that, he understands, only leaves him as the outsider representative of Juntos for the Change to achieve that.
Morales is the other one who maintains his aspirations
of reaching the Casa Rosada and on March 15 he will formalize that intention with an act at the Gran Rex.
His party mates will accompany him, although a good part of them believe that the man from Jujuy recognizes that if in April he does not measure the ten points that he believes he can achieve, he will decide to bet on being Larreta's Vice.
In the dance of potential Bullrich running mates another has joined in recent days, young, with a renovating profile within the UCR and representative of the second province with the highest census in the country: Rodrigo de
Loredo
.
Although he has not yet dropped a candidacy for governor of Córdoba for which he is fighting internally with Luis Juez, and there are those who believe that if he runs for the mayor of the capital "he will surely win", more than one sees him as the ideal partner for Bullrich in the formula.
Another raised his hand and added
Carolina Losada
, who was close to the former Security Minister all weekend.
"Why can't we think of a pair of women as candidates? She asked those present at a breakfast that gave rise to imagining all possible scenarios
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