The traditional venue of the Argentine Tennis Club.
Located in Parque Tres de Febrero in Palermo, it was the venue for a new meeting between former President
Mauricio Macri
and the head of the Buenos Aires government,
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
.
The venue of the meeting remained strictly silent until this morning, since there was an agreement not to leak it to the press and that after it there could have been a portrait between the two, which they sought to avoid, at least in principle. .
It was the second meeting of the year between the two, after the visit of Rodríguez Larreta and his partner Milagros Maylin to the house of Cumelén, in La Angostura, on January 31.
On that occasion, more familiar, there were two photographs of the meeting, one of them in the park of the house, and another having dinner, with both couples, Maylin and Juliana Awada.
The former head of state and the presidential candidate spoke for more than an hour about different issues of current national politics but, fundamentally, they addressed the issue of succession to the Buenos Aires Head of Government, where both PRO leaders want it to continue in the hands of a leader of that force.
The meeting began at 10 a.m. this Friday, March 24.
The theme was the City of Buenos Aires, where
Macri wants his cousin Jorge to be the PRO candidate to try to retain the Buenos Aires municipality.
The discussion between these old political partners was bogged down because
Larreta endorsed the pre-candidacies of three people he trusted
for that position: the Buenos Aires Minister of Education,
Soledad Acuña
;
the president of the local Legislature,
Emmanuel Ferrario
;
and the doctor
Fernán Quirós
, the last to embark on that career.
The intention of Macri and Larreta is to advance as soon as possible with a "consensus candidate"
and the main possibilities lie with Jorge Macri, former mayor of Vicente López and today, Buenos Aires Government Minister.
But Larreta's fluid relationship with the radical Martín Lousteau complicates that resolution.
What's more: today's head of government showed up less than 24 hours ago with the radical economist, which further clouded the today's bond between Macri and Larreta.
Macri, beyond having a cordial relationship with the radical leader, mistrusts him because of his time with Kirchnerism, as Minister of Economy, in 2008, and because he understands that the City's candidate must be entirely "yellow", to guarantee PRO management continuity.
Publicly, Larreta has declared that he is going to support a party leader to succeed him, although he has not yet favored who, and at the same time he shows signs of being in good harmony with Lousteau, who asked that the current head of government promote "a candidate of Together for Change, not of the PRO".
Jorge Macri is, in this line, the candidate that generates the greatest consensus within the party, since he is supported by Patricia Bullrich, also presidential candidate and current head of the PRO, and by Mauricio Macri himself.
Rodríguez Larreta, even with points of disagreement in the last year from the approach of the former mayor of Vicente López to Bullrich, was the one who brought him to the City at the end of 2021, to be Minister of Government.
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