It was anticipated and it happened.
After Mauricio Macri
's displacement
from the presidential election, after a private talk with
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
,
the times were accelerated to define the candidacies
in the district that most interests the founder of the PRO:
the City
.
As Clarín
anticipated
, all (or many of) the roads lead to a nomination by Jorge Macri, cousin of the former president and who also has the support of
Patricia Bullrich
.
And the current Buenos Aires Minister of Government will have a meeting this Monday with another of the contenders for his space, his colleague from Education
Soledad Acuña
.
Is a formula born?
Clarín
was able to confirm the meeting in the team of both officials.
And from both sides they tried to tone down an early announcement.
"There is a meeting with Sole Acuña today, but
it is not an agreement for a formula
. It is a meeting between two GCBA Ministers and pre-candidates for Head of Government," they responded concisely near Jorge Macri.
They also ratified the meeting in the minister's team.
And they repeated that there would still be no definitions.
In Larreta's environment they added: "The time for a single PRO candidate to be defined will be by
the middle or end of April
. The method that will be used is that of polls and measurements."
The name of
Acuña had sounded at some point as a complement to the formula of the radical Martín Lousteau
, if the fight between Macri and Larreta broke out and they fought fully in the City.
Today that scenario seems unlikely.
The first one that the minister went to see to let her know that she would launch herself, more than a year ago, went to the former president.
More curiosities? As soon as the name of Fernán Quirós (the third of the PRO in question) was mentioned as a Buenos Aires candidate, Jorge Macri in private talks valued him as an "excellent running mate of mine." And since everyone has to do with everyone, this Monday there could also be a Quirós-Acuña photo, since both would share an act.
Unfolded, with two ballot boxes or separate ballots?
The other central debate, as this newspaper also announced a few days ago, refers to the date and method of voting for the election of the head of government.
It is a condition / requirement of Lousteau to his ally Larreta, who in parallel is negotiating a national agreement with a broad sector of the UCR, led by its president Gerardo Morales.
Lousteau has already let Larreta and Mauricio Macri
(with whom he met last week) know that he wants a power of the City's electoral code to be used and to vote differently from the national election.
If it is not on a different date (the times would hardly be given and there are doubts about the impact on the local electorate of making them go to vote up to six times), the alternative is that it be voted for in separate ballot boxes, even using the single ballot
for
the Buenos Aires election .
But that variant that Lousteau promotes, to avoid dragging the PRO presidential candidates if the ballots are stuck, has already been rejected by Macri, Patricia Bullrich and María Eugenia Vidal.
Larreta is missing, which is key in the negotiation.
One option that the PRO could offer Lousteau is that
all the ballots of the candidates for head of government go on all the ballots of the candidates for president of Together for Change
.
"We don't think so, how many ballots will there be? If there are three variants in each case, are we going to use nine ballots?", they rejected close to Lousteau.
In any case, they ruled out there taking the dispute to a judicial level.
Jorge Macri's home
Nor would it reach that area, the sources agree,
the controversy over the home of Jorge Macri
, mayor of Vicente López with a license and now a candidate in the City.
As Clarín announced this Sunday, with the umbrella of Elisa Carrió, the head of the block of the Legislature of the Civic Coalition, Facundo del Gaiso, had a strong conflict in an internal chat with Jorge Macri on this issue.
Del Gaiso
proposed that the former president 's cousin go to court to be certified if he can run for the City
.
Jorge Macri says that it is not necessary, but that he will still take "all the evidence" to the next Cabinet meeting.
The legislator from Carrió, by the way, this Monday got into the controversy about whether to vote all together or separately, endorsing the idea that there are two ballot boxes.
Another indication that the leader of the Civic Coalition will put
all the stones that she can to hinder the path of Jorge Macri
.
Her candidate in CABA is Quirós.
"If only Jorge remains, we do not rule out adding one of our candidates," they responded in the Carrió environment.
Another bitterness that Larreta must channel: Lilita is one of her main allies.
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