Eight days after the closing of the lists in Mendoza, the tension in Juntos por el Cambio grows to the point that the space is heading towards a rupture in the province.
Omar de Marchi
announced that he will be
a candidate for governor
, without confirming whether he will do so within the front with radicalism or outside, although the PRO
envisions a break and is preparing to intervene in the party
in the district, even though there is time left to negotiate until Wednesday the 12th.
"There is only one option, there is only one
irreversible decision
: I will be a candidate for governor of the province of Mendoza," De Marchi tweeted on Tuesday afternoon.
The PRO deputy confirmed in this way that he will wrestle with Alfredo Cornejo, the former radical governor who will seek to return to the highest seat in the district and succeed his co-religionist Rodolfo Suárez.
In that province there is PASO, but De Marchi did not communicate if he will compete within the Cambia Mendoza front or if he will do so separately with another label, such as that of the Democratic Party, and in that case with the libertarians as allies.
The day before, in a meeting with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, he had told him that he was
more inclined not to participate in the
coalition primaries.
“
In the PASO they throw the apparatus at you
, and what they want is to have the whole stage leveled for the generals, because Kirchnerism has no weight.
This is how they are destroying the province," De Marchi used as one of the arguments, according to PRO sources.
Given this scenario, Rodríguez Larreta
decided to withdraw his support
and instructed Eduardo Macchiavelli, Buenos Aires Secretary of Federal Projection and one of the shipowners in the provinces, to get involved in the negotiations and disavow the deputy.
"Given De Marchi's unilateral decision to break Cambia Mendoza, Macchiavelli promised to work to guarantee the integration of the PRO into the provincial front
," they spread from the Buenos Aires administration headquarters on Uspallata street.
"It is one of the four provinces governed by Juntos por el Cambio, which also has an established STEP mechanism and launches the Single Ballot system in this election," they added by way of questioning.
From noon the national referents of the PRO began to analyze the
intervention of the Mendoza PRO
to keep it in space with the UCR.
"It's a possibility," said a Buenos Aires official.
In the afternoon, they resolved with Patricia Bullrich -president of the party- to advance with Senator Humberto Schiavoni.
In addition to the electoral dispute, as an argument for Schiavoni to remain in charge of the Mendoza PRO, they will argue that the authorities' mandate expired in March.
De Marchi rejects the intervention and
if the discussion escalates it will probably end up in court
.
The deputy had aligned himself with Rodríguez Larreta almost a year ago, as one of the articulators of the political armed groups in the districts, with an eye on the presidential project of the mayor of Buenos Aires.
If the break is confirmed, he will leave that function as confirmed by a City official on the subject: “He is making a decision against Horacio's vocation to guarantee unity, especially in the districts that we govern.
If that happens, he doesn't work with us anymore
. "
Until this week, Bullrich attacked De Marchi's resistance to aligning himself within the Cambia Mendoza front and Rodríguez Larreta endorsed the deputy with the argument that there was still time for the closing of the lists.
The conflict had even crept into meetings of the national table and also into PRO summits.
Alfredo Cornejo with Patricia Bullrich.
The radical will seek to govern Mendoza again. Photo José Gutiérrez/Los Andes.
Bullrich attributed the support of the head of government to De Marchi to a
strategy to push Cornejo
, an ally of the former Minister of Security, to compete in the province.
But there was no resolution either once the radical senator confirmed that he will dispute Suárez's succession.
From Rodríguez Larreta's determination, now both rivals for the presidential candidacy were in this case with coincident positions.
"There is no break in Cambia Mendoza, because the PRO is going to remain at the forefront.
Let De Marchi do what he wants
," they sought from the Bullrich sector to circumscribe the conflict to the removal of the deputy, although the party dispute remains to be resolved.
In turn, the radicals were confident that De Marchi's movement would not imply a risk in the electoral perspective for the space led by Cornejo.
"No way.
We already knew that he was going to do this, but he leaves alone.
The PRO is not taken outside ”, they agreed in the environment of the former governor.
“We will announce the final decision in a few days.
We are more inclined to go outside
, at this point we have it almost defined”, they estimated at nightfall near De Marchi, with the break practically confirmed although with a door ajar to negotiate until the closing of lists.
"
We no longer believe that there is room for an agreement, although he has a little more time to come to his senses
," the larretistas in charge of the conflict in the province slipped.
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