Mauricio Macri got out of a presidential candidacy for this year but
he never got out of the exercise of power
that he holds in the PRO and in anti-Kirchnerism, because he did not transfer it to anyone.
He will not run in the national election but he does intend to decide the fate of the City of Buenos Aires, which he does not want in the hands of radicalism -Martín Lousteau-, nor in other hands of someone from the PRO who is not his cousin , Jorge Macri.
Over the weekend, Larretismo confirmed the decision to apply the concurrent election, a sort of two ballot boxes on the day of the PASO in the City, one to elect the presidential candidate of Together for Change and another to vote for the JxC candidate to the Buenos Aires government headquarters.
Beyond the discussion about the electoral provision, it is a direct response from Larreta to Macri, which at the Uspallata headquarters is interpreted as
a sign of authority.
"I don't think Horacio would make that decision, it would be
going against what we have worked for years
, "
Macri confronted his successor, chosen by him to the detriment of Gabriela Michetti, in the Buenos Aires government through the media. 2015. These statements probably occurred when Larreta posed for a selfie in Spain, together with the leader of the Popular Party and head of the Community of Madrid, the combative Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
The meeting between Macri and Bullrich at the Fundación Libertad dinner.
The last time Larreta made
a decision contrary to what Macri was proposing
was in 2021, when he decided that Diego Santilli head the list of national deputies in the province and that María Eugenia Vidal would do the same in the City.
Macri wanted Vidal in the province -although the former governor refused- and Bullrich in the City.
The former president got angry and took a plane.
The confrontation between Macri and Larreta has escalated, especially
in second and third line officials and leaders
, under both.
“Mauricio has been grinding Horacio everywhere. In different meetings he says that he is going down in the polls, that Patricia has already passed him a long time ago ”
, assures a Larretista leader that he would prefer to see his boss confronting the former president.
From the macrismo they question that the head of the Buenos Aires government intends to
"raffle the City and give it to the radicals, favoring their agreement, instead of seeking a victory for his party, which is the PRO
".
The war is raised between macristas and larretistas
.
How far will it go?
In the environment of the Mayor of Buenos Aires, there are those who predict that
"they will end up destroying Together for Change."
The main argument used is
the Javier Milei factor
.
With the use of the single ticket for the City separated from the sheet ticket for national offices, Milei would be prevented from pulling votes for his candidate for Buenos Aires mayor, Ramiro Marra.
Different polls locate Milei with a voting intention of up to
25%
in the Buenos Aires district.
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Martín Lousteau, at the Usina del Arte.
On the one hand, they remind him of Macri, who claimed not to change the rules in an election year because it is a value that Juntos por el Cambio adhered to, which is a power of the head of government.
But from larretismo and radicalism they confront him that
in 2015
it was he who tried to convert into law, but Congress blocked it, the only ballot that he seeks to apply now for Buenos Aires charges.
And that when it was already approved in the Buenos Aires district, in 2019 Macri changed the rules and sought that both the province -Vidal- and Ciudad -Larreta- vote with the sheet list to reinforce his possible re-election.
“In 2015 we voted 6 times in the City because Macri wanted a great success for the presidential election. And in 2019 he unified so that Larreta's ballot would drive for his candidacy for President. What he says is all inconsistent”
, indicated a radical.
On the other side,
Patricia Bullrich, aligned with Macri
in her arguments, also considers that Larreta fails to comply with the idea of consensus and that in an election year the rules are not changed, beyond what is legal, because what it is about is of legitimacy.
In talks with her small table, Bullrich maintains that she does not understand "Larreta's play" because she is convinced that it
suits her
.
“In the heads-up of the presidential elections, without candidates for the City on the ballot, Larreta won quietly.
Also, how many radicals does Lousteau represent?
She doesn't understand.
You have to define who you support as a candidate for Buenos Aires head of government, Jorge Macri or Lousteau, and that's it”
, they say he thinks.
For the environment of the president of the PRO, it is an act of desperation by Larreta, whom they question because she handles the situation
"as a patron who decides who is a candidate and who is not, as if it were a corporation
. "
María Eugenia Vidal was another of the leaders who had already joined the position of Macri and Bullrich against the contestants.
The current deputy considers that
discussing the electoral system now is to keep distancing herself from the people
.
"Once again, politics looking at its navel"
is a phrase that she often uses.
She also assures that it is spending more and that the voting process will take more time.
Nobody knows
where the confrontation between macrismo and larretismo can culminate
.
Months ago, a Buenos Aires leader spoke with the former president so that he could advise her if she should enroll behind Bullrich or Larreta, since he was not going to be a candidate.
Macri asked him to wait, that in the future he could have more interference in Patricia's cabinet than in Horacio's.
Ergo, the harmony with Bullrich seems to be much greater than with his former chief of staff.
Is Macri looking to interfere with Larreta in the same way or has he definitely stopped considering him as his partner and disciple?
look also
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