It can be read in two ways.
One: that
Elisa Carrió
came out to support the decision of the head of the Buenos Aires government
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
to call concurrent elections in the City of Buenos Aires with a single electronic ballot amid the resistance of the PRO, his party, which was plunged into a crisis No background, after the announcement.
The other:
that Elisa Carrió decided to confront Mauricio Macri
for what he interpreted as an excessive reaction from the former president against the mayor.
The concrete thing is that after the public support of her party, the Civic Coalition, for Larreta's decision, now it was Lilita herself who broke the silence around the issue that has in suspense for Together for Change, whose epicenter is about these hours in the City where the PRO has governed for 16 years.
"Compliance with the law is an obligation. From JxC we have been
fighting for the single ticket for years, I don't see why we are arguing,
" Carrió complained, in a tour of Neuquén, supporting the call for elections of the head of government, made official this Wednesday in Buenos Aires Official Gazette.
And he directly targeted those who raised their voices against the use of the single ballot voting system, such as Macri, his cousin Jorge and María Eugenia Vidal, three PRO heavyweights who described the migration to electronic voting as an unnecessary expense.
"What do those who do not want the single ticket now propose? Are
they proposing a country outside the law? Luckily the law was complied with
," said the former deputy of Together for Change, one of the architects of Cambiemos in 2015, together with Macri and the radical Ernesto Sanz.
Elisa Carrió in Neuquén together with the candidate for governor of Together for Change, Pablo Cervi.
Larreta's decision to split the election for Buenos Aires head of government through the single electronic ballot produced a political earthquake within the PRO.
Mauricio Macri said that he had "disappointed" him and set up a zoom with the main leaders of the party to criticize the mayor.
"The PRO and the JxC that we promised the Argentines is not this. There is no personal ambition that can be above our values and the team. We are the change or we are nothing", questioned María Eugenia Vidal, one of the first and most categorical criticism of Larreta's decision.
Jorge Macri, Minister of Government and candidate for the PRO to succeed Larreta, was just as harsh.
"This hurts people, it's a very complex system," he said.
"We have to choose the system that is as cheap as possible and as simple as possible for people to vote."
The most lapidary was Patricia Bullrich.
"Let's take care of people's money. This decision is a waste. We continue on the path of values. With me, these things will not happen," she said.
The rupture of JxC in Neuquén
Elisa Carrió in Neuquén.
Carrió spoke during a tour of Neuquén, where he traveled to support the candidate for governor of Juntos por el Cambio, Pablo Cervi, a UCR national deputy who is part of the Evolution bloc, who refers to the figure of Senator Martín Lousteau, precisely one of the pre-candidates for head of government in the Buenos Aires internal cambiemita.
The scenario chosen by Lilita to break the silence was not accidental: Neuquén is one of the provinces in which the opposition front broke up due to internal differences, in this particular case due to Mauricio Macri's support for Rolando Figueroa, a former Movimiento official. Popular Neuquino (MPN), who is going as a candidate for Community, a new party that he put together to compete and that brings together from the PRO to the Evita Movement under the slogan "neuquenizate".
The break within JxC in Neuquén was revealed by the Civic Coalition last January, through a message from Maximiliano Ferraro, president of Carrió's party.
"Shameful decision that some political actors have made in the province of Neuquén. Weakening JxC in order to satisfy their personal desires, going as a collector for a sector allied to Kirchnerism and ignoring what was resolved by the National Table makes it much more serious even ", Shooting.
"We call for the national authorities of @proargentina and @UCRNacional to take the corresponding precautions and thus avoid the weakening of Together for Change in Neuquén. Now it is understood why some did not want an alliance or rules of the game" , wrote on January 12.
Radicalism intervened, through its president Gerardo Morales, but in any case the armed opposition broke up.
A large part of the PRO leaders went with Figueroa and the situation was replicated at the national level, with spots by Macri, Larreta, Patricia Bullrich and Vidal in favor of the rival Juntos por el Cambio.
There were no cracks within the yellow party in support of Figueroa, despite the fact that Pablo Cervi's candidate for lieutenant governor, Jorge Taylor, is from the PRO.
In the provincial election, the party founded by Macri has a collecting list, 64, which is attached to the exMPN ballot.
What's more, Macri met at the beginning of April in Villa La Angostura with several candidates who campaign with Figueroa and away from JxC.
“I am very happy to be able to accompany this list of JvC, although we know that it is a difficult choice.
It is in difficult times when you have to be there, although some have not come to support", he launched. "You have to accompany JxC in Neuquén, because it is important to be able to maintain unity. We are all here: the UCR is represented with Pablo, that he is an exceptional candidate, a great businessman with the head that the province needs to govern the future; also the PRO and the Civic Coalition", he said.
In this sense, he added that "it would be good to have a JxC government in Neuquén, that's why I am here, supporting unity, while others wanted division," he said, pointing to Macri without naming him.
With his words, in addition to sending a message at the national level, Carrió reaffirmed that the only representatives of Together for Change are Cervi, Taylor and Valeria Toledo, a reference to the CC-ARI, who is a candidate for mayor of the capital .
"This is JvC, don't believe in cheating
," she said in a video days ago.
He now did it in person, days before the Neuquén vote on Sunday for the successor to Omar Gutiérrez, who will nominate his current vice-president Marcos Koopmann as his dolphin.
