In the bunker on Teniente Ibáñez street, Rolando Figueroa
(finally, the winner of the election for governor in Neuquén)
had not yet come out to speak, but from Buenos Aires they were already celebrating the result in this province.
Mauricio Macri, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich rose to victory on social networks, and simultaneously an
internal discussion broke out in the PRO due to the previous support and rejection
of the elected governor.
After a while, based on the sharp words of Elisa Carrió, the dispute would extend to Together for Change.
The impact of the historic defeat of the MPN, for the first time in an election for executive positions since its founding in 1961, was followed by a bid among the main referents of the PRO for the greater or lesser incidence
in
the commitment to Figueroa.
From the macrismo they maintained that the former president was the first to support him, after meetings in Villa La Angostura.
That decision generated resistance, mainly from Bullrich, due to the division of Together for Change.
Without appearing in the preview with Figueroa, who sought to provincialize the election, Rodríguez Larreta
supported him in the campaign and this Sunday he transmitted that Macri had taken away his endorsement
for the votes -in line with the Frente de Todos- of the deputy in Congress.
And he also targeted Bullrich.
“
Patricia, you did not support the PRO and your references were functional to those who govern Neuquén 60 years ago.
Facts say more than words”, Leticia Esteves -candidate for provincial deputy for the PRO collector and aligned with Rodríguez Larreta- crossed the celebration by networks of the former Minister of Security.
In turn, on Bullrich's side, Hernán Lombardi and Maximiliano Guerra came out to answer him.
Then the discussion was enhanced with the intervention of Carrió.
“
Together for Change lost.
They dismembered him.
Everything is closely linked to Vaca Muerta.
The election of the governor enables business for everyone”, shot the leader of the Civic Coalition in LN+.
In the campaign she had supported Pablo Cervi, who maintained the seal of the opposition coalition and came fifth with 3.75%.
“I want to achieve the unity of Together for Change.
Macri does not want to be in Together for Change, he wants to be with (Javier) Milei
, ”warned Carrió, which opened another controversy.
“
Traitors and dragged.
These are the Argentine caste politicians.
They hung on Macri for 20 years to steal charges and now they spit on him.
Nothing good can come out of a traitor," replied the libertarian.
Sergio Massa also came out to congratulate Figueroa, with photos on his social networks, and included the victory of Alberto Weretilneck in Río Negro:
"Two great friends."
In this way, the Minister of Economy got into the dispute over the proximity of the winner.
From the Civic Coalition they took up these two issues to sustain the discussion.
Maximliano Ferraro described Milei as
"violent, vulgar and upstart"
, and entrusted him with the purpose of "breaking" Together for Change.
He also referred to the greetings of Massa and the Evita Movement -its leaders were part of one of the Figueroa collectors- to criticize the PRO's position in this province.
"We are the change or we are nothing
," Ferraro ironized with Macri's slogan.
In private, the former president linked Carrió and the radicalism referenced in Martín Lousteau with a defeat result in Neuquén due to the low percentage of Cervi, deputy of Evolución.
"I haven't touched the phone since the afternoon"
, Figueroa had avoided answering who called him from Buenos Aires once the victory was confirmed.
"From Neuquén and Río Negro we send a message to politics:
the cracks do a lot of damage
," he began his speech late Sunday night, in line with what he had proposed in the campaign, with the strategy of provincializing the election with an armed of nine collectors in which the PRO, radicals, Peronists, socialists, the Frente Grande and the Evita Movement converged.
The governor-elect decided not to give interviews on Monday morning.
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Elisa Carrió: "Macri does not want to be in Together for Change, he wants to be with Javier Milei"
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