"My position is that we have to work to have a single PRO candidate."
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta ratified this Thursday what he had assured after Mauricio Macri lowered his candidacy and before his decision to call concurrent elections in the City, the same day as the national ones but with different systems.
However,
the bid between the head of government and the former president has been intensifying
in the bastion of space since 2007.
Rodríguez Larreta uttered that phrase at a press conference after an announcement to simplify procedures in the City.
Next to him was Jorge Macri
, backed by the former president in the fight for the highest seat in the Capital.
Until a few days ago it seemed that the way would be paved for the mayor of Vicente López -with a license- and current Buenos Aires minister.
Due to the lack of agreement between the main referents of the PRO, the tension and the negotiations will continue for a while longer.
In the chess game, Rodríguez Larreta moved another piece to support Fernán Quirós on the board:
he appointed Alvaro González, a trusted leader, as his campaign manager
.
The announcement worked as another sign that the Minister of Health will not lower his candidacy for the moment.
“The challenge is that the porteños know that Quirós is a candidate.
And let them decide.
He is already held in high esteem by porteños, reflected in his highly positive image.
We are going to work to give him volume and political density as a candidate
, ”González told
Clarín
.
Fernán Quirós with Deputy Alvaro González, a trusted leader of Rodríguez Larreta and his new campaign manager.
As this newspaper recounted, after the strong controversy that was generated from the announcement that in the City there will be a single electronic vote for Buenos Aires offices, which favors Martín Lousteau because the election will be unhooked from the presidential dispute, Rodríguez Larreta transmitted that Quirós and Soledad Acuña would continue as pre-candidates.
“It is not so clear that Jorge has more chances than Fernán.
Jorge measures a little better, but Fernán has the highest ceiling
”, they advanced close to the head of Government at that moment, while the criticism of Macri, Patricia Bullrich and María Eugenia Vidal of the concurrent elections in the City accumulated.
With the appointment of Alvaro González as campaign manager, Rodríguez Larreta ratifies that direction.
Quirós will have a greater presence in the media, social networks and tours of the neighborhoods, as they announced:
"We are going to occupy the spaces."
It will be
another reason for disagreement between
the head of government and the former president.
In Macri's environment, after he lowered his presidential candidacy, they estimated that the stage would be leveling out for the mayor of Vicente López.
For now the only one who gave up was Emmanuel Ferrario.
In turn, Vidal's name circulated again as a way out of the conflict in the City, although she denies it.
Mauricio Macri with his cousin Jorge and his partner, Belén Ludueña, in one of the shows of support for his candidacy in the City.
“
Jorge Macri is my candidate for head of government, definitely.
I will always choose a PRO candidate because he is my party, ”Bullrich emphasized this Thursday, in statements to Urbana Play.
“I am not going to say who has to get off or on.
No need, let's go to the field.
If there are more, it doesn't worry me
”, Jorge Macri was confident about the permanence of Quirós and Acuña in the electoral scenario.
In his environment they sought to relativize a possible damage in the event that they compete in the PASO, arguing that the Minister of Health, due to his profile, would also take away a portion of the votes from Lousteau.
“There are some who believe that people can be cheated and I think the opposite.
I am convinced that I beat Lousteau with people
, ”Jorge Macri told radio Miter.
The discussion about whether he meets the requirements to appear in the City triggered another controversy, based on a proposal by the Buenos Aires legislator Facundo del Gaiso, from the Civic Coalition.
“Lilita (Carrió) never raised a challenge, she called me to tell me that she was not behind that stupid operation.
The proposal comes more from the side of radicalism
, ”said the mayor of Vicente López about that controversy.
Carrió supports Quirós as a candidate.
“My opinion is that it can be presented.
If someone asks a question, in the end a judge will have to give an opinion," said Rodríguez Larreta on that point.
Will there be an agreement to unify a PRO applicant?
It will depend on an eventual agreement between the Buenos Aires head of government and Mauricio Macri.
“The idea is that we have a single candidate.
Today there is more.
Still missing.
The important thing is that Quirós never got off and does not get off, "they raised on the side of the mayor of the City.
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