In the midst of the agitated internal opposition in the face of the PASO, the Minister of Health and candidate for Buenos Aires head of the PRO Government,
Fernán Quirós, warned that "of course" he will not get out of the electoral dispute
, despite the fact that Horacio Rodríguez Larreta insisted that the space should have a single candidate for the Juntos por el Cambio primary elections.
Given the specific question about whether he will lower his candidacy, Quirós responded emphatically: "No, of course not. I already communicated it in November and since November I have been working on this proposal."
"The important thing is to be clear with society with what one comes to propose, the values and principles that one defends.
It is an issue that society has to resolve, that is how democracies work
," Quirós pointed out regarding the candidate selection mechanism.
In statements to radio
Miter
, the Buenos Aires official specified: "We have a Front with a group of parties and up to now each of the parties has a candidate and
the PRO still has three candidates."
"That we communicate the proposals to society and when we reach the PASO we have
some mechanism among the three to choose the person with the best conditions
and most recognized to represent the PRO within the PASO within Together for Change", raised the candidate to succeed Rodríguez Larreta.
The current head of the City Government has been expressing his desire for his political party to have a single candidate in the district, but he also gave signs of support for Fernán Quirós.
The Buenos Aires Minister of Health is currently the strongest alternative, although Soledad Acuña is also running, along with Jorge Macri, the candidate supported by his cousin Mauricio and also Patricia Bullrich, the president of the PRO, on leave.
In addition, radical senator Martín Lousteau will compete in the Juntos por el Cambio internship;
the national deputy Ricardo López Murphy through the space Republicanos Unidos;
and legislator Graciela Ocaña with her Public Trust party.
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta with Fernán Quirós in a campaign activity in Abasto.
Asked about Mauricio Macri's desire that his cousin be the only candidate to present the PRO in the City PASO, Quirós argued: "What he expressed is that he has a predilection and that he believes that the best candidate for the PRO is his cousin Jorge That is what he expressed and he has every right to have a person who he considers to be the best representation of the PRO."
"Macri always talked about competition and the idea that we get to PASO with an elected candidate, which is more or less the same as what I am saying," he added.
Regarding the possibility that in the PASO formulas made up of leaders of radicalism and the PRO compete, he explained: "As a power, there can be. I have an ordering principle of why I am doing what I am doing and that is that the PRO, with the government of Mauricio and later with Horacio, has built a change in the City that is valued by the majority of porteños".
"The change has been due to the leadership and also to the technical teams, who have been working for years, training and preparing to govern. The
PRO has the best technical teams
, the best plans, the best proposals and
has shown that it is capable of governing" , he highlighted.
In this context, he considered it important that "the PRO has its best candidate so that the Buenos Aires citizen has the option of continuing to choose what they have with the improvements that are needed."
In addition, he called for
"working so that the PRO has a strong candidate,
the strongest possible, and the people have the opportunity to elect him."
Fernán Quirós called to "work so that the PRO has a strong candidate" in the City.
"If that means that someone later accompanies a PRO candidate after the STEP, because they do not need to carry a complete formula, it will be a later dialogue," he completed.
Lastly, he defended Rodríguez Larreta's decision to establish "concurrent" elections in the City of Buenos Aires.
"You have to comply with the rules and the laws. We have to win the elections because the people choose us, not because we are doing some gibberish on some technical issue," he explained.
"I am fully confident that society recognizes and values what the PRO has done in the City, it recognizes the City as a well-governed city, now it has new demands that it considers have not yet been properly resolved or are new," concluded.
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