One in a matter of hours and another perhaps in days, they will say that they will not compete for the position to which they aspired.
Soledad Acuña
, nominated until Tuesday for the City Government Headquarters, and
María Eugenia Vidal
, noted for the Presidency, will announce sooner rather than later that they will withdraw from the competition.
And both decisions will have a very strong impact on CABA.
"Sole is getting off, quite possibly today,"
two high-ranking sources from the space
confirmed to
Clarín .
They were referring, of course, to the Buenos Aires Minister of Education who, sponsored by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, was still running in the district.
There is a meeting of the official's environment scheduled for this noon and news is expected.
"María Eugenia will communicate shortly, possibly this week, the decision that many are waiting for," added a third source, with a bit more of an enigma, but with a sung ending: relegated in the polls, the former governor will no longer be the third element of the PRO for the presidential bid: only Larreta and Patricia Bullrich will remain.
The novelty regarding Vidal is that he no longer outright rules out a Buenos Aires candidacy, as his friend and no longer so ally Larreta once imagined. "Before he was a resounding no, now he is going to think about it. In that case, there should be no other PRO competitors in that dispute," they explained close to the deputy.
That adds fuel to a fight already unleashed with Jorge Macri, cousin of the former president and PRO candidate in the City.
"Even if Vidal is there, he is going to compete"
, they ratified close to the current Buenos Aires Minister of Government.
Doubt with Quirós and Macri (Mauricio)
And
Fernán Quirós, the city's Health Minister,
who was supposed to be Larreta's strongest card to dispute the district with the Macri?
This Tuesday, the official left open the possibility that it was Vidal and generated strong anger in his team and in the larretismo.
"There is a lot of fever with what he said. But
Fernán continues to be Horacio's bet
," they sought to support his candidacy near the head of government.
And they expanded: "It is true that María Eugenia was thought of for the City at some point, before, but today there is no closed agreement nor did Horacio ask her for it in the last meeting they had."
Close to Vidal they give credit to the version and add an interesting element
: "What María Eugenia does is going to be agreed with Mauricio. It was difficult for her to rebuild that relationship and today they are very much in tune."
I remember: in 2021, Macri wanted her for the Province and she agreed to Larreta's request and appeared in the City.
The Macri (Mauricio) factor triggers a question: could the former president ask his cousin to run so that Vidal is the sole candidate of the PRO?
For now, he does not know / does not answer.
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