The family photo that was shared with Mauricio Macri, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Patricia Bullrich, María Eugenia Vidal, Diego Santilli, Cristian Ritondo, Federico Angelini and Fernando de Andreis, calmed the waters but did not eliminate the crack in the
PRO
.
The entry of José Luis Espert to Juntos por el Cambio with his Avanza Libertad space revitalized those
differences,
which may now be less high-sounding, but which persist.
Although Espert launched his candidacy to succeed Axel Kicillof in November, in February he had a meeting with JvC leaders to tell them that he was willing to compete at the national level.
And this Monday he assured Radio Miter that
"what I prefer is to be a candidate for president."
What the economist does intend is to enter the coalition on
equal terms
with the PRO, the UCR or the Coalition,
without any conditioning of candidacies
.
In other words, against everyone and in all districts.
After Macri's decline, everything goes through the dispute between Bullrich and Larreta.
Although Macri will continue to insist on managing the party's strings.
Elections 2023: Espert negotiates with Together for Change.
Both radicalism and the Civic Coalition agree
.
In the force of Elisa Carrió they are in favor of expanding JxC and they consider that then it should be the party of Espert that decides for which position it will compete.
From the environment of the head of the UCR, Gerardo Morales, they propose something similar.
“It is a decision that he must make.
As a candidate for president or governor, he will contribute to the necessary change in the country”
, he points out.
Even the Facundo Manes sector validates his incorporation and presidential candidacy because they see the need to enlarge the front.
Clearly the problem is in the PRO.
Although Patricia Bullrich agrees with his entry, which she also promoted in 2021 although it did not take place, in her environment there is a feeling that Larretism seeks to get votes from him by establishing him as a more right-wing presidential candidate.
Last Friday, at the meeting of the heads of the PRO in the house that Jorge Triaca has in San Isidro, Bullrich stated that he agreed with the entry
but not for president but for governor
.
And he alleged that during a one-on-one meeting with Espert, he expressed that intention to him.
“In the PRO it is not yet defined. We want it where it is more competitive than the province, the other thing, presidential, sounds strange ”
, they slide around them.
The other bullrichista argument is that a presidential campaign is not installed in 4 months.
"We have been here for three years
," they remember.
Another of the hawks' arguments is that
there are too many presidential candidates
with Larreta, Bullrich, Vidal, Morales, Manes, to add another.
In any case, there is speculation that Vidal could decline his candidacy and Morales go as Larreta's running mate.
So there would only be three.
Elisa Carrió and Gerardo Morales.
Online, in the macrismo they question where Espert contributes more and point out that at the national level it should only measure 1 point.
But
Macri would accept that Espert compete against Larreta and Bullrich
.
At the Sanisidrense summit, in a moment of doubt for the former president, Santilli reminded him that Macri himself intervened so that in 2019, after the PASO, Espert would support Rodríguez Larreta in the City, which by transitive nature -this occurs in CABA but not in the Province - by adding the Buenos Aires Head of Government, he also added the then president in his search for re-election.
For this reason, now Macri would not oppose.
At Triaca's house, Larreta, who was
supported by Vidal
, argued that in the province of Buenos Aires what prevails, being a broad list, are the extremes:
the candidate for President and mayor
.
Not to governor.
Therefore, he said, it would be more valuable for JxC that Espert be a national pre-candidate, both to fish for the right wing that Javier Milei hegemonizes throughout the country, and to also feed the list for Buenos Aires governor.
Would Espert steal votes from Bullrich?
Close to the ex-minister of Security they distrust.
In larretism they do numbers and consider that, if they did, he would not move the ammeter.
Now, Espert for the presidency, Ricardo López Murphy in Ciudad, and another right-wing leader among the pre-candidates for Buenos Aires governor, do they get votes from Milei?
"Hopefully, but posed like this it would be
a marginal effect
. "
And Cristina Kirchner's attempt to polarize with Milei further fuels the uncertain electoral scenario.
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