Apparently, María Eugenia Vidal will be saved in these 2023 elections for another opportunity later and, in addition to getting out of the presidential race as
Clarín
announced , she would not join the competition for the succession of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta either.
The
only chance
for Vidal to play in the Buenos Aires district would be if the polls show that Jorge Macri or Fernán Quirós
have no chance
of beating Martín Lousteau.
Something that wouldn't be happening.
Last Sunday, there was
a telephone contact between Vidal and Mauricio Macri
.
Among other issues, the deputy would have told him that she is not in his plans in the City.
And that in the next few hours, he will decline his presidential candidacy.
Mauricio Macri was shown with his cousin Jorge, in a sign for the candidacy in the City
"I would like to be president, but today is the time to build a team and a plan to end Kirchnerism
," Vidal assured in August 2022, when the campaign -and the fierce internal one- had not yet been launched.
At barely 49 years old, Vidal has time - and he knows it - to try his luck in the first magistracy in upcoming elections.
The reality is that now, he was not given the voting intention numbers to fight Larreta or Patricia Bullrich for the spot either.
"I do not see her compete in the City, unless Mauricio, Patricia and Horacio
ask her to
, "
they argue in the environment of the national deputy.
It is clear that it is difficult for the three PRO referents to ask him for it.
The leaders that make up his closest circle understand that today, Macri leans towards his cousin Jorge Macri.
Larreta wants to make Fernán Quirós grow, and for that reason he appointed a man of the highest confidence of his, the deputy and member of the Council of the Magistracy Alvaro González, as his campaign manager.
The Buenos Aires dispute is between the two.
Fernán Quirós with Deputy Alvaro González, a trusted leader of Rodríguez Larreta and his new campaign manager.
"Only if it becomes
difficult
for the PRO to retain the City, María Eugenia could take place"
, they admit in vidalismo.
Even in the larretism they slipped that in talks with those close to Vidal they saw his launch in the City as very complicated.
Nobody rules out that Vidal is summoned in a future national cabinet if Together for Change returns to power, either with Larreta or Bullrich.
At some point, bullrichism
ordered
the Bulrrich-Vidal formula to be measured, but it did not work as expected.
"Evidently, Argentine society is not yet ready for a completely feminine formula," says a leader of the space headed by the former Minister of Security.
While Vidal's relationship with Rodríguez Larreta has a long time.
In fact, the head of the Buenos Aires government usually boasts that he is the only one of all the PRO leaders who attended her first wedding, with Ramiro Tagliaferro, 25 years ago.
Gradually, the Buenos Aires grid is clearing up.
For now,
Jorge Macri and Fernández Quirós
will compete for the PRO candidacy;
Martín Lousteau
will do it for the UCR;
and
Ricardo López Murphy
for United Republicans.
No more surprises are foreseen.
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