The resignation of Mauricio Macri to compete in this year's elections generated
a storm in the PRO that will only begin to be ordered on June 24
, the day on which they will be obliged to present the lists of national, Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires candidates before the Electoral Court .
From that day on, the result of the internal fight that is exposed every week with different colors and shapes
will remain in the hands of the voters
, who will decide in the PASO the identity of the new head of the political party that emerged as the other face of Kirchnerism at the beginning of the century. .
In a message on social networks, María Eugenia Vidal confessed what the entire opposition knew: her candidacy for president could never leave the project category.
With her resignation, the fight for the leadership of the PRO
will have Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich as contenders
, the two who are keeping their presidential candidacies alive.
Without a referee who can order this dispute, the differences between Larreta and Bullrich
grow freely
.
The national disagreement moved to the two most important districts for the PRO: the province of Buenos Aires and the Federal Capital.
In the first of them, Larreta tries to impose his plan so that each presidential candidate of Together for Change
is attached to his own candidate
for the Buenos Aires governorship.
Until now, the head of government has not been able to get Bullrich, Macri or the radicals to agree with his idea.
In the City, the PRO
continues without unifying a pre-candidacy to face the radical Martín Lousteau in the PASO
.
Mauricio Macri has already said several times that he promotes a unique candidacy for Jorge Macri;
Rodríguez Larreta seeks to resist this move by supporting the nomination of Fernán Quirós and Patricia Bullrich pressures Jorge Macri to break ties with Larreta.
As a way to maintain that pressure, Bullrich flirts with the possibility of supporting Ricardo López Murphy for the position.
It is true that
Macri was never a leader who made decisions alone
and used to discuss each relevant step with an environment that alternately included his friend Nicolás Caputo, Marcos Peña, Emilio Monzó, Jaime Durán Barba and Rodríguez themselves. Larreta and Vidal.
But today there is no single boss and neither is there a small table with undisputed diners.
The dispute between Bullrich and Larreta, which could be similar to any other succession competition, stands out because it occurs in a context
with two complications
.
One is
the severity of the economic crisis
, which will leave the next government with almost no room to maneuver: the president who replaces Alberto Fernández will have
very little time and diminished social patience
to implement the reforms necessary for the country to once again aspire to prosperity. .
The other problem is that the PRO, and more broadly Together for Change,
lived its best moment at the peak of polarization
.
Today, that scenario no longer exists.
The PRO knows very well how to confront Kirchnerism or united Peronism, but
they can't stand up to Javier Milei
.
For many years they managed to take advantage of the invocations to novelty and the construction of a future in the face of failures or the aging of the ideas of Peronism, but now they have many problems dealing
with a disruptive, delusional and unknown discourse
for the general public. like the one repeated by libertarians.
Macri himself
thought for months about the possibility of embracing the dollarization proposal offered by Milei
-he came to consider it an inevitable solution in private conversations- and perhaps for this very reason the leaders of his party do not dare to firmly condemn that idea to
differentiate himself from the man who has been eating potential voters
for two years.
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