In the midst of strong internal and concerned about the growth of Javier Milei, the main references of the PRO meet again this Monday afternoon, in the neighborhood of Palermo. It will be the third meeting in just over a week, with the presence of the poker of greater weight in the match: Mauricio Macri, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Patricia Bullrich and María Eugenia Vidal.
"I go on my way, I don't look at what others are doing. The important thing is the role that we occupy," Bullrich told the press before the meeting started, when she was consulted precisely by Milei.
The former minister was also consulted about the accusation of Cristina Kirchner, who involved her in the plot of the attack against her. Specifically, for the alleged statement a secretary of Deputy Gerardo Milman, close to Bullrich, who would have assured that they deleted information from their phones because it would compromise them with the case. "I have no idea what they're talking about. All that is an invention. I'm surprised by creativity," Bullrich said.
As in the previous meetings, which also had a quartet of leaders who supported the main ones (Fernando de Andreis, Diego Santilli, Federico Angelini and Cristian Ritondo), an attempt will be made to advance in the assembly for the two districts that have blocked the internal PRO: the City and the Province of Buenos Aires.
There, differentiated strategies appear. While in CABA, at least in the public discourse, there is agreement that there is only one candidate of the PRO to face the radical Martín Lousteau (and most likely the Republican Ricardo López Murphy); In Buenos Aires territory, no agreement is reached.
In the largest district in the country (40% of the national votes) Larreta basically proposes that each presidential candidate carry his candidate for governor. He says it thinking about the bid against Bullrich, since the head of government has Santilli as an ally, the pre-candidate who best measures for the Province.
The former Minister of Security, on the other hand, oscillates between three possibilities (Néstor Grindetti, Javier Iguacel and Joaquín de la Torre), none very blockbuster for the moment, while she waits for what Ritondo, who was left without national reference after the Vidal shift, will do.
In Province there is an extra element that generates noise: the possible splitting. So far, Governor Axel Kicillof has only called the Buenos Aires primaries, coinciding with the national ones, for August 13. But the chance to separate the general election was saved, even using the same methodology as the City: the turnout.
What is this? Voting on the same day, but with different ballot boxes and ballots, which neutralizes the drag of the presidential candidate. Open debate.
The Espert factor and PRO leadership
Also in the PRO another discussion was pending and it is the incorporation to the alliance of José Luis Espert. The deputy of La Libertad Avanza already has the wink of Larreta, Gerardo Morales (UCR) and Elisa Carrió (Civic Coalition), but the OK of the other main partners of the PRO remains.
Bullrich doubts the invitation: he fears that Larreta wants to put him in the presidential intern to get votes not only from Milei (another libertarian) but also from her. At the end of last year, Espert had run for governor, but now clarified that if he joins he can review the strategy.
Macri also let his displeasure (especially with Larreta) transcend because he believes that some leaders are not defending the leadership that, according to the former president, the PRO should have in Together for Change.
He is particularly bothered by the agreements of the head of government with Morales and Martin Lousteau. This Sunday, in Jujuy, there was a scene that exasperated the macristas of black palate. It was when the radical governor, with Larreta at his side, presented him to Lousteau as the possible "successor of the head of government."
It is almost ruled out that an agreement on the City will be reached today, despite the coincidence of the "single candidate". Former President Macri supports his cousin and Buenos Aires official Jorge, while Larreta, this Monday, motorized a photo of his entire Cabinet supporting another minister: the one of health, Fernán Quirós.
Is the way out that both get off and finally Vidal is the yellow representative in the City? For now the operation is cold. But it still beats.
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