In his Whatsapp photo, the radical-elect governor of Jujuy, Carlos Sadir, has a campaign photo with Gerardo Morales and the slogan "Carlos Sadir. Governor - List 502".
Just hours after Sunday's overwhelming electoral victory, the current Minister of Finance of Jujuy went to work in his office on Monday, "like every day," he tells Clarín.
A low-profile cultist, Sadir became one of the central pieces with which the current governor Morales plans to prolong his territorial dominance and boost his presidential campaign, within Together for Change.
It is that as Morales could no longer go for his reelection, after two consecutive terms at the head of the governorship, now the radical leader from Jujuy was projected towards his national candidacy, allied to the head of the Buenos Aires Government Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
"Morales is a leader who came to turn Argentina around. He took the province out of a very complicated situation and the people ratified the course, with a very resounding victory," Sadir told Clarín.
The accountant Sadir is the right hand of Morales in the province of Jujuy, whom he accompanies as Minister of Finance and Finance since 2016, and previously with various functions in the city of San Salvador de Jujuy, throughout his 35-year political career.
Sadir graduated from the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the National University of Jujuy in 1983, shortly before the presidential triumph of Raúl Alfonsín. His figure motivated him to join the Radical Civic Union (UCR) and, shortly after, he approached Morales, current president of the National Committee of the UCR.
With Morales he has a close political and personal relationship, which allowed them to unseat the provincial Peronism in 2015, which governed the province uninterruptedly since the return of democracy, and negotiate with the different unions, to reduce to the minimum expression the social movements that were referenced in the Kirchnerist social leader Milagro Sala.
To achieve this, Morales allied in 2015 with Carlos Haquim, his current vice governor, then a reference of Sergio Massa's Renewal Front, with whom they went together in the two provincial elections.
As now they could not re-elect, Morales was the first candidate for conventional constituent for the reform of the provincial constitution that promotes his space of the Frente Cambia Jujuy, simultaneously with his national projection as a presidential pre-candidate of the radicalism; while Haquim led a collecting list, as the first candidate for provincial deputy of the front that supported Sadir as a candidate for governor.
In 2015, Morales-Haquim's ticket was on the two presidential ballots, Massa and Mauricio Macri. But in 2019 and now they split the elections, "to prioritize provincial issues in our campaign," Sadir told Clarín.
And he adds: "Here the Frente de Todos got very few votes in these last elections, because the uneasiness of the Argentines with the national government weighs heavily."
The Justicialist Front obtained 22.32% of the votes. "Therefore, those dissatisfied with the situation went to our front and to the left," with 49.51% and 12.81% of the votes, respectively, he said.
"They voted for us because the people agree with the peace and order we have in Jujuy, the works we have done and the productive profile of the province, with a balanced fiscal situation," the governor-elect adds to Clarín.
The accountant Sadir punctuates the mayorships that changed hands and is satisfied because the victory was "overwhelming", with almost 50% of the votes.
Of the 24 provincial deputies who were elected this Sunday, the governor-elect counts having achieved between 14 and 15, of which 13 are from the list in which the radicals and the PRO were allied, plus one or two from the list headed by Haquim.
"We also recovered some municipalities that we did not have, such as Tilcara, La Quiaca, Perico, El Carmen and Monterrico. And we kept the one in San Salvador and others we already had," says Sadir.
In some of these municipalities there was a strong parity, as in Perico and Monterrico, where the difference was between two and three points, compared to 50% of the votes obtained by the candidate of the Frente Cambia Jujuy in the capital of the province.
"These are data that show a victory that spread throughout the provincial interior," says Sadir.
And he highlights his work with Morales, his political boss, and the "balanced economic situation" of Jujuy, in the face of "discrimination by the national government, in terms of discretionary resources, which we receive the least, and unfinished works, which are not finished. That was accentuated in this last time, "concludes the governor-elect of Jujuy, in dialogue with Clarín.
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