"I didn't see the picture, I was working." In this way Jorge Macri sought to dismiss the staging of the support of the majority of the Buenos Aires Cabinet to Fernán Quirós, his internal rival in the PRO promoted by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta in the dispute for his succession.
Determined to compete in the PASO with the support of his cousin Mauricio Macri and Patricia Bullrich, for the Minister of Government two positions will crystallize and he will go in search of the hard vote macrista and also the one related to the libertarians, the portion of the electorate refractory to the mayor of the City.
"I am convinced that I will be head of government. Because I am the best candidate and I trust a lot in the porteños, who know how to choose," said Jorge Macri at the Amcham meeting on Tuesday, and then implicitly pointed to the resentment generated by the closeness of Rodríguez Larreta with Martín Lousteau: "I want the PRO to govern, to be the central construction. It is what I am defending in the City, that the PRO continues to be a government. Any plan that alters that goal takes me off the axis."
The dissemination of the photo of Quirós with members of the Buenos Aires Cabinet, just after the summit between the referents of the party in Palermo, implied another challenge from Rodríguez Larreta to Mauricio Macri.
The next day, on the side of Vicente López's mayor, on leave, they noted that Clara Muzzio, María Migliore and Waldo Wolff, among other officials, did not appear in the image. Neither did Soledad Acuña, but from the headquarters of Uspallata they showed a photo with Quirós to ratify their presence. Another sign of rising tensions.
The photo of a good part of the Buenos Aires Cabinet and other officials supporting the candidacy of Fernán Quirós.
A month and a half after the closing of the lists, in the Macrismo they do not rule out an agreement to anoint the only PRO candidate in the City although at the same time they are preparing to compete.
"It is another mistake they make, because Quirós is still low in the polls and that will reflect that Horacio does not transfer votes," they questioned close to Jorge Macri, and advanced that an axis of the campaign strategy will be to focus on the "hard vote" of the PRO and the electorate related to Javier Milei.
On the hunt for the libertarian electorate
Critical of the concurrent elections, that is, the same day although with different systems, Jorge Macri still found a point that could favor him within that scheme celebrated by Lousteau. When the presidential ballots are separated from the Buenos Aires candidates, the government minister will try to attract the voters of the liberal economist.
As in the category for mayor Ramiro Marra – headed as a candidate of La Libertad Avanza – will have less drag with the single electronic ballot, according to estimates in the bunker of the cousin of the former president there could be a difference of several points with the economist.
"Jorge is the one who is in the best position to capitalize on it," they said in reference to the moderate profiles of Lousteau and Quirós, and also of Graciela Ocaña. The three aligned with Rodríguez Larreta, whom Milei questions in harsh terms and with an aggressive speech.
Soledad Acuña and Fernán Quirós, this Monday, at the meeting to support the pre-candidacy of the Minister of Health.
Jorge Macri appeared with Roberto García Moritán -pre-candidate of United Republicans- and Yamil Santoro. The meeting had been last week, but the photo transcended this Monday. "We are part of the same political space and they express liberal ideas in which I also believe and are very valuable," he completed the wink, and did not rule out a possible agreement to share the formula.
In the City, the candidate for vice chief is defined after the PASO, but he could announce it before as Rodríguez Larreta did with Diego Santilli in 2015. At the end of April, in turn, Jorge Macri had posed with Marra at the meeting of the Conscience Association.
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, with Gerardo Morales and Martín Lousteau, on Sunday at the celebrations for the elections in Jujuy.
With the tension increasing, and after she gave up her national aspirations, María Eugenia Vidal was again mentioned as a possible letter of consensus, although the former Buenos Aires governor does not consider the current scenario propitious for a candidacy in the City.
Mauricio Macri ratified the support for his cousin and so did Bullrich. "There is not going to be an operative clamor for her," they said near the mayor of Vicente López.
"For now it is not viable. If he got off because it was noisy that there were three candidates for president, what sense would it make for him to join those who already have the PRO in the City?", they let transcend after the summit of the referents in the Palermo property.
The dispute for the moment is raised between Jorge Macri and Quirós, added to the suspicion of the hard wing to the closeness between Rodríguez Larreta and Lousteau.
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