After the announcement of the PRO summit, in which the main referents agreed to define by polls a single candidate of the party in the City to compete in the PASO against Martín Lousteau, representatives of Jorge Macri and Fernán Quirós resolved that they will commission them to three consultants and that the result will be at the end of the month.
However, the mayor of Vicente López -with license- and current minister of the Buenos Aires Government, who comes up in voting intention, announced that he will not accept "sudden changes" in the numbers and did not rule out reaching the primaries with two PRO candidates.
"It has to be an agreement that gives us all peace of mind, that there are no strange surprises in the polls. What has been decided is to have three pollsters of the most serious, in which we trust and that have been measuring the City habitually because that gives you a peace of mind, that there will be no sudden changes let's say, "said Jorge Macri to FM Milenium.
And then he warned: "If you come measuring weekly and more or less it gives you a number and suddenly changes everything, I'm going to raise my hand and say, 'hey, how strange this'".
In this way, of the confidence that he had transmitted on Monday once the methodology to unify the candidate was confirmed – from the Macrismo they considered it an "elegant exit" of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta to lower Quirós – Jorge Macri warned on Wednesday that he will have his guard up and will not accept to desist from his candidacy in case the Minister of Health measures better.
"What I open is a door of a possibility that we achieve that agreement. And if not, I rest drama to the possibility that the neighbor chooses. I have a lot of confidence in the citizen. If we do not manage to reach an agreement in the next few days, ultimately we can compete and trust the people," he returned to the hypothesis of a dispute between two PRO candidates in the PASO, in addition to the radical Lousteau and eventually Graciela Ocaña and Ricardo López Murphy, who also expressed intentions to fight for the succession of Rodríguez Larreta.
Fernando de Andreis and Mora Jozami on the side of Jorge Macri, and Alvaro González and Federico Di Benedetto on behalf of Quirós, defined that three consultants will make surveys both face-to-face and telephone and online. They also agreed on the questionnaires, which will include image differential, electoral floors and ceilings and projections towards the general election and an eventual runoff.
What generated Jorge Macri's objections? "We have all been measuring for more than four months and we are up by more than double the difference. What can change in 10 days? There is a political agreement, but until the distrust is fulfilled, "they ratified close to the candidate endorsed by Mauricio Macri.
The hard wing of the PRO refers to the definition of concurrent elections in the City by Rodríguez Larreta as a precedent to argue suspicions: remember that the mayor announced it on a Monday, without prior notice, after recording the video a few days before.
"The agreement reached by the top PRO referents is positive. We always said that it was good to have a single candidate and now we found a method to reach that solution, "claimed what was resolved by the party leadership Alvaro González, trusted leader of Rodríguez Larreta and campaign manager of Quirós, before the consultation of Clarín.
The Minister of Health will increase the frequency of activities in the City and the presence in media and networks. In the team of the head of government did not go down well with the statements of Jorge Macri. "Let him say what he wants. If you are part of a space and a decision is made, you have to accept it. If not, it will break the PRO," they said.
The announcement about the method to agree on a candidate was confirmed after a summit attended by Macri, Rodríguez Larreta, Patricia Bullrich and María Eugenia Vidal, in the department in Recoleta of the former Buenos Aires president. The tension had been escalating due to the decision of the mayor of Buenos Aires to strengthen the candidacy of Quirós and the decision of the former president to support the candidacy of his cousin.
A controversy could be precipitated by the criteria for weighting the results of the polls. "We must evaluate the different variables together to define who is better," Quirós said in order to take a "general" view and not just the intention to vote. For example, the Minister of Health has a better image differential and a higher ceiling.
Another possible discussion revolves around the timing of anointing the sole candidate. "We do not want to be kicked to June," they warned in the bunker of Jorge Macri, before the position of the referents of Quirós, who countered that a "reasonable survey" takes time and estimated the definition for after the long weekend.
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