To the corner!
Deputy Eduardo Valdés was blunt: "I think Cristina is going to say that she is going to be a candidate for president." Last Sunday's radio interview with journalist Gabriel Sued had a lot of rebound, as the Peronist leader is shown as a "bridge" between his personal friend Alberto Angel Fernandez and the vice president.
And he added: "I think that on May 25 the act will be done on July 9, and Cristina will be there." The premonitions of the Buenos Aires stainless Peronist did not materialize. CFK got out of the electoral race with a letter posted on Tuesday, and the act for May 25 turned to a march towards the Plaza de Mayo. "It can fail," Juan José del Pozo, better known as Tusam, the mentalist famous for his hypnotism shows in theater and television, always said.
Eduardo Valdés with Cristina Kirchner and Alberto Fernández, at the event on May 25, 2019.
But those statements of Valdés did not go unnoticed: Cristina herself summoned him to the national deputy last weekend and challenged him for having said that she would finally be a candidate for President once again. The "wow factor" is one of the skills that the current Vice President boasts and she does not like anyone to speak for her. At least, Valdés left that meeting and ran to tell her friend Alberto, who was so anoticized that CFK would warn shortly that she would not play as a candidate in this 2023. Oh the Peronists...
The illusionist Tusam or Tu-sam
PROs and Cons
Meanwhile, the internal soap opera of the PRO does not stop its novelesque march. After the summit last Monday between Mauricio Macri, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Patricia Bullrich and María Eugenia Vidal, the discussion on the candidate of the space in the City of Buenos Aires accelerated.
And it was not very happy for Vidal the moment when she made herself available if the space required her for the City. Everyone was silent and finally agreed on a "single candidate" in CABA to be defined through polls between Jorge Macri and Fernán Quirós. The next day, at a press conference, Horacio said that María Eugenia was not going to be measured in that compulsion.
Vidal's decision to go for the presidential fight did not yield any gains for the former governor. That distanced her from her old friend Larreta, showed her close to Mauricio Macri and finally, forced her to publicly get off that race, by virtue of the fact that her national numbers did not rise as she would have wished. Vidal ended up surrounded by Macri's leaders (such as Darío Nieto and the publicist Andrés Gómez) and far from his historical leaders such as Federico Salvai and Gustavo Ferrari. And it complicated Cristian Ritondo, who was running as a pre-candidate for governor of Buenos Aires under his auspices. The seasoned Peronist of Mataderos accelerated his talks with Patricia Bullrich for the Buenos Aires fight and there will be a photo between the two of them in the next 48 to 72 hours.
Now Vidal ponders what to do in this election year, where she seemed to be trapped in the power dispute between Macri and Larreta, two leaders with whom she shared all the events of her political career. Nerves...
Macri, Larreta, Bullrich, Vidal
Ready, set...
On the Macri beaches they say that Mauricio himself would have offered Vidal "the ministry he wanted" on behalf of Patricia Bullrich. Close to the former security minister, they disavow anyone who makes such offers on her behalf.
But before the movements and passes from sector to sector, it is said that the Ministry of Transport was promised (in an eventual Bullrichist government) to a mayor who left the Larretista camp. And that the Presidency of YPF and the Ministry of Social Development would be destined to contain leaders who would be left out of the race for the governorship of Buenos Aires.
Meanwhile, in the City of Buenos Aires, it seems that Soledad Acuña is heading to be the candidate for Vice Chief of whoever is elected as "the" Buenos Aires candidate who will have to go to a PASO with Martín Lousteau, of the Buenos Aires radicalism. That was discussed this week at the charming Savoy Hotel (located on Callao Avenue, in the Congress area), where a gathering brought together for several hours the national deputy Martin Tetaz with Pablo Domenichini, rector of the Guillermo Brown National University and Emiliano Yacobitti's confidant. They were joined by Juan Nosiglia, former Buenos Aires legislator and son of Enrique "Coti" Nosiglia.
That summit – of undeniable support for the Buenos Aires candidacy of Martín Lousteau – supports the idea expressed, with humor, by a Peronist leader who saw them gathered there: "Even if we do not see it, the 'Coti' is always there..." The radical senator is receptive to his political advice as well as that of the omnipresent Daniel "Tano" Angelici. Forward radicals, forward without ceasing...
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Martín Lousteau, at the Usina del Arte.
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