The national deputy and pre-candidate for governor of the Province of Buenos Aires of Together for Change, Diego Santilli, challenged Axel Kicillof and insisted that he would like a mixed formula for the Province in which the radicals join.
"I beat Kicillof in 2021 and we are going to win him again in 2023," said the pre-candidate who must first compete in the PASO of Juntos against Néstor Grindetti, the mayor of Lanús who will be the pre-candidate of Patricia Bullrich.
On the formation of the formulas, Santilli insisted on including the UCR. "I would like a mixed formula with radicalism. We need to build a true government coalition because the challenges we are going to face after Kicillof's mismanagement will be very complex and profound," he warned in radio statements on Saturday morning.
In that mark, he added: "Kicillof is speculating to see where he takes advantage in the Province with the possible split. We are going to beat Kirchnerism in any scenario. They want to take refuge in the province as they did in 2015 in La Matanza, where they made a disaster."
In addition, the leader of Together for Change highlighted what the Province needs: "We must make a deep and thorough transformation. Put it back in the right place. It is the most powerful in Argentina. We want to put it on its feet with a government that administers, that orders the accounts, and that puts energy into boosting production, confronting crime and building a modern educational agenda."
Finally, he referred to the interview in "Duro de Domar" of Vice President Cristina Kirchner: "It is a monologue of the failure of a government. It brought us malaria. It is a new story to try to reach an election. She chose the President."
The link with the UCR
After the nomination of Néstor Grindetti as a competitor of Diego Santilli in the PASO of August, both try to close formula. The mayor of Lanús goes for a companion of the Buenos Aires Interior, legislator or with territorial power, and the deputy seeks to fish in the same "chacarera representation" of a large district of the center or south of the province.
They do not rule out, as they admit in their campaign centers, the possibility of carrying a radical companion.
"Coexistence is assured," they insist on both sides. While the hours are ticking, the predominant sector of the radicals wants to list the candidate for lieutenant governor on the stock exchange. Although, in a unique formula with Santilli or Grindetti. The name is Maximiliano Abad, president of the provincial radicalism. All under an agreement of parliamentary co-government and in the Executive. That describes legislative lists, in the central administration and bureaucratic decision-making spaces.
