The Minister of Health of Buenos Aires, Fernán Quirós, spoke after this Tuesday morning Horacio Rodríguez Larreta announced that the pre-candidate for head of Government for the PRO will be Jorge Macri. The until moments ago also postulated published a letter where he affirmed that he reached "a political agreement" with the current minister of Government of Buenos Aires.
"Jorge has a very consolidated voting intention in the polls and I have a very auspicious potential. Consequently, we reached a political agreement," said Quirós, who also maintained that "the unity of space" was prioritized.
The minister said that "the majority of porteños" believe that "the PRO has to continue governing the City" and said that to achieve that goal "we must be represented by a single candidate."
In the PASO of Together for Change to define the candidate for head of government of the space are also noted Martin Lousteau (Radical Evolution), Graciela Ocaña (Public Trust), Roberto García Moritán (United Republicans) and Ricardo López Murphy (he has yet to define with what stamp he will present himself after the internal unleashed against García Moritán by the candidacy of RU).
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Quirós considered that in such hard times in Argentina, society deserved a process of election of the PRO pre-candidate that is respectful, without personalism and above all based on the majority expression of society through the instruments we have at hand."
A chicane in the letter of Fernán Quirós
The doctor, however, slipped a chicane against the methodology chosen to define the PRO candidate, the polls. He said these instruments expressed the intention of majorities, "even if they are not perfect."
He also thanked in his letter the support he received, in addition to Rodríguez Larreta, María Eugenia Vidal and Elisa Carrió. The leader of the Civic Coalition was the main promoter of her pre-candidacy.
Quirós stressed that during the campaign he worked "tirelessly to build a style of doing politics" that would allow him to contribute to society what he learned throughout his life. "A style with my principles and values: solidarity, cooperation, empathy, professionalism, dedication and word," he said in the text he called "letter of declination."
He maintained that respecting and caring for people "always was and will be" the most important thing for him. "That care includes the conviction that the public official is at the service of society and it is always the whole that determines its own destiny."
"Ours is to listen to it, understand it and facilitate the processes of cooperation between society and its rulers so that this is possible," he added.
He stressed that the "harmony" between what he thinks, feels and does made him "travel these complex paths in peace" and highlighted "having been able to maintain" his "ideals."
All the officials of the Buenos Aires cabinet supporting the candidacy of Quirós that finally did not go.
"For this decision I was helped a lot by the encouragement they gave me and the recommendations that this process does not change my essence," he acknowledged between thanks to the PRO teams, his family and the volunteers who worked on his campaign.
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