The senator and pre-candidate for head of Government of Buenos Aires Martín Lousteau was clear when talking about the scenario of Together for Change in the City in the face of the PASO in August, when he will compete with Jorge Macri. The leader of Radical Evolution differed from Mauricio Macri's cousin by stating that he always represented the same district.
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I think the district move is bad in all cases. I always represented it. If I aspire to represent a district very intensely and say 'I want to be governor of this place,' it means you have a connection," he said bluntly.
"That's what laws are made for. If not that you are looking for power in different places. I want to represent and transform the place for which I present myself. It's not that I don't care about any place," he concluded, in a dialogue with Radio Mitre.
Although Lousteau preferred not to get into the judicial landscape and avoided talking about the commotion that was made by the possible challenge to Macri's candidacy, he made some questions.
"It is true that Jorge Macri was a deputy for the province of Buenos Aires twice, mayor Vicente López three times, and that he wanted to be a candidate for governor of the province of Buenos Aires the last election," he recalled.
When asked if he sees himself as the winner in the internal elections, he blurted out: "Unlike those who say 'we are going to win', I am very respectful of the voter."
"What we do is work for a long time in the City and represent this City since always because it is the only district that I have represented," he insisted.
On the other hand, he referred to one of the last discussions within the PRO in relation to the failed inclusion of Juan Schiaretti. The incorporation did not have the approval of Mauricio Macri or Patricia Bullrich.
"In the previous Macri government, instead of being a broad coalition, it was agreed with different governors who were not from space. And there's a give-and-take. When things are going well they work, but when political support is needed then the governors do not appear. So I think they should be inside the Coalition," he said.
He described as "strange and contradictory" the position of Macri and Bullrich when stating that "there is a problem of how the PRO defines these issues within the party."
"Did this discussion exist when Macri chose (Michelangelo) Pichetto as vice president? Not even the PRO had this discussion. I would have liked the process to be more collective and behind closed doors. In the PRO you have two candidates and you have Macri, basically, who debate this through the media. I don't like it," he said.
The comparison of manteros, trapitos and piqueteros
When talking about his proposals for the City, Lousteau considered that with the arrival of Macri "the PRO installed a management method that has execution, a lot of control and works very well." However, he said that "that same method must be taken to other places" such as education.
But he put main emphasis on the pickets: "We have instruments that have not been explored to lower the pickets, to be able to control them and that they do not obstruct the street so that we can all circulate with tranquility."
When asked about the presence of the rags that ask for derisory values in the streets of the City, the senator compared the situation experienced with the manteros: "There has to be police control. Our teams made the transfer of the National Police to the City. For a while we had taken out the manteros and now they are back."
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The occupation of public space either with rags, manteros or pickets is wrong. That needs to be approached in a different way. There has to be a method of coexistence and fines," he concluded.
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