On the edge of the deadline to register electoral alliances, the City was again one of the districts with the greatest tensions for Together for Change. In this case because of the discussion on the floor that will be necessary to overcome in the PASO to integrate in the general lists for legislators and comuneros porteños.
On the one hand, Jorge Macri intended to raise it. On the other, Martin Lousteau bid to remain at 15%, arguing that higher will be detrimental to smaller spaces. From the radicalism they attributed it to an alleged intention of the cousin of the former president that Ricardo Lopez Murphy desist from competing for the head of government.
Fernando de Andreis, Jorge Macri's campaign manager, and deputy Emiliano Yacobitti, on behalf of Lousteau, negotiated late into the night. The floor was set at 20%, a number that left according to the former mayor of Vicente López, according to his collaborators.
Lousteau did not manage to sustain the 15% that had been governing in previous elections, although from his sector they maintained that the government minister was pressing to rise to 30% and in the end he also had to resign his pretensions.
Lousteau and Jorge Macri, rivals for the succession of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, had also been confronted by the electoral system of the City. The radical senator pushed the concurrent elections, that is, the same day as the national ones but for the Buenos Aires positions with a single electronic ballot.
In this way, local candidates will be unhooked from the presidential ballots, which was convenient for Lousteau because of the lower weight of the UCR presidential candidates. Jorge Macri questioned Rodríguez Larreta's decision, but in the end accepted it.
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