Javier Milei's nod
to the PRO
from Rome so that La Libertad Avanza moves towards
a merger
with the party founded by Mauricio Macri still does not convince the leaders of the yellow force, who do not yet see the conditions to seal an alliance that sounds like possibility from the first day of the new administration.
PRO governors do not rule out the option, but warn about the risk of converting the seal into a municipal party if changes are not guaranteed.
The President's statement to his collaborators, which
Clarín anticipated
, surprised everyone and everyone.
Firstly, to the PRO leaders who are permanently in communication with Macri and exchange messages with Milei.
It also disconcerted officials with an office in the Casa Rosada that until minutes before the president's green light for the merger with the PRO was given, they were lowering the price for the imminent incorporation of key figures of Macrism, an option that was increased by the
statements in that sense by Patricia Bullrich
and the confirmation of the imminent
request for resignation
of the national officials who came to the Executive to build bridges with governors who ordered a vote against some articles of the failed Omnibus Law.
“
The conditions are not yet met
,” say leaders of the PRO front line who spoke in recent hours with Macri about the versions of a redesign in the official power scheme.
In Macrismo they do the math and
consider the legislative muscle
that they could accumulate in Congress insufficient.
The vote on the omnibus law in Deputies revealed this
weakness
, which could increase if the Mega-DNU receives a setback in the Legislative Palace.
“
They are four senators away from the Senate rejecting it
,” reflected a Macri bishop, alarmed by the
open war between the President and the governors
.
In the PRO they point out that the only possibility for them to join the Government is for leaders with territoriality
to join
and for it to be a
decision of the space
, two requirements that were not present in the landing of Bullrich and his Security team.
The same objection is raised about the versions of an important position for the former head of Highways
Javier Iguacel
.
Several governors of the party warn that, if there are no changes in the political relationship, the PRO is heading towards certain extinction.
They assure that - under current conditions - the party will become a municipal force that would disappear the day its mandate in the City ends.
They demand resources, but above all a respectful coexistence in the Government that they would integrate.
.
Another condition that is discussed inside the party is the need for
former massismo and Peronism officials to leave their places
.
“We did poorly in the third year, but we didn't give anything (to Peronism and the governors).
They (by the Government) gave them everything and screwed them up.
They have to deepen their learning curve and trust us,” said a former Macri minister who remains close to the former president.
Among the references with their own weight who could occupy positions of responsibility there are no surprises:
Cristian Ritondo, María Eugenia Vidal or Diego Santilli
are mentioned .
The first had been proposed by Macri to occupy the presidency of Deputies, a position that fell to the libertarian Martín Menem.
“They also wanted (Florencio)
Randazzo
and he ended up voting against them,” they pointed out against the member of the Making Federal Coalition, a shot at the elevation of the Minister of the Interior, who was pushing that option.
The former governor of Buenos Aires, on the other hand, has been talking for days about occupying the
ANSES
, which must be left by
the Cordoban Osvaldo Giordano
, who had the endorsement of the Minister of Human Capital
Sandra Pettovello
, but was exposed by the vote of his wife Alejandra Torres against of key paragraphs of the “base law”.
In the PRO they hold the legislator responsible for having been one of the main promoters of the changes in pensions that forced the ruling party to back down with the omnibus law.
In Vidal's circle they deny that she is interested in the organization and other heavyweights in her space maintain that her versions actually seek to remove her from office.
Santilli sounds like a replacement for Interior Minister
Guillermo Francos
, who this week had to reiterate that he never thought about resigning from his position.
The political minister is the
main target of criticism from the PRO
for having sealed the landing of leaders close to
Juan Schiaretti and Martín Llaryora
in key positions without the legislative compensation they imagined and for having added
Daniel Scioli to the Executive
.
The most important leaders of the PRO pick up on the street the request of their voters to “
help” Milei
and act accordingly.
However, they fear that the President will repeat the path of leaders like Donald Trump or Jair Bolsonaro who were unable to renew their mandates and lost against their toughest adversaries.
“Bolsonaro lost two years of administration by fighting with Congress,” they maintain.
Among the PRO legislators there is rancor with
Federico Sturzengger
.
They argue that the architect of the Mega-DNU blocked a bill mirroring the labor reform that was rejected by Justice, because it did not include the elimination of the union fee.
Some Macri representatives recognize the presidential advisor Santiago Caputo for his ability to read the social mood, but not his
expertise
in weaving political agreements and point to him - as well as the Nicolás Posse Cabinet - for having blocked the arrival of Macristas to key positions.