"Patricia changes parties like the team's "Tweety" Carrario."
The football phrase was read in a WhatsApp chat of PRO leaders in recent days.
Silvio René Carrario was a prolific goalscorer in the late '90s who played for 17 clubs over an 18-year career: a multi-shirt player, in a way.
The
sharp comparison
, which sparked smiles and more than one emoji, summarizes what many party leaders think of the party's still president.
That embarked on her own personal project within the government of Javier Milei,
Bullrich thinks of the PRO as part of an imminent alliance with La Libertad Avanza
, but that in the rush to agree can make her lose the status that others seek to preserve.
There are different versions of that
remembered electoral pact on October 24 at Mauricio Macri's house
, in which seven people participated: the former president, Milei, his sister Karina Milei, Bullrich, Guillermo Francos, Cristian Ritondo and Diego Santilli.
There are those who say that that day Macri told Milei that he did not want positions in a possible government and others who maintain that it was actually the current president who told him that he could not offer them.
Even among libertarians, there are those who still regret having gone looking for that society.
"We still won the runoff, alone," they say.
At this time,
this tug of war is repeated as it was four months ago
, although some needs have changed.
Urged to move forward with a series of reforms, in an evident management crisis with a dozen first and second line officials already fired in just 60 days, Milei is aware that they
need to strengthen their cabinet with political volume
.
As well as its relationship with the
legislative leg
after the fall of the Omnibus Law and the damaged relationship with the governors.
On the PRO side, what has been said.
The
great dilemma
between preserving the identity of the party that
Macri aims to preside over since March 19
, even being part of a Milei government, or combining with the libertarians being within the same group, even with the risk that the project fails and blood splashes everywhere.
It is in this dilemma that
Bullrich seems to become increasingly isolated.
For the former candidate for president, we must align ourselves as a party around the project of Milei, her current political boss.
The minister doubts Macri's intentions to approach the President
.
Confronted with him, she believes that the former head of state seeks to gain power from her instead of collaborating with the management.
Macriism and partly Mileism think that Bullrich's intention, in reality, is to aim for a Cabinet leadership in the future, especially if Nicolás Posse, as some libertarian voices believe, seeks to manage the Infrastructure funds that, after the departure of Guillermo Ferraro from the ministry, they remained under the orbit, at least for now, of the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo.
Doubts regarding the idea of a party merger
It is almost a fact that
there will be a political agreement between the PRO and Libertad Avanza, but the conditions will be negotiated.
In the legislative area, the idea that there is
a single interbloc does not convince
almost any PRO deputy, a bench with 37 own legislators, the majority reluctant to mix with 38 libertarian leaders with whom they coincide little or not at all in the day-to-day life of Congress .
"No one agrees with the idea of merging under the terms that Patricia proposes," comments a
parliamentary source in relation to the statements made by the current Minister of Security.
And in that sense, there is a reflection that they share in general, even with many deputies from We Make the Federal Coalition, the other bloc made up of former representatives of Together for Change.
"It's one thing that we don't share ideas with each other, that we've known each other all our lives and we're friends in many cases, but another thing is that you get screwed by these kids, who criticize us in the lobby when in reality the law they presented is full lobbying everywhere," says another legislative representative of the party.
A pure PRO image from this weekend: Rogelio Frigerio, Guillermo Montenegro, Diego Santilli and Esteban Bullrich, together in Mar del Plata.
Ritondo 's name
is the one that is being heard there to try to unify this future interblock of 75 deputies
.
Milei and Macri respect him, they speak with him periodically, and they wanted him since December at the head of the Chamber of Deputies, which Martín Menem finally presided over, highly questioned in recent weeks.
Even part of the dialoguist Peronism believes that legislative consensus would be much easier to close with the Buenos Aires leader at the head of that interbloc, although he, they say close to him, is not convinced by the idea of doing the same work as until now but with a much larger group.
Another central deputy of the PRO is María Eugenia Vidal, whom Macri would have suggested as a replacement for the ANSeS in place of the ejected Osvaldo Giordano.
Due to her historical ideological differences with Milei,
Vidal is told by those around her that she does not close the idea of a merger
, but in any case she talks about discussing a "government coalition."
"First we have to discuss the direction that the Government wants to take. There are coincidences on the economic front, but the government is not only economic, but also institutional and social," is the proposal put forward by the former Buenos Aires governor.
The governors, open to an agreement between the spaces
After a summer of constant intersections and chicanes within the framework of the discussion of the Omnibus Law between Milei and the governors of Together for Change,
the PRO leaders welcome the political alliance in the day-to-day management
, because they understand that the relationship between the provinces and the Casa Rosada would flow with more nature.
"It is always good and positive that a government that is fragile in parliamentary and territorial terms expands its base of political support. That it consolidates a larger bloc in Congress, and that it improves its relationship with the governors and mayors of the space," is the phrase they release near
Rogelio Frigerio (Entre Ríos) and Ignacio Torres (Chubut)
.
Jorge Macri, head of the Buenos Aires Government and good dialogue with the President, can also join the group.
In the case of Torres and Frigerio, internally they are convinced that we must support the government that has just taken office, despite the noise and the crossed darts of recent weeks.
And they maintain that many issues of the DNU and the Omnibus law must be insisted on taking to Congress and sanctioning them.
The governor of Chubut, Ignacio Torres, open to a possible political alliance.
Nor do they believe that it is good for either the Government or the provinces to continue with this climate of tension
.
That we must find common themes, rebuild bridges and work on a new fiscal pact that defines responsibilities in expenses and discuss taxes that are not shared.
They will raise these issues in their opening speeches for sessions on March 1.
To that group we can also add
Diego Santilli, who has a very good relationship with Milei, with whom he speaks directly
, and whose name has already been raised more than once in this time to occupy a ministry, be it the Interior or Security, in case Francos goes to an embassy or Bullrich assumes another position.
Today that possibility seems very difficult, especially because "Colo" imagines his future as a candidate again in the province of Buenos Aires, both in 2025 and in the distant 2027.
It is in that area where possible alliances for next year are negotiated, although still very tenuously, which from the mileism have as articulators
Carlos Kikuchi and Sergio Vargas
, senators from Buenos Aires and in charge of starting to walk and think about the next campaign in the Province , especially in inland municipalities where the idea of a future political partnership between the PRO, La Libertad Avanza and other related parties is taking shape.