Identity and reaffirmation.
The former Buenos Aires Minister of Education,
Soledad Acuña
, used these two concepts to explain the meeting she held last Saturday with
Mauricio Macri
in Patagonia, where she traveled to visit her parents and where the former president spends his vacation.
It was the way to communicate that now
the former official of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta prefers the company of the founder of the PRO
and to work for him to preside over the party.
"
We met
@mauriciomacri in the south. Together we are
working on a renewal of the PRO
that reaffirms the identity and imprint of the party that we founded in 2001
,
" Acuña published on his X account along with a photo of both. The message was broadcast
this Monday
, but the meeting had taken place last Saturday in the Cumelén country, Macri's refuge and political bunker in Villa La Angostura.
Acuña retired from public duties in December.
In addition to being Minister of Education of the City of Buenos Aires, she had competed to win the candidacy for head of the Buenos Aires Government leveraged by Rodríguez Larreta himself.
Today reality finds her
much closer to Macri
, with whom she started in politics, than to her former boss.
The former minister was in the south to visit her parents who live in Bariloche.
Her husband
Diego Kravetz
took over in December as the city's Secretary of Security - and also chief of the Buenos Aires Police - forced her to suspend family vacations.
While she was in Patagonia,
the former president called her
.
She wanted to talk to Acuña about the renewal of the PRO and, perhaps,
a position in the structure of the party
that will renew authorities in March.
Soledad Acuña and Mauricio Macri in a meeting they had months ago.
Macri is heading
to preside over the PRO.
Patricia Bullrich already warned at the end of the year that she will not seek a new mandate, but for the moment no one rules out that she present her own list with a candidate from her kidney.
The deadline to submit lists expires
on March 19
and the end is open for now.
In any case, the idea that
Macri become president of the party he founded
is gaining strength due to the presentation of a single list.
As Clarín
anticipated
, this working hypothesis includes Bullrich as head of one of the vice presidencies in exchange for him declining his aspirations.
In any case, the most purist wing of the
PRO questions
that the current
Minister of Security
seeks a place in the party structure
while she is the protagonist of Milei's cabinet
.
Beyond this, Macri is determined to play again within the PRO.
He has the support of the majority of the party's provincial presidents and is preparing for a summit and photo
with PRO governors
such as Ignacio “Nacho” Torres (from Chubut) and Rogelio Frigerio (from Entre Ríos) in the coming days.
We met @mauriciomacri in the south.
Together we are working on a renewal of the PRO that reaffirms the identity and imprint of the party that we founded in 2001. pic.twitter.com/7xyJPNQxoX
— María Soledad Acuña (@Soledad_Acunia) February 12, 2024
Acuña has already warned that he has no
intention
of joining Javier Milei's government when the alliance between the PRO and La Libertad Avanza is sealed to have a stronger presence in decision-making and some positions in the Government.
But he did warn that
he wants to work internally in the party.
“Macri wants
the PRO not to lose the essence or direction
of what it was created for at the time,” said sources familiar with the meeting.
Along these lines is the reappearance of Acuña who, despite having supported Rodríguez Larreta's presidential candidacy, was
accepted again under the wing
of Macri, already distanced from the former Buenos Aires mayor.
In that sense, no one rules out
that Acuña could accompany the formula
that Macri would lead to preside over the PRO.
“It could be,”
respond the spokespersons and leave a question raised.
Mixed binomials have been a classic in the genesis of the party.
For now there were no offers, but Macri let it be known that
he wants the historical ones committed to the new stage
, although he does not rule out new faces.
As Clarín
anticipated
, Macri's idea is to reorganize the PRO, keep the largest number of leaders inside and call for a generational renewal in a space that, with the appearance of Milei,
lost almost all of its possible young voters
and that today is fighting for maintaining their identity in the face of a speech that repeats something similar to what Macri always demanded but turned towards the extreme.
D.S.