"A
liberal center-right option
, exactly."
One day before the runoff,
Mauricio Macri and Javier Mile
i spoke for a long time on the phone.
And they agreed on that point.
Even if there was a defeat for the presidential candidate of La Libertad Avanza, both would work together to generate a political force with that guideline.
Finally there was victory, but that promise never came to fruition.
The
agreement that the President wants to revive
, as Clarín announced exclusively during the tour of Israel, Rome and the Vatican, is supposed to be part of that logic.
But perhaps because of the initial failed promise, doubts persist.
Especially in the PRO.
The dialogue between the two leaders is more than fluid.
An example?
They spoke Wednesday and Thursday of last week
, the day before and the same day of Macri's 65th birthday.
In these talks, the agreement on the direction is almost total.
Even
the former president grants Milei the courage to move quickly with the adjustment as he is doing
.
Self-criticism of his own experience in La Rosada?
A psychologist on the right.
But the harmony between the two begins to dilute when it is necessary to put into practice what is discussed in the previous session.
In pure Macriism they point to two leaders:
the Chief of Staff Nicolás Posse and the Minister of the Interior Guillermo Francos
.
To the first they attribute a
personal anti-Macrism
, for which they cannot find a rational explanation;
The second, they place it as a
more ideological and historical issue
: "With Scioli, Randazzo, Monzó and others, Francos tries to do what he could not do in 2015. But
with the Omnibus Law they screwed up.
We had anticipated it," he describes a senior leader of the PRO.
First casualties
The same source gives the name and surname to the first casualty that the party will have if the agreement is formalized: Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. It does not attract so much attention: the former head of Government publicly and privately rejects Milei's course and ways.
The bleeding, for everyone, might not end there.
"Whenever these agreements are made, some legislator leaves
," they resign in the PRO, which today forms a bloc of 37 deputies.
There are figures who campaigned for Larreta, with moderate speech and also rejected the libertarian style.
Will they challenge Macri by slamming the door?
Silence.
On the libertarian side, a bench of similar size (38 deputies) is expected, but with a
much more heterogeneous and fractious makeup
.
Before Milei took office, and despite the 56% clean sweep, two legislators formed their bloc (Carolina Píparo and Lorena Macyszyn).
"That's nonsense. With everything you can criticize, (Oscar) Zago works, Martín Menem too. And a few more. The rest, they don't know the issues, they don't read the projects...", a Macrista complains beforehand .
Anticipation of turbulent coexistence.
"We are waiting for Javier's return to see what the agreement would be like
," they respond briefly in the office of a libertarian deputy.
There are dissimilar views on the block.
With the failure of the Omnibus Law, criticism of Zago's driving style was heard.
A merger with the PRO could generate more noise.
Especially if Cristian Ritondo remains in charge of the Chamber.
Some threaten to imitate Píparo
.
A new middle avenue?
In parliamentary terms, but also politically, the confirmation of this merged liberal right could give rise to
a new center
.
At the other extreme, of course, there will be Peronism K and the left.
This way a more moderate proposal could be generated, or attempted to be regenerated.
The old avenue in the middle
.
The radical bloc (34 deputies) could be located there;
to the conglomerate of Peronists, former Macristas, Lilitos and socialists led by Miguel Picheto (23 legislators);
and other smaller groups.
"A productivist, exporting alternative
," summarizes
Rodrigo de Loredo
, the head of the radical group.
"Neither deficit distributionism nor import fiscal model," he differentiates himself.
"I say alternative, not opposition,"
clarifies the man from Córdoba and the nuance could be good news for the Government.
It would be the difference that would lead his bloc to accompany the ruling party as it did with a part of the Omnibus Law or when the finer discussion of the deregulatory DNU takes place.
A well-known pollster has reservations about the political future of an armed group of this type.
Especially thinking about the next legislative election.
"I don't see leadership or political space that represents it. There is a band, 20% or 30% that has that view but then cannot be articulated. In my opinion
the new crack is Milei-anti Milei
. If it lasts we will go towards that" .