Beyond the PRO's closed defense of DNU 70/2023, the old and new omnibus law and Mauricio Macri's private and public praise for Javier Milei, the former President is upset with the libertarian.
On Tuesday of last week, the Buenos Aires PRO board met at the headquarters of the Buenos Aires government headquarters, in Parque Patricios.
The host
Jorge Macri
, who will preside over the yellow party in the City, received on his birthday the representatives of the PRO in the Province, among whom were the Buenos Aires Chief of Staff and former mayor of Lanús
Néstor Grindetti
, the mayor from Mar del Plata
Guillermo Montenegro
and deputies
Diego Santilli and Cristian Ritondo
, who will retain the strategic presidency of the party in the main electoral district of the country.
Mauricio Macri
, who will once again preside over the party he founded, and his right-hand man
Fernando de Andreis
also sat at that table
.
Among those present there are those who suggest that the former president warned that one of his most trusted men, former Transportation Minister
Guillermo Dietrich
, could soon become an official in
Javier Milei
's administration .
The majority denies it outright
.
They assure that Macri not only does not encourage individual negotiations and emphasize their
confusion at the President's indifference
to/with the PRO governors and mayors who support the Executive.
The vacancies in the former Ministry of Infrastructure that
Luis Caputo
now controls fueled the versions of additions to the Cabinet.
In Dietrich's entourage - who was rumored to be joining the Government, at the start of the administration and with the presidential announcement of a LLA-PRO merger, now delayed - they clarify that the former official is these days
more interested in mining
than in public works.
The name of the former national director of Roads,
Javier Iguacel
, also sounded insistently in the last hours.
In the inner circle of the former mayor of Captain Sarmiento, who did not hide his desire to preside over YPF, they recognize that his name is once again being heard in the Energy Secretariat, occupied by
Eduardo Rodríguez Chirillo
.
Santilli 's direct and personal relationship
with Milei
is an individual bridge that was woven by the former vice head of the Buenos Aires Government, one of the leaders who
most supports and supports the President
.
He was nominated for the Ministry of Defense, hastily for the Ministry of the Interior and for the Ministry of Transportation, where the former Techint Julio Cordero will finally end up.
He is also not interested in the Ministry of Transportation, where
Franco Mogetta
from Córdoba managed to secure his position, after the cataclysm already overcome between Martín Llaryora and the Government.
Horacio de Rodríguez Larreta's former ally, however, is
more than willing to join
the Executive.
The communicating vessels between the PRO and the Casa Rosada do not bet on a
reformulation of the Cabinet
before the
next 60 days
, when the Government goes through - according to its own forecasts - its
worst moment
.
As in December, Macri is still committed to providing the Government with second and third lines with experience, advice that Milei has so far ignored despite the fact that a portion of the appointments in the organizational chart remain vacant.
Santiago Caputo
, who guards the
presidential narrative
, seeks to avoid at all costs that the Cabinet is perceived as a "
second period of Macri
."
The former president, who privately praises the President, does not fully understand why
a photo was not held between the three governors of the PRO and Milei
, after Ignacio Torres, Jorge Macri and Rogelio Frigerio rushed to
bless
the call to the May Pact and its support for the omnibus law.
“Our three do not receive more affection than the rest,” says a member of the former president's small table.
The discomfort is also transferred to several important mayors of the Buenos Aires PRO, who accompanied - with nuances - the direction of the management.
“I do not receive funds from Kicillof, because he hates me, and the Nation does not pay my debts, because there is no money.
They treat (Jorge) Ferraresi better
,” ironically says a municipal executive from an important city who complains about the same thing as everyone else: the absence of reliable interlocutors with the Government.
Libertarians
do not quite see
what the benefit would be of fighting with all the governors and protecting their ties with those of the PRO.
The Macrismo leaders most enthusiastic about the direction of the Government maintain the thesis that
the fate of the PRO is tied to that of Milei
, for better or worse.
“Patricia saw it better: she is
All-in or chock inn
,” they point out in dubious
Spanglish
about the risk of capitalizing on a Milei success or being dragged down by a poor performance.
They also bet that, at least in the short term, a rejection of the DNU or the omnibus law will be beneficial for the official narrative.
The negative image of politicians now reaches 75 percent, only surpassed by unionism.
They clarify, just in case, that in two months the macroeconomic impact of a new political setback could take precedence in the equation.
Near Macri, meanwhile, there are leaders who believe that the normalization of the PRO will not serve to renew the party in the immediate future.
For this reason, the former president received
Martín Yeza
this Thursday and blessed the deputy's initiative.
The former mayor of Pinamar, together with the legislator and former private secretary of the former president,
Darío Nieto
, seeks to weave a network of young political leaders to permeate an age segment dominated by libertarians.
They will be closer to Milei than to the center that Macri wanted to seduce in 2015.
The most and least pro-milistas of the PRO continue to imagine an electoral confluence next year.
Important leaders warn that the President, if he maintains a competitive image, has two strong electoral cards, which distrust each other, but would be enough to relegate Macri leaders in 2025 or 2027:
Karina Milei
, in the City, and
Victoria Villarruel
in the Province, where José Luis Espert also seeks to position himself, who this week formalized his return to the libertarian ranks.