It was broken Together for change in Salta: the PRO and the UCR will present their own candidates for the post of governor

After difficult negotiations in the last 48 hours, Together for Change burst into Salta and the PRO has decided to present its own list for the provincial elections of May 14, where the succession of the governor is at stake Gustavo Saenz. The opposition coalition debated late into the night what was the closure of the alliances ordered by the electoral justice. The operators of the laretismhe bullrichism and the radicalism national.

The two candidates for the post of governor of JxC are Inés Liendo for the PRO and the national deputy Miguel Nanni for the UCR. Earlier this week, they had reached a tentative agreement. Eduardo Macchiavelli, political purveyor of Horace Rodriguez Larreta inside, he was in Salta on Tuesday to try to unblock the situation. While from Buenos Aires, Federico Angelini and Damián Arabia are the operators of bullrichism monitoring the situation.

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Initially, Liendo and Nanni they had found a common point to agree places for certain provincial candidacies. In turn, they advanced to define the formula for the post of governor and, possibly, that Liendo would compete for the mayor of the capital. However, everything fell apart this morning.

The deal went too far after a blow of radicalism that upset Salta’s PRO. “There duke He decided to join a party of the governor, very aligned with Massa and we prefer to go there alone”, assured GlobeLiveMedia a leader of the yellow party which follows the internal opposition of Salta.

Negotiations exploded when the UCR included the Plural Front in the coalition, a party chaired by Matía Posadas, a leader linked to Governor Sáenz. Posadas chairs the Economic and Social Council of Salta and was previously an official of the governor. “We have decided to be faithful to our convictions and not to sign the constitutive act of the front”, they replied to this PRO media and confirmed the fracture.

In the yellow party, they suspect that Gerardo Morales, governor of Jujuy and candidate for the presidency of the UCR, was behind this decision of the radicalism in Salta to harm the PRO. It is something close to Morales refuse.

Another point they underlined in the party founded by Mauricio Macri is that Sáenz is a governor linked to Sergio Massa. Morales and Massa have a long political relationship. These are details that worry the PRO and motivate the determination to distance itself from the construction of radicalism in Salta.

In this context, the PRO will constitute its own list to compete in the provincial election. Liendo is the name that rings the loudest for the gubernatorial candidacy. At that time, the leaders of the PRO were meeting in Salta to recalculate the electoral engineering and decide on the steps to follow.

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Around noon, the Salta PRO published a statement informing of the decision to break the agreement with radicalismo. “Despite the enormous effort we have made on the part of the party to maintain the unity of Together for Change in the province, finally the PRO will have its own list in the provincial elections”, details the mass.

“Unity is a fundamental value for us, and that is why during all this time we have discussed and tried to reach the agreements necessary to maintain and strengthen Together for Change in Salta”, adds the text. Then he continues: “We believe that the expansion of space strengthens it, because the diversity of voices and points of view allows us to find better solutions for the people of Salta”.

However, the The PRO did not tolerate the centenary party tactic and the rope was cut. The political tension due to the closure of the list in Salta is added to other provinces, such as Tierra del Fuego, Mendoza, Neuquén or Río Negro, where JxC had and has nuances that put the chances of winning the elections in these districts at risk.

It is profanity that increases national tension, triggered by the fierce detainee between Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich, president of the PRO. Both are in the presidential race and turmoil between the two is hampering provincial and district negotiations.

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