A PRO mayor announces that he will not run again: the reasons

The election campaign moves at a slow pace with leaders reaffirming their candidacies; others who continue to measure their chances; and there are those who put a magnifying glass on them to look in detail at the gestures that dispel speculation. Achieving power and maintaining it is the norm shared by both ends of the divide, but in the past few hours a mayor who has already been in charge of the municipality he governs for two terms has announced that he will not run again. not.

It is Martin Yezaleader of the community of Pinamar, politically born in the PRO and which today is part of Together for change.

This Wednesday, after Alberto Fernández’s speech to the Legislative Assembly and his to the Deliberative Council, he communicated his decision and justified it.

In a video showing him dressed in a blue suit, sitting on a log in one of Pinamar’s signature wooded landscapes, Yeza recounts coming to power – aged 29 – in 2015 when he was elected among 19 mayoral candidates who had the coastal city. “I understood from the first moment that they had not chosen me to do like the previous ones”expressed and illustrated: “We had two great models: either a mayor who had been there for many years, or mayors who had been dismissed or who had not lasted much more than a year.

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“I believe that Argentina needs a new culture of power, and that means: politicians who do what they say they will do; that they know they are not essential; that it is necessary to know how to work in a team; that political parties need to be strengthened; that the democratic system needs alternation and that if your ideas are good enough, they must also know how to spread over the years,” he continued.

“That’s why I made the decision not to run for mayor again,” he announced, adding that the legislation of the province of Buenos Aires allows him to run for a new period of four years. “I am of the idea that in this new culture of power that Argentina desperately needs, what we need are politicians who do what they say, who do what they say”, he pointed out.

Yeza concluded his message by emphasizing that he understood that “the people of Pinamare elected me to do things in a different way and I will continue to do so until the last day of my term”. “What yes, until the last day, until December 10, 2023, I will defend Pinamar tooth and nail, I will defend our way of life and also so that our city can have an institutionally solid city, which has a marked path , with a history and a future, that is what all Pinamarans want,” he concluded.

The community leader shared the video on his Twitter account and remarked that “democratic alternation is healthy over time” and recalled that the city “does not have a former mayor, because the others have been sacked”.

Martín Yeza’s tweet garnered the support of several leaders of Together for Change, among whom stood out Hernan Lombardi. The deputy cited the mayor as “an example”. “Among so many little things, a breath of fresh air”, added the referent of the opposition. “Thank you dear sensei,” Yeza replied.

“Martín is proud that you are part of this team. An example of management and people,” said the MP Christian Ritondo. Senator de Juntos por el Cambio joined in the greetings, Alfredo DeAngeli: “Honesty and respect for what is said are essential.”

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