From Mendoza, a photo of the PRO and the UCR waving the detainee of Together for Change

Patricia Bullrich succeeded in bringing together in a photo several leaders of the UCR in the harvest festival in Mendoza: he spoke at length and posed with Alfredo Cornejo, Gustavo Valdés, Facundo and Gastón Manes, Carolina Losada, Luis Naidenoff and Rodrigo de Loredo. Together, they are leaders who are beginning to distance themselves from the leader of radicalism, Gerardo Morales, and senator Martín Lousteau for a specific reason: their political harmony with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.

As for the “anti-crack” referent Emilio Monzó, his presence was read as confirmation of a brand new addition to the campaign of the head of the PRO.

In Mendoza, governed by the UCR, the party of Leandro N. Alem has thus sketched out a kind of division which will affect the electoral assembly of Together for Change. What is taking shape around Bullrich is an axis of radicality far from larretism and close to the head of the PRO. The talks have not started in this province and are linked to the contacts that Mauricio Macri had with some of the radical leaders who do not agree with Morales.

The photo was taken this morning on the terrace of the Hyatt Hotel in the provincial capital, minutes after the end of the act of the Corporacion Vitivinicola Argentina (COVIAR) with the stellar presence of Governor Rodolfo Suárez, Morales and ministers of the national government such as Sergio Massa, Eduardo “Wado” of Pedro, Victoria Tolosa Paz and Daniel Filmus. Opposition leaders, as the event unfolded, gathered in the hotel cafeteria to negotiate the terms of the photo and await the arrival of the plane of Facundo Manes, the last to join the entourage of the JxC.

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In addition to Morales and Lousteau, the great outcast of this movement is Rodríguez Larreta, who decided to anticipate his visit to the Moisson last Thursday, and is represented this Saturday by government officials from Buenos Aires such as Fernando Straface and Eduardo Macchiavelli. None of them, nor another larretista like PRO MP Omar De Marchi, took part in the talks or the final photo.

Bullrich arrived in Mendoza Friday evening and spent the evening chatting with his closest leaders and like-minded radicals at the Hyatt Hotel at an event hosted by Governor Suárez. While the head of PRO was with Cornejo, Valdés, Losada, Naidenoff and Loredo, accompanied by leaders in their sector such as Hernán Lombardi, Federico Angelini, Sebastián García de Luca, Eduardo Amadeo, Laura Rodríguez Machado and Damián Arabia, far from they were located Morales and Lousteau. They had greeted each other, but there was no approach.

The UCR is formally united, but the PRO fight has already caused a climate of division which has become official in these hours in Mendoza. For bullrichism, this is the first kick-off of a kind of internal rebellion before the certain prospect that Morales and Lousteau conclude an electoral agreement with Larreta.

The so-called “B radicals” (due to their closeness to Bullrich) aren’t as exhaustive in affirming their support for the PRO chief’s presidential project, but they admit in a whisper that her running mate will come out of this new alliance in the within JxC. Losada? Loredo? Nobody knows yet, but some have also bet a few chips on Valdés, the governor of Corrientes.

As bullies and radical “dissidents” tried to stay away from Alberto Fernández’s ministers at the Coviar event, Morales shared the stage with K officials and delivered a speech that, beyond references to the wine sector, seemed to have inspired him. thought: he said that “the best way is dialogue” and he spoke out in favor of the negotiation of “sustainable public policies” between the different political sectors. Almost as if he was preparing the ground for the launch of his candidacy, on the 15th of this month, or to assist Larreta in the formula.

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