Larreta puts pressure on Bullrich and the JxC trainee moves to the province of Buenos Aires: Vidal’s key card

Those who know the political geography of Argentina agree that you cannot win a presidential election without winning in the province of Buenos Aires. It’s the most people of the country, which represents the 37% of the register total election. For this reason, the territory of Buenos Aires is also a kind of guarantor of legitimacy there governance for the Pink House. In Together for change (JxC) knows these concepts and in the next weeks the coalition will have the province as the theater of its interns.

The opposition has not yet recovered from the turbulence who produced the escalation Since internal In the city of Buenos Aires. The decision to Horace Rodriguez Larretahead of the government of Buenos Aires, to convene simultaneous elections in your neighborhood fracture his political ties with Mauricio Macri and triggered a dispute in between for him direction by JxC.

The ex-president said privately that the political attitude of the mayor of Buenos Aires is “traitor”. Larreta tries not to publicly respond to the darts that you receive from the PRO. The mayor aspires to lead a Moncloa Pact Argentinian and venerates the councils of “Praise of Treason”.

It’s a arm wrestling with epicenter in the PRO that produced resonance among the other political partners on the front. It is the climax of a power crisisr whose seed was born after the defeat of Cambiemos in 2019. In this dispute, Patricia Bullrich there Marie Eugenie Vidal They are in tune with Macri.

In this showdown, the city and province of Buenos Aires are two places that have central importance for the national leaders of JvC. THE differences are around what should be the strategy politics and who the candidates. JxC a eight pre-candidates to the governor: In the PRO, Diego Santilli he is the bishop of Rodríguez Larreta; Nestor Grindetti, Joaquin De La Torre there Javier Iguacel they are the candidates of Patricia Bullrich; while Christian Ritondo He is the leader supported by María Eugenia Vidal.

On the side of radicalism, Abbot Maximilian is the candidate they support Facundo Manes and the majority of Buenos Aires mayors from the UCR. The one who also promotes it – in the shadows – is former senator Ernesto Sanz. martin tetaz is published with the endorsement of Martin Lousteau and Radical Evolution, while the candidacy of Gustavo Posse has the wink of the governor of Jujuy, Gerard Morales.

Patricia Bullrich faces a political crossroads to determine which of their three pre-candidates will participate in the JvC STEP. The leader maintains that not yet defined and you don’t have a specific time frame to do so. Instead, Grindetti, Iguacel and De La Torre start to eager. The three consider that if they are not united in a candidacy, they confuse the electorate and they do not take off in their electoral campaigns. These are two arguments that go hand in hand.

Grindetti is the one who first expressed some embarrassment. Iguacel and De La Torre felt they could wait a bit longer. However, everything accelerated in the heat of the Larreta vs. Macri fight. The three bullrichista pre-candidates are in permanent contacts. During these hours they try to reach a OK to make a proposal to Bullrich. They understand that if they get a common pointprevent the former Minister of Security from being forced to choose her.

At the beginning of April, Iguacel received De La Torre at Capitán Sarmiento, the district that has governed since 2019. Both agreed to seek a common solution. That same week, the former mayor of San Miguel and Grindetti met in a building in the Retiro neighborhood, in CABA. All three consider that the definition should precede the May 10. Bullrich will listen to offers, but assures that the final decision will be made by her.

Hay something Bullrich is clear: will arrive at STEP with a candidate for governor confront Santilli. This produces the complaint of Rodríguez Larreta. Macri and the former security minister lobbied him for there to be only one PRO candidate in the City. They even demanded that it be Jorge Macri, to the detriment of the larretists Fernán Quirós and Soledad Acuña. Why are there not identical conditions in the province? asks Larreta, as a rhetorical way of demanding that the yellow party support Santilli’s candidacy in Buenos Aires. It will not arrive. The former president and Bullrich have a preference for the other candidates.

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Rodríguez Larreta, on the other hand, commits his entire structure behind Santilli. After resolving his candidate for governor, the challenge of the head of government is organize the mayors PRO in the same direction and support candidates competitive in the municipalities governed by the Frente de Todos. On Saturday he visited White Bay and he put pressure to Bullrich: “I will defend unity in the municipalities where our JxC mayors govern. We must get to the bottom of the fight for having won more municipalities and won the province of Buenos Aires again, ”tweeted the head of government from the south of the territory of Buenos Aires.

The Mayor of Buenos Aires put pressure on Bullrich so that there are no prisoners in the communes governed by JxC. The former Minister of Security intends to wear a own candidate for mayor in the 135 municipalities of Buenos Aires. The monsoon MP Sebastien Garcia De Lucaleader of the bullrichista campaign in the province, weaves an assembly that promotes the scheme of Latina “I”: implies that the Larreta-Bullrich course takes place in all categories.

In the mayors and territorial leaders of the yellow party there are consent to put pressure on Larreta and Bullrich to agree on a common strategy that does not put municipalities at risk. On this axis, Macri and Vidal are in tune with the proposal of the mayors PRO.

For his part, Vidal maintains the political uncertaintyon his electoral future. In February, he launched his candidacy for the presidency and at the beginning of April, he anticipated that end of the month and beginning of May will determine whether he pursues his presidential project. This definition will be key for JxC. If you decide to drop your presidential candidacy, will you run in another category? Will he lean towards Bullrich, at Macri’s request, or will he approach Larreta?

Vidal has a key card behind your definition: Christian Ritondo. He is the candidate for governor of Buenos Aires with the best position in the JxC polls -behind Santilli-. The national deputy has oiled dialogue with Bullrich. In the rhytondism they slip that reconciliation is possible of both in the province. However, Ritondo is loyal to Vidal and she won’t budge from there until the former governor finally reveals what she’s going to do.

Bullrich there is no emergency to define its candidate for governor. It is likely that Vidal communicates on his political future before the ex-minister gives indications on who will be his candidate in Buenos Aires. “Patricia is waiting for María Eugenia to come down to make a deal with Ritondo“, assures a regular leader of the Vidalista political bunker. “It’s the exact opposite», Specifies a bullrichista operator and explains: « Patricia has plenty of candidates in the provinces. The trouble and the rush belong to Cristian, because If Vidal falls, he has no presidential candidate”.

He dilemma of Bullrich to move forward in a concrete negotiation with Ritondo is what to do with your current candidates. You are Grindetti amigo by Ritondo. Even, both are fans and leaders of Independent. The situation is different in the case of Iguacel and De La Torre. “They have already warned that if Patricia makes a deal with Ritondo in the province, they have a clear path“, reveals a leader of the PRO of Buenos Aires. The former security minister must make a decision that contains her own and avoids political wounds. It won’t be easy.

That of the interior of the province cannot be considered separately from the contestation of the City. A central point in this sense it is Jorge Macri. The cousin of the former president is a candidate for the head of the government of Buenos Aires. At the same time, he is president of the PRO of Buenos Aires and has a provincial structure: has a group of mayors, legislators there leaders that they answer In Larretismo they argue that the Jorgemacrista project of Buenos Aires can tilt as talks for the Buenos Aires election.

There national rise between Larreta and Bullrich-Macri has been consolidated. No sector is ready to give up even one adviser. In the coming weeks, the province of Buenos Aires will become the center of the JxC presidential dispute. Will there be praise for betrayal or an ethics of belief? It’s a political paradox which seems to mark the fate of the opposition.

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