With the sight on the elections unfolded from the province of Buenos Aires, the Pro Buenos Aires He began to seek an internal agreement to specify the alliance with the president’s libertarians Javier Mileibut wants to expand society and add the mayors of the UCRa proposal that complicates the negotiation and that has the seal of Mauricio Macri.
Headed by its president, the national deputy Cristian Ritondothe Pro Buenos Aires made a summit on the last Tuesday in which there was a broad consensus to Ally with freedom progresses (lla)but not yet a total agreement. The Resistances, although minority, are from the sector aligned with Macri and his cousin Chief of Buenos Aires Government, Jorge Macri.
During the meeting the mayor of Mar del Plata, Guillermo Montenegrohe stood initially by raising the need to join forces with Lla to face Kirchnerism. The deputy Diego Santilli He supported and pointed to the elections for the Buenos Aires Legislature of September 7. The same did Ritondo, who is convinced that “Peronism will be unified Beyond their fights “, alluding to the internal between the governor, Axel Kicillof, and Cristina Kirchner.
While among the 30 leaders who participated There was enough agreement, the handbrake was put by the mayor of Vicente López, Soledad Martínez, very close to Jorge Macri, who along with a group of legislators stated that he did not have to hurry. As confirmed by party sources to iprofesionalthey did not rule out an agreement with LLA but asked to “continue evaluating all the options and the panorama.”
How does the idea of adding the UCR influence the pro negotiation with Javier Milei?
Martínez’s group also raised the importance that, in any type of alliance, the Pro maintain your “territorial power”, which was accepted by everyone present. Ritondo marked this point from the meeting, when he highlighted before the press that the yellow party has “great representation” in several districts, even with “half of the Deliberative Council.”
In this framework of partial agreement and territorial protection, they agreed Convene a new meeting with more than 300 councilors from all over the province. But the novelty of the summit was also the proposal to also add the mayors of the UCR, who have a wide deployment inside Buenos Aires.
That idea is promoted by Macri as indicated to iprofesional A s source, which slid that “is like an attempt to recreate together for change, but with libertarians.” The play becomes more complex the negotiation with the Casa Rosada, who seeks an agreement with leaders -As Ritondo, Santilli and Montenegro- and not between matches. A form of exclude from the conversation to the former president.
Attentive to that alleged objective of Karina Milei and Sebastián Parejaleaders of the electoral assembly of Lla, which is complemented by the idea that the eventual alliance is given through the incorporation of PRO figures to a list that takes the LLA seal and not a new denomination, Macri moves his chips to prevent the yellow party from being diluted in the Violet.
Macri’s message to the libertarians, with the Buenos Aires choice in the sights
The former president endorsed the Summit of the Pro Buenos Aires and days ago already gave the approval to agree with the libertarians in the province. He delegated the negotiation in Ritondo, who maintains fluid dialogue with the Casa Rosada and already had, together with Santilli and Montenegro, two very publicly advertised meetings with Karina Milei and a couple.
However, Macri wants Wait for the result of Buenos Aires elections that will take place on May 18 and that faces the Pro and Lla, while the Buenos Aires referents have their sights set in the September elections. The provincial schedule plays the former president in favor, since alliances should be presented in July and lists in August.
This Wednesday Macri visited Mar del Plata and was photographed with Montenegro and Ritondo. A unit of unit against Milei’s space in the middle of the Buenos Aires negotiation to which a strong phrase added: “The leaders who priced were already bought,” the former president launched. Everything is part of the same message: it wants the agreement between matches and not with loose leaders of the PRO.
As head of the Pro Buenos Aires, Ritondo also showed signs of coinciding with that approach. “Always alliances are from matches,” he said before a press consultation after the top of last Tuesday. The attempt of Adding an electoral front with lla also the radical mayors are part of that strategy.
The radical internal, Milei’s problem and Ritondo’s balance
The idea adds complexity to the negotiation with Lla for several reasons. On the one hand, if the UCR mayors were added libertarians would find a strong counterweight in the assembly of the alliance, with the PRO and the radicals with territorial power on the other side of the table.
This would be key because Milei’s space does not have competitive candidates for the province of Buenos Aires at the local or national level, with the exception of the deputy José Luis Espertwhom the president himself raised several times as a possible applicant.
On the other hand, the Radicalism also has its inmates for the positioning in front of the Milei government. The head of the Buenos Aires UCR is the senator Maximiliano Abad Until the judicial fight for driving with the wing of the president of the party at the national level is resolved, Martín Lousteau. That scenario already marks that the idea of adding radical mayors will open a difficult internal discussion.
In spite of everything, most of the Buenos Aires leaders of the PRO want to hurry the agreement with lla. Ritondo seeks to balance. On the one hand, he stressed that the national government has shown “a lot of will” to “have an alliance” when “someone like Karina Milei or the president himself” feels at the table “and, on the other, he said that” Mauricio accompanies “and added:” We are a team. “
In this way, elections unfolded of the province of Buenos Aires They hurry to PRO A Deliberate on the format of an eventual alliance with the president’s libertarians Javier Milei that does not imply a break. The idea of adding to UCR intendants And the effort of Mauricio Macri So that the party does not disarm by the collection of individual leaders are now the central axis of the negotiation.
