Guillermo Francos came out to complement Javier Milei’s 2025 offer to the former president. The chief of staff asked to discuss the elimination of PASO in Congress despite the rejection of the PRO.
Two messages addressed to Mauricio Macri They were broadcast almost simultaneously from Casa Rosada on Christmas Eve. First, Javier Milei clarified to the PRO that an electoral front must include all the districts of the country and, immediately afterwards, Guillermo Francos added that the ruling party has not yet ruled out submitting to Congress the elimination of the PASSEDon the verge of the election year.
It was almost a Christmas specifications from La Libertad Avanza to explore an electoral alliance with the PRO. The main, and unwritten, clause establishes that the President will be the exclusive owner of the pen to prepare the ballots for candidates throughout the country. The second provision of this adhesion contract establishes the elimination of the simultaneous, open and mandatory primaries (PASO), a measure that must go through Congress and that does not in principle have the support of Mauricio Macri’s block of national deputies.
Javier Milei’s pen
The fact is that with the President ordering the ruling party as the undisputed leader, the eventual elimination of the PASO would further fragment not only the PRO, shot at by the leadership of Macri and Patricia Bullrich, but also Peronism with a bifurcated leadership between Cristina Kirchner, head of the PJ, and Axel Kicillof, governor of Buenos Aires.
An unwritten law of Congress establishes that electoral laws are not debated or modified in election years. Without consensus in the room, the Casa Rosada had to suspend the call for extraordinary sessions due to the lack of agreements to vote on the 2025 Budget but also the elimination of the PASO. Although a sector of Unión por la Patria installed with La Cámpora in 2022 the possibility of eliminating the PASO law, in the PRO they promote their own initiative through an initiative by María Eugenia Vidal: open primaries, simultaneous but not mandatory.
Faced with this scenario, La Libertad Avanza has not yet ruled out the possibility of calling extraordinary sessions for February, just four weeks before the start of the ordinary period, with the objective of discussing the electoral reform contemplated by the elimination of STEP and the political party financing system. It was in that context that yesterday Francos, in line with Javier Mileiinsisted on the edge of Christmas on moving forward with the repeal of the primary elections by arguing that “we are talking about savings of more than 150 million dollars.”
Message to the PRO
“Since 2011, the date they came into effect, they have only been an economic cost for the State and a nuisance for all citizens, who have had to vote in the PASO to solve the problems that politicians have not known how to solve in their own parties,” questioned the Chief of Staff.
The Government should gather the support of almost all sectors “dialogues” to advance with these reforms in Congress taking into account that any change in the electoral system requires an absolute majority in Congress, that is, half plus one of the members of the chamber. The objective behind the elimination of the PASO is clear on the part of the Casa Rosada: to plunge the PRO into political chaos when defining candidacies, to attract Macri leaders without Macri to Freedom Advances through Patricia Bullrich and thus reinforce the power of Javier Milei’s pen in front of the PRO electorate.
Source: Ambito
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