The electoral split of the PRO in the City buries the possibility of an electoral agreement with La Libertad Avanza. And he anticipates friction in the province of Buenos Aires. Open challenge to Javier Milei.
“After a long time, now we set the agenda for them.” One of the main collaborators of Jorge Macri The government of the City of Buenos Aires is enthusiastic about the relaunch of the PRO management that included the electoral split and a project to suspend the PASO for Buenos Aires legislators. This is a declaration of war on Freedom Advances in the base district of Mauricio Macri which also anticipates storms in the armed opposition to Axel Kicillof in the province of Buenos Aires.
“We have the 40 votes to eliminate the PASO in the Legislature, I don’t know how they are going to do it in Congress. We set the agenda for them now,” adds the CABA official when asked by Scope. In the government of Jorge Macri they celebrate having anticipated with the suspension of the PASO, scheduled for April 27 in the City of Buenos Aires, while Javier Milei does not achieve consensus in Congress to call extraordinary sessions and include the elimination of the primaries open, simultaneous and mandatory at the national level.
Request from the PRO to Javier Milei
The head of the Buenos Aires government even publicly asked the President to also advance at the national level with the suppression of the PASO, a measure that does not achieve unanimous consensus within the block of national deputies led by Cristian Ritondo. A public request that actually reveals the weakness of La Libertad Avanza to articulate an agreement in Congress, almost a return of kindnesses after the libertarian bloc that responds to Karina Milei in the Buenos Aires Legislature, voted against the 2025 Budget sent by Jorge Macri.
The open pit fracture of the PRO and LLA in the City of Buenos Aires is projected over the province of Buenos Aires. Mauricio Macri enabled Diego Santilli to begin moving as a PRO candidate in the province of Buenos Aires. Those movements were almost non-existent. The former gubernatorial candidate has his own electoral volume and measures his steps before explicitly joining the conflict that Macri maintains before Milei with a Buenos Aires projection. “I respond to my electorate,” is the phrase with which Santilli resists immersing himself in the electoral war between the PRO and LLA.
If the breakup scenario also materializes in Buenos Aires territory, and Santilli does not accept the challenge of leading the PRO ticket, Macri has a plan B. A mayor of the province of Buenos Aires with aspirations of being governor. It is about Guillermo Montenegrocommunal chief of General Pueyrredón. “In the province of Buenos Aires we are going to set up a front with the UCR and with sectors of non-Kirchnerist Peronism,” they advance from the Macrismo. An eventual Buenos Aires fracture that benefits Axel Kicillof who in 2023 won the governorship based on the division of the opposition electorate between Néstor Grindetti (PRO) and Carolina Píparo (La Libertad Avanza).
The excuse of Freedom Advances
In the midst of the electoral calculations, and with the excuse of a tax saving of 200 million dollars, in Casa Rosada they felt the blow of Jorge Macri’s announcement in the City and raised a possible call for extraordinary sessions for February. It was one of the topics that was addressed in last week’s meeting at Casa Rosada between Milei and the UCR bloc with the presence of Rodrigo De Loredo.
Since the intervention of the PRO in Córdoba, Macri is preparing to compete against La Libertad Avanza also in that province. With Luis Juez increasingly closer to the ruling party and with the possibility of being voted as the new provisional president of the Senate in the preparatory session in February, Macri is rushing an electoral agreement with the radicalism of Córdoba to confront the forces of heaven on the same ballot in the October legislative elections.
To vote on the elimination of the national PASO in Congress, a special majority is required because it is an electoral issue. To build that number in the chamber, votes from Peronism are needed. In the Unión por la Patria bloc they do not rule out adding adhesions in a possible call for extraordinary sessions in February. “UxP still has no position taken on the elimination of the PASO, first we wanted to discuss the Budget,” was the definition of José Mayans, head of the Peronist bloc in the Senate.
Source: Ambito
