A little over a month after being left out of the binomial due to her low vote count in the internal white, Raffo considered that opting for the former left-wing unionist “is a risky choice”, at a time when the PN is losing ground in the polls of voting intention for the October generals.
“It’s a risky election. Álvaro himself said so. It’s a risky election, and he’s betting that such a risky election will result in the party winning again. Let’s hope it comes true,” she said categorically in an interview with Arriba gente on Channel 10.
Raffo considered that Ripoll was chosen because of his past as a militant left. “I suppose what Alvaro was referring to was going further to the left, but our party has to consider all sides. We do not define ourselves as left-wing, but as liberals“, he clarified.
The economist, who led the list of blacksmithing In the internal elections of the National Party, she confessed that she was surprised when Delgado told her that Ripoll would be his running mate, resisting the pressure to complete the ticket with herself. “It was unexpected, surprising. It was not what we aspired to nor what we were pushing for, we wanted to win the primaries or join the ticket,” she said, however, she stressed “that when a candidate wins by majority, he makes his decisions and those decisions must be respected.”
The appointment of Ripoll, former general secretary of Adeomas the white vice-presidential candidate, triggered boos among nationalist militants the same night of the announcement. She is also considered by some sectors to be the cause of the fall in the polls of voting intention and the growth, as a counterpart, of the Colorado Andres Ojeda.
Source: Ambito
