Martín Menem surprised last night by confessing: “I would like the surname Milei to appear on the ballots in 2025.” La Libertad Avanza designs a STEP between Diego Santilli and José Luis Espert
For the first time in its short existence, Freedom Advances faces the challenge of presenting an electoral ballot without the Milei brand. Both in 2021, when Javier Milei He reached Deputies leading the ballot with Victoria Villarruel, as in 2023 with the presidential consecration of the libertarian binomial, the surname of the head of state was stamped on the ballot as a guarantee to drag candidates, at that time, almost unknown who entered as deputies and senators in Congress. The irruption of Karina Milei As president of La Libertad Avanza at the national level, she could cover that surname deficit in next year’s legislative elections in the country’s main electoral district, the province of Buenos Aires.
Last night, Martín Menem surprised by confessing that “I would like the surname Milei to appear on the ballots in 2025” by highlighting that the general secretary of the presidency and new party leader “works from 6 in the morning until 12 at night” .
Karina Milei 2025?
“No one has more right than Karina to be taken into account, but it is her personal decision,” clarified the head of the Chamber of Deputies. La Libertad Avanza comes from obtaining third place in the 2023 elections in the province of Buenos Aires where Axel Kicillof won the governorship with Néstor Grindetti (Together) secondly and Carolina Píparo (Freedom Advances) in third place. It was precisely the division of the PRO and LLA that allowed Peronism to recover key municipalities such as Lanús, Quillmes and La Platauntil that moment under the control of Macrism.
The possibility that Karina Milei head the ballot in the province of Buenos Aires also arises in the face of the internal noise generated in some sectors by José Luis Espert’s proposal to head the list of candidates for national deputies. The owner of the Budget and Finance Commission is the candidate of Javier Milei but it is tied to the evolution of the economy after the alarming data from Indec on the increase in poverty to almost 53%, the rise in unemployment and an inflation that last month failed to break the 4% monthly floor.
The Buenos Aires suburbs are also a hostile territory for Milei that he had to move the event he was going to organize in the province to Parque Lezama in the City of Buenos Aires. That territory continues to be the main electoral bastion of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Peronism. That is why the possibility of nominating Karina Milei is a high-risk move that would almost imply a plebiscite of the presidential administration in a mid-term election. Given the doubt about the boss’s electoral future, the main certainty in Freedom Advances of the province of Buenos Aires is not to repeat the mistake of 2023 when the division with the PRO led to the victory for Kicillof.
Freedom Advances in the suburbs
In that assembly he worked Sebastián Pareja, owner of the Buenos Aires LLA franchise and Karina Milei’s most trusted man in the suburbs. Espert will begin with some activities in the province accompanied by Patricia Bullrich, the super minister of the cabinet who will go out to recruit leaders of the PRO to join the ruling party. The main objective of the Pink House is to assimilate Diego Santilli, the leader with the highest electoral volume in the province of Buenos Aires. The former candidate for governor of Juntos expands the spectrum of voters for LLA and has even reached fringes of Peronism in addition to a high level of knowledge.
Last week, the party leadership of the Buenos Aires PRO met in Pergamino. There Santilli sent a message to the legislative elections that seemed directed not only at his own party but also at LLA: “Unity is important, being together and not weakening each other, so that what happened in the last few years does not happen to us again.” elections. “We have to recover the province and kick out Kirchnerism forever.” Cristian Ritondo He also warned against Bullrich’s attempts to absorb the PRO into the ruling party that Mauricio Macri’s party “is prepared in the province to compete in 2025 and begin to end populism in the province of Buenos Aires, which has brought us to bottom of the well we are in.”
They tempt Diego Santilli
To strengthen the uncomfortable candidacy of Espert in the main bastion of votes of Peronism, in Freedom Advances They design an eventual primary of the liberal economist with Santilli. A scheme that would involve the assembly of an electoral front so that in the PASSED It is decided who would head the ballot. The experiment that aims not to divide votes ofl PRO and LLA against Peronism is based on the PASO 2021 of Together for Change when Santilli competed against Facundo Manes in the primaries and relegated the radical neurologist to third place on the ballot and then won by a narrow margin in the legislative elections over Victoria Tolosa Paz.
Last night, La Libertad Avanza released a statement in which they warned: “We no longer depend on any electoral alliance to run for elections, but rather it operates independently in six provinces and we are certain that it will do the same in the remaining provinces that make up our country. “We are an unstoppable movement that the international community observes between perplexed and surprised.”
Source: Ambito
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