The head of the Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, has a few days ahead of him full of negotiations and analysis in order to define what will be the strategy that he will implement in the election that will mark his succession, in the midst of constant tusslings between the macrismo and Martín Lousteau.
The main decision that the Buenos Aires president must make has to do with the date of the local election, that is, if he keeps it on the same day as the national ones or if he unfolds and chooses another Sunday to go to the polls.
in six days, on April 13, the formal term expires for Rodríguez Larreta to define the voting dateaccording to article 57 of the Buenos Aires Electoral Code, which establishes that the call must be set 120 days before the STEP.
From this determination a point of conflict arises among the members of Buenos Aires Together for Change: the voting format.
What Martón Lousteau says
The sector that leads Martin Lousteau, the radical candidate registered for the internship with the PRO, assures that an election attached to the national one could harm him because it would not leave him in equal footing. The fear of the leader of Evolución is to reach October without a UCR presidential candidate who can win votes for him, something that the PRO applicant would have – in case of winning the internship.
To avoid this situation, Lousteau proposes splitting the election or establishing a “recurrent doubling”that is, to vote for President and Head of Government the same day but with different systems.
A survey gave Martín Lousteau as the main candidate in the City and put the Macri on alert
The Macri and Bullrich against
The Minister of Government and pre-candidate has already expressed himself against this system, Jorge Macri, who hopes to be the only PRO applicant left standing to fight the internal with the UCR.
The refusal to modify the way of voting is also accompanied by the former president Mauricio Macrithe head of the party, Patricia Bullrichand the deputy María Eugenia Vidal.
“Changing the electoral system in an electoral year is the most undemocratic thing. Are we going to do what we said in all the provinces that should not be done?” Bullirch stressed this week when asked about that possibility.
For macrismo, the best option is to go with a sheet ballot the same day as the national elections, but Lousteau pressures and threatens to resort to Justice, endorsed in the local Electoral Code.
The decision is in the hands at this time of the Buenos Aires head of government, who beyond doing balance between the Buenos Aires actors and their alliances, he must prioritize which is the strategy that best suits him for his presidential project.
During the long weekend, he has no official activities planned and will rest with his family, to then face the week of definitions leading up to April 13, and for later there will be the revelation of another great unknown: who will be the only candidate who will have the PRO in the City?.
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