2024-03-20 03:01:00
It was a negotiation until the last minute. Mauricio Macri managed to stay with the presidency of the PRO, but his negotiators had to go through the entire closing of lists to convince Patricia Bullrich not to present her own list. The last hours were marked by a discussion about one of the names, the bully Damián Arabia, whom Macri did not want in leading the party. Two of the central figures, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and María Eugenia Vidal, chose to stay out of the race, although for different reasons: Vidal aligned with the former President (in fact, she obtained a place on the council) and Larreta because she does not convince him. that the game is going towards Javier Milei. Finally they agreed that Macri presides over the National Council of the PRO and Bullrich, the national assembly.
There were hours of intense discussion. On Macri’s side, those who had to sweat the shirt were Humberto Schiavoni and Fernando de Andreis. The first, above all, has decades of experience in list closings and tried to remain calm at all times. De Andreis, on the other hand, from time to time showed his annoyance with the intransigence of the bullrichist negotiators, who were three: Juan Pablo Arenaza, Pablo Walter and Arabia. To balance the number, Macri’s former private secretary and Buenos Aires legislator Darío Nieto eventually joined.
To dog face
The negotiations were not easy at all. The bullrichistas even threatened to present their own list. There was even talk of a PRO mayor who would confront Macri. He was not going to be able to beat him, but he was going to break with the idea that the leader can align the troops to reach the presidency of the party.
From the outset, Bullrich warned that he wanted 50 percent of the places in the leadership of the party. Macri sent word that he thought it was nonsense. He sought to balance the positions between governors, mayors, provincial leaders and other party leaders. None of half the charges for his former lieutenant.
When they saw how the fight was growing, both Vidal and Larreta chose to leave the scene. In this case, Vidal chose to be aligned with Macri. Larreta, on the other hand, was tempted with some charge by Macri, but he did not want to know anything. The former head of Government made it clear that the course of following Milei does not convince him at all. And, although today he is not going to leave the PRO, it cannot be ruled out that he will do so in the future. Not being part of the driving leaves you with your hands free.
Everything became even more complicated when Macri tried to veto names that Bullrich proposed: they were going to give him the second vice presidency, but Macri did not accept that that place would be occupied by Arabia. That was when the negotiations entered an intermission and the versions of two lists began. “What happens is that Mauricio wants a club of friends. Don’t count on us,” they said next to Bullrich.
It took them all of Tuesday (the last possible day to define the single list) to get the negotiations back on track. By late afternoon, both sides admitted that everything was “90 percent” closed. “But what’s missing can blow everything up in the air,” they said on Bullrich’s side.
How was it
In the end, around nine at night, there was an agreement. The president will be Macri, as he wanted, but he had to give Bullrich the presidency of the party assembly. In the council, finally Soledad Martínez, Vicente López’s mayor, will assume the first vice presidency representing Jorge Macri. And the second vice, despite all the resistance, will be for Arabia.
The 18 members of the PRO were divided into three parts: those of Macri, those of Bullrich and those of the governors, who are established as a separate power. Among those from the City of Buenos Aires, there will be De Andreis, Soledad Acuña (for Macri), and Vidal, while Bullrich retained Buenos Aires leaders such as legislator Silvia Imas in Arabia.
For the province of Buenos Aires, there will be Diego Santilli and Guillermo Montenegro with their own weight, and the mayor of Tres de Febrero Diego Valenzuela. For his part, Bullrich located Pablo Walter (although he is also referenced in Ramón Lanús, mayor of San Isidro) and there is also the mayor of 9 de Julio María José Gentile.
Another third belongs to the rest of the provinces: the governors Nacho Torres and Rogelio Frigerio were located there. Bullrich placed Laura Rodriguez Machado, while Macri kept Federico Angelini. Hebe Casado (Mendoza’s vice president) was also there.
“Bullrich was left with few places: he wanted 50 percent and kept 20,” they indicated near Macri. The key was the place that the mayors and governors claimed for themselves.
In or out
The former president of the PRO sought to gain ownership of the party assembly, to continue having a place to show to President Milei. Her main objective is for the PRO to either merge or form a front with La Libertad Avanza.
Macri does not rule out this, but considers that support for Milei has to be from a distance. After he tried and failed to put together a co-government, Macri feels more comfortable in a place from which he cannot be dragged in case Milei’s management catches fire and collapses.
Furthermore, the former president has many criticisms of how things are being managed in various areas of government: he considers that there is serious paralysis or directly that there are parts of the Government that never started. He blames the Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse, for this. The contempt, it seems, is mutual.
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