The word “treason” implies another word: “Revenge”. They are voices that usually go together, continuous, as if one required the other. Many await that explosive conjunction within the PRObetween a spiteful Calabrian (Mauricio Macri) and a Florentine discovery of recent Machiavellian illumination (Horacio Rodriguez Larreta).
Also the beginning of skirmishes and extortions that promise not to compromise the unity of the opposition coalition before the elections. Full cynicism as well as difficult prediction: wars, in many cases, were the product of miscalculations due to the anger of their protagonists.
Not everything is anger despite the word “betrayal”. Perhaps Macri understands the rationality of the maneuver of his former dependent by putting the political patrimony of the PRO in the Federal Capital at risk and, at the same time, preferring his own interest as a presidential candidate: since Rodríguez Larreta can no longer fish in the Pro lagoon and of a certain liberal tendency, he seeks other water reserves to capture radicals, Peronists or people from Carrió for their project. Masterful or ridiculous move on his destiny: opens the doors to a radical occupation in a Buenos Aires territory that the engineer supposed eternally notarized for him, his party and his family (He still tries to impose the dynasty of the last name with the postulation of his cousin Jorge, legally suspected).
The challenge has been an unforeseen event for the “grandeur” of Macri, still wrapped in trifles: an international bridge tournament (on the verge of winning it for those under 80 years of age), a brief trip to Uruguay, various talks, and attendance at the Formula One in the United States. In that idle nap, Rodríguez Larreta hit him by decreeing electoral rules that he did not contemplate or encourage, awakens “revenge”.
True to his titillating style, the head of government pondered a lot before speaking out: he even rehearsed videos with different resolutions prior to the trip to Spain with his partner Milagros —increasingly influential in the capital’s government, say some neglected, also less robotics of the mayor— so that she could explain to the head of the Municipality of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, her expertise in vulnerable lands in the suburbs where she worked when she was an official for María Eugenia Vidal. Rare encounter: the Argentine visitors boast of a social democratic prudence, while the Spanish mayoress is a more challenging right-wing authority. But the campaign can do everything, love too.
Back then, Horacio chose one of the testimonies that he had allowed to mature in secret with which he infuriated Macri, controversial electoral architecture for the primaries. By the way, to load the inks of distancing, he recalled that the former Boquense president, a few days ago, had not withdrawn from the electoral contest out of generosity or will, but because he could never defeat any rival in a second round. More gasoline to the fire, another provocation.
Larreta challenges Macri’s leadership in the Juntos internal: “I govern and make the decisions”
Macrista, angry response: if Horacio throws the PRO into the void, it is out of despair at the loss of votes against Patricia Bullrich and Javier Milei’s relentless bite of his sector (Detail to observe: Milei, with the law in hand, can present himself in the Buenos Aires primaries as a candidate for President and head of Government in both polls. Subject under study in his group).
Regarding this political phenomenon, at a Monday dinner he asked the consultant William Raffo that operates in Brazil for a comparison between the Argentine economist and the past successes of Trump and Bolsonaro. Raffo replied: “You don’t have to look at the candidates but at the movements that they embody due to the boredom of politicking, the incompetence in power and the nullity to manage the economy. Whoever interprets those eruptions will be a winner.” Of course, now Raffo advises Macri.
In your enviroment, Rodríguez Larreta feels euphoric. Finally he cut the umbilical cord with Mauricio, he turned away from his inconsideration and bad treatment. It took her many years and different therapies to survive that hardship. Although, according to Alfonsín, “for you, chubby, it was not bad at all.” Besides, Horacio believes that if I were to become President I cannot repeat the paper of submission that Alberto Fernández revealed with Cristina de Kirchner. He also believes that he would never be able to access the Casa Rosada while Macri puzzled him with statements and supported his rival in the inmate, Patricia. Too obvious that endorsement.
The engineer will also have to spend hours with his head “harmonizer”: he cannot believe that he has pierced the spirit of the head of government so much with his ego. Perhaps the professional will calm an old corrosion revealed on a couple of occasions, when Rodríguez Larreta did not respect him as a former President or as an immediate boss. Each one has his own in the notebook, print resentments.
The back room of Larreta’s decision: heated chats, threats and the crossfire with Macri
Martín Lousteau is in the winners’ box: It was never found so close to the Buenos Aires treasure. He shares with numerous radicals that joy that came from heaven, in particular with his referent Yacobitti and Enrique Nosiglia, known for his dislike of Macri. Curiously, he also celebrates with them and goes arm in arm. Elisa Carrion in the electoral campaign, who got bored of denouncing them and tearing their skin off. But, it is already known, continuing with the Florentines, politics has little to do with morality. Although some sell the opposite.
Others happy without having seen are Alberto Fernandezwho never tolerated that the engineer humiliated him with votes in the Capital, Cristina who hates Macri as an inheritance from her husband Néstor and, in particular Sergio Massa: The Minister of Economy has already called a celebration for the watershed in the Pro, a pruning of the power of those who gave him a demeaning, unforgettable nickname: Ventajita. As if that were not enough, the The new star of the cast is his bosom friend, Horacio.
The move also affects Milei’s people in the district and excites Kirchnerism, a group that will not add another vote with Rodríguez Larreta’s decision but will have to enjoy the PRO show in the front row. They did not think that this new work was going to displace the one they offered with inflation, insecurity and internal skirmishes. Intermission room then to see the next acts of “Betrayal” and “Revenge”intense vaudeville of which the head of government knows better than anyone the nature of the punishment he may receive. There were many years of learning and submission.
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