Javier Milei dreams of a great electoral front in the mother of all battles

Javier Milei dreams of a great electoral front in the mother of all battles
Javier Milei dreams of a great electoral front in the mother of all battles

“It’s with everyone.” The 2019 FdT slogan is used in the Pink House of Javier Miley with irony to summarize the strategy they will use in the province of Buenos Aires: LLA plans to form a large front with the PROthe UCR and inorganic Peronism to beat Kirchnerism in the country’s main electoral bastion.

On the other side of General Paz, however, Mileism admits that it needs to come together in a great agreement that is synthesized in the formation of joint legislative lists or, at least, in encouraging parallel Peronist ballots that weaken the organic PJ, whose pen is disputing Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

With the implementation for the first time in history of the single paper ballot, whose effects are still uncertain, in Balcarce 50 They already recognize that they are in dialogue with macristas, radicals and even with mayors facing the Patria Institute to move forward in this direction. “We are going to go together on a list in which, of course, La Libertad Avanza will have control of the strategy,” he confided to Letter P a source of daily consultation for the President.

The Casa Rosada and the pool of Buenos Aires candidates

With the disinterest of Karina Milei to integrate a ballot, the presidential small table evaluates whether the list in the country’s main electoral registry is headed by someone from outside the party. They mention the names of Cristian Ritondo o Diego Santilliboth yellow leaders have good dialogue with the libertarian environment and are key when it comes to shielding the two presidential vetoes. To a lesser extent it appears José Luis Espertwhich although it measures well in the polls, is viewed with disdain and distrust by El Jefe due to its Larretista past.

A fourth name is also usually mentioned regularly on the official list: Diego Valenzuela. The mayor of Tres de Febrero is the current sword of Patricia Bullrich in the province of Buenos Aires, despite the fact that his figure is vehemently resisted in the PRO leadership, to such an extent that the yellow president in that territory, Ritondo, let the advisor know in person Santiago Caputo that he was a person to distrust. “He plays to his own interests and he is going to betray them,” the deputy told him in a reserved meeting they had last Friday.

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Javier Milei and Karina Milei.

A violet leader with influence over the armed forces predicted to this medium that they were not going to prepare the legislative lists based on political dogmatism or suggestions from sectors that are currently in the opposition. “The main objective is to beat Axel Kicillofalthough we can discuss everything else,” summarized the source. The phrase fits perfectly with the strategic proclamation that Caputo repeats every time he can, and that has to do with putting together a broad electoral front that contemplates “everything that is in the center to the right.” Especially in the mother of all battles.

The bridges in Congress, prior to the electoral agreements

It was the President himself who gave the first signs of this strategy by getting into the mud of politics to begin to find common ground with the dialogue opposition. He did it with two meetings with deputies and senators in the Pink Houseand with the remembered dinner at the Quinta de Olivos for the “87 heroes” who helped him shield his first veto.

Milei tacitly enabled his main political operators to sit down and negotiate with some of the leaders of the PRO, the UCR and Peronism. Caputo received on Thursday the 3rd Mauricio Macri in one of their offices, in a cold meeting between the two in which they shared nothing more than a glass of water. But the next day, Ritondo visited the advisor, on a date with a much more unstructured atmosphere, with whiskey involved. All with the idea of ​​bringing positions closer together and shielding his boss’s second veto.

Caputo also picked up the phone to speak with the Chubut governor Ignacio Torresand asked Lule Menem to call other leaders (Raúl Jalil, Alberto Weretilneck y Hugo Passalacqua) who ordered strategic absences and abstentions in the Chamber of Deputies this Wednesday.

With some of these new heroes – especially the PROthe trio of MID of Oscar Zago and the so-called radicals with a wig – the Government wants to form an interbloc, as a preliminary step to the creation of a common electoral front, without this meaning giving up management positions.

The PRO Dilemma

“We are not going to co-govern with the PRO neither now nor ever,” an unobjectionable source of the libertarian administration stated categorically. In the cabinet they recognize that this definition is one of the points that distances them from Macri, who – they say – has insisted for months on proposing names to join the government, such as Guillermo Dietrich in Transport or Javier Iguacel in Energy. Both are former Cambiemos officials who were put on the iron triangle blacklist.

In the PRO they are also not pleased that the head of the party always proposes the same names, without considering what the governors and their yellow legislative blocs want.

With a co-government ruled out, and a Buenos Aires scenario still under construction, the Casa Rosada admits – perhaps unintentionally – that La Libertad Avanza is less competitive in the province of Buenos Aires without the Milei surname on a ballot.

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