Elisa Carrió has chosen a vacation spot for more than a decade: the beaches of Punta del Este. There she usually rests every year at a friend’s house and spends hours on the beach, usually with a cigarette in hand, sunbathing with the sea breeze.
This year was no exception: “Lilita” left for the Uruguayan coast a few days ago and will rest there for several more days, although with her mind set on this year’s elections.
In this context, the former deputy began to analyze the scenario with her smallest group of legislators and leaders. One of the options that she began to consider is to be a pre-candidate for president for the Civic Coalition with the aim of giving more importance to the PASO of Together for Change. Her intention to return to Congress is practically ruled out from the options table. The only thing she is sure of is that she will once once more be a player in the internal opposition, she will try to set conditions or, ultimately, a presidential candidacy that will allow her to sustain her parliamentary bloc of ten in the Deputies.
In the Civic Coalition they assured PROFILE that the candidacy will be defined “later”, but that Carrió is also interested in “raising the quality of the debate”.
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In his mind it is present that, unlike 2015-2019, the next stage for the opposition will be a true coalition government, if it comes to power. Within this framework, one of his obsessions is to maintain unity and build “political friendship.”
That desire also contrasts with the fierce criticism he had once morest the head of the PRO Deputies, Cristian Ritondo, which earned him a seven-month separation from Diego Santilli, Ritondo’s longtime friend. And it was even worth it for María Eugenia Vidal to come out publicly to defend her former Buenos Aires Security Minister and candidate for governor privately and publicly.
In any case, Carrió thinks that, in addition to a real coalition government, it will be necessary to strengthen a future parliamentary interblock that will serve as support if JxC wins, unlike the case of Macri, who only had a third of the Lower House and a fifth of the Senate.
In case of not playing, the woman from Chaco is very close to Horacio Rodríguez Larreta – to such an extent that her Buenos Aires pre-candidate is Fernán Quirós – but also in these weeks she has strongly approached radicalism.
In particular, he had two photos with Gerardo Morales, candidate for president and governor of Jujuy, who, in addition to presiding over the centenary party, has known Lilita very well for more than 25 years. The two agreed to work together with the technical teams thinking, above all, regarding the economic problems that, they believe, Kirchnerism will leave behind. Morales, together with Mario Negri, head of the radical bloc, plus Senator Luis Naidenoff and Senator Carolina Losada were four of the most relevant radical figures who were at Carrió’s birthday in Exaltación de la Cruz at the end of last year.
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At the same time, Carrió is worried regarding the PRO inmate. In particular, the permanent crossed darts that she observes between Larreta and Patricia Bullrich, but also between other leaders. “Today it is more comfortable to talk with the radicals than with the PRO, where one gets angry if you go with the other,” she confides to this newspaper a source from the CC who dealt directly with the former deputy. With Bullrich the relationship is not bad, but more distant than with Larreta. They reconciled in 2021 –following the former Security Minister left the CC to join the PRO–, but they do not show themselves as political partners. However, at the national table, the president of the Civic Coalition, Maximiliano Ferraro, has a good – and regular – relationship with Bullrich.
With Mauricio Macri they have not spoken for a long time. They don’t do it often, but they don’t need interlocutors: she continues to validate him as a leader, although she prefers that he not run for another mandate.
On the other hand, regarding the presence of the CC, it intends to strengthen itself in the City, in the Province, in Córdoba, in Santa Fe, in Catamarca and in Corrientes. He also has an eye on the political rampage in Neuquén, hard work for Ferraro.
From the Uruguayan coast, he was awaiting the progress of the request for impeachment of the four members of the Court. In particular, the statement made by Paula Oliveto, one of his favorite deputies, before the commission arguing once morest Ricardo Lorenzetti.
At the same time, he is preparing a course on education for the Hannah Arendt Institute. The eastern sea helps her think.
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