Jorge Macri’s Absence Sparks Tension in Buenos Aires Cabinet Meeting Amidst PRO Party Struggles

2023-06-08 03:01:00

Jorge Macri his absent conspicuously this Wednesday at the first “expanded” cabinet meeting of the City of Buenos Aires to which he was summoned as a confirmed candidate of the PRO. The former mayor of Vicente López thus avoided crossing paths with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta for the photo, in the midst of the tensions that the yellow party is going through at the national level. The seat that he had reserved in the Teatro Colón, in the front row, was empty for the entire hour in which the meeting took place, which he arrived at towards the end. Although from his environment they assured that “he had already warned that he would be late due to other commitments assumed”, the explanation was not enough to clear up the speculation regarding the evident differences that mark his relationship with the head of government.

Since he was crowned as the Buenos Aires PRO candidate, ten days ago, the former mayor of Vicente López barely participated in a handful of events together with Rodríguez Larreta, which complicates the construction of his profile as a continuity of the current management. In fact, his candidacy was promoted in tandem by Patricia Bullrich and his cousin Mauricio Macritoday more confronted than ever with the Buenos Aires president.

The one who gave the present was the radical Martin Lousteauwhich plays strongly in favor of Larreta in the idea of ​​expanding Together for Change towards Federal Peronism of Juan Schiaretti. “Whoever is the leader who succeeds me, and here I see Martín, we are going to continue transforming Buenos Aires”said Larreta, in another clear gesture of his preference for the Evolution senator over Macri himself.

The meeting was also a sign that part of the Buenos Aires cabinet will play in favor of the radical, instead of betting on the candidate of his own party. Present were, among others, the Ministers of Health, Fernan Quirosand Security, Eugenio Burzaco; In addition to the Secretary General and International Relations, Fernando Straface, one of the leaders closest to Larreta. Also present were the Chief of Staff, Philip Michaeland officials like Waldo Wolff y Martin Redrado.

Larreta took advantage of the meeting to insist on the need to expand JxC towards leaders like his speech, Rodríguez Larreta insisted on the need to expand JxC, adding leaders like Schiaretti but also as José Luis Espert y Daisy Stolbizer. “If we do not broaden the coalition, the transformations that Argentina needs will not be able to be carried out,” he said.

Lousteau will continue betting on more photos with the current Head of Government and also with the second and third lines of the Buenos Aires cabinet, with the idea of ​​capitalizing on the continuity of the current PRO management, something that Macri has complicated by the inmates of his own party.

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