POLITICAL OVERVIEW OF NEUQUÉN
The imperfection of political constructions has a low importance and will only be looked at by economists following April 16
The one on April 16 will be the 11th election to decide who will be the governor of the province of Neuquén since the return of democracy in 1983. Unlike the 10 previous ones where there were freelance and internal appointments, this year’s will be an external one in the Neuquino Popular Movement with a disoriented opposition, which paints a different scenario.
A Three weeks following the closing of the presentation of the lists, a frantic mechanism is observed for seducing small political spaces, which the ill-considered define as SMEs, under the premise that if they contribute even a small percentage of votes, they can climb the ladder to the top of provincial power.
A competition that has comic edges as happened with a leader of a housing cooperative in Neuquén who had the photo with the blue ruling party of the MPN with Marcos Koopmann and the following week Rolando Figueroa raised his hand because he offered to have a collector to be a provincial deputy.
The disorientation of the opposition parties to the MPN, which atomized Together for Change, exposed the ambivalence of the Justicialista Party within the Frente de Todos. For today, a formal definition is expected, although the delay played once morest him, the allies made a separate ranch, the faithful do not take off their shirts, and the newcomers do not quite understand if they have to be here or there.
The investigator Gabriel Raffart, author of the book The MPN and the Others, wrote: “The most realistic and less successful know that at election time anything goes and if it is possible to add, the better. Alchemy can be imperfect. What matters for the allies is what results from it”. The opinion was in 2005 when a coalition was presented to confront the government of Jorge Sobisch.
So when you do the traceability of leaders who today are with the blue sector such as UNE or with the Community such as PROit is only concluded that the link is not perfect because what they have in the north is the result of April 16.
A formal definition of the Justicialista Party is expected in the kicked anthill that the opposition political world of the Province was transformed.
How many collectors will show up? Counting them now is like trying to count the pieces of glass in a shattered windshield.
To the rebuff that the Great Front made to Ramón Rioseco, was added the pragmatism of the candidate for mayor of Neuquén Juan Peláez who, following receiving the support of the cutralquense, resigned from his position at the UCR and received “a proposal that he might not reject” from Figueroa. Election time, anything goes.
The kicked anthill of the Neuquén political world reaches, as can be seen, also the blue ruling party of the MPN that boasted of having all the positions elected in perfect compliance with the electoral rules.
the quartermaster Mariano Gaido felt like he had to take a tablespoon of castor oil -it is very bitter and was used as a purgative- when they “invited” him to tie the municipal elections with the provincial ones, he had to put aside his plans to make his own way.
So, as if the anthill was not stirred the parallel construction of the re-election began with its own collectors of councilors.
If the outside of the MPN pushes to propose a scenario of polarization that sounds like a siren song for the disoriented opposition, at the municipal level in the city of Neuquén, the bid is no less given that the first time Gaido came to power He did it with no less than 14 diverse collection lists.
They say that there won’t be that many because in the collection of votes from four years ago, only threealthough now more councilors are elected because for the first time the entire collegiate body is being renewed.
The capital election is considered as of relative importance in the provincial count and the leaders of the almost invisible political groups have their cell phones open and with a full battery, waiting for “a proposal that you will not be able to reject.”