Omar Perotti is one of those who best cultivates the ability to speak without saying, elaborate pompous discursive detours to avoid definitions. Much less do they make him say what he doesn’t want. But yesterday, without anyone expecting it, he made an exception and without any question of politics or government at stake, he defined himself, and how! And they all turned to look at him, with various expressions.
In a one-on-one by radio Boing the governor explained at ease about his management, the conditions of the pandemic and the drought, etc. But taken to the terrain of the upcoming general elections, at the national level he entered the arena alone and surprised. He affirmed that on October 22 he will vote for the candidate of the Union for the Fatherland, Sergio Massa, for president of the Nation. But faced with the possibility of a runoff for Patricia Bullrich, of Juntos por el Cambio, or Javier Milei, of La Libertad Avanza, Perotti, without being pressured, sided with one: “In that option, I vote for Milei,” he released.
In this way, the candidate for the first provincial deputy for the Peronist coalition Juntos Avancemos endorsed the option that Maximiliano Pullaro, winner of the internal contest for governor on the United to Change Santa Fe front, had also praised the day before. Of course, the radical anticipated his I vote for Milei, but before an eventual ballotage between Sergio Massa and the libertarian; that is, without his first choice, Bullrich (his original choice for him was the defeated Horacio Rodríguez Larreta).
Perotti also clarified the same. In October he will vote for Massa, but in the event that the Economy Minister is relegated to third place and there is a second round, the governor from Rafael already knows what to do. “I think we’ve already seen Bullrich and I don’t want that stage again. One wants Massa to be the president, and if there is a ballot, Massa goes. But I have no doubts about that option,” he said.
Aware that his statements would bring his own dust and that of others, he added: “Many will be able to say ‘what is he saying’. And I say it because I am sorry: the expectations that were generated with Macri and the best team of the last 50 years and others were not good. And why not give the alternative to someone who poses something differently”, he postulated.
He added antecedents of having added non-partisans to his political team outside “the caste.” “People who come with a more sensitive look,” Perotti went on to say, although he stressed: “I hope that option is not given, we are going to work so that Massa is in that place.”
Perotti’s preference was interpreted close to him as a nod to the libertarian’s Santa Fe voter, but it also made noise. In the afternoon he was forced to clarify and reinforce his party membership. “Neither Bullrich nor Milei. On September 10 we are going to win in Santa Fe and on October 22 it is with Sergio Massa for the Nation,” he posted on Twitter.
From different sectors of the PJ they corrected it with emphasis. The head of the party, Ricardo Olivera, was emphatic: “There are three candidates but two country models, therefore there is no margin for Massa not to be in that eventual second round. I vote for Massa, there is no other possibility, nor do I think in another option”.
The candidate for governor Marcelo Lewandowski subscribed to the same corrective tweet from Perotti: neither Bullrich nor Milei, only Massa.
“We see no other option than Sergio Massa, and that is why we are working to make him our president,” said Florencia Carignano, head of Migration and candidate for national deputy. Her companion on the list, Marilyn Sacnun, stated: “Between Milei and Bullrich it is to choose between Dracula and Frankenstein. Let’s fight with conviction…”, she demanded in a recurring reproach for her with the Rafaelino.
No socialist leader consulted responded, perhaps so as not to have to explain the same about Pullaro.
Carlos Del Frade, on the other hand, expressed “sadness and anger” for the two referents of the PJ and the UCR who “turned in favor of a neo-fascist who will return to the ’90s.” He considered it proof of the existence of the “PUS, the only party in Santa Fe, politics subordinated to economic power,” and hoped that “the progressive sectors of all forces come to constitute a possibility of a broad front that at least shelters us in these times to come.”
