They say that for now he is not going to speak. He didn’t take the bait Patricia Bullrich who wanted to force him to come out and speak out in the middle of the little war that Javier Miley had been organized with PRO governor of Chubut, Nacho Torres. Which does not mean that, when the moment is right, go out to give a round of interviews with friendly communicators. Mauricio Macri For now it remains silent. But he is not standing still: he has been holding meetings like few times before to rebuild the PRO party as soon as he assumes his presidency. The larretistas wonder if this construction will include them or will it be so far to the right that it will leave them out. Own Larreta said that he does not agree with handing the game to Mileiwhile the ghost of an alliance with the Freedom Advances. Paradoxically, no one in the PRO sees it as something imminent. Not even Bullrich’s supporters, who confront both Macri and Larreta on this point, fail to admit that the possibility of an agreement has cooled down.
Macri was never a leader who loved the bagel. On the contrary, during his presidency he despised her. And he called those who did that “dirty work” “orcs” (today he calls the Kirchneristas “orcs”). But these days the former president—removed from the public scene by Milei—has been flirting with leaders like rarely before. One of the meetings that transcended was the meeting he had last week with Francisco Quintana, with whom he met to talk about two topics: Boca Juniors and the PRO.
Without alliance
In that meeting, Macri made it clear to Quintana that He does not see the much-mentioned alliance between the PRO and Libertad Avanza possible, at least in the short term.. The former president attempted this agreement at the beginning of the Milei Government, which would have implied a greater landing in ministries and the presidency of the lower house to Cristian Ritondo, but that negotiation failed. The current one—which was circulated by all the media as the imminence of a Macri-Milei summit— It seemed to end before it began. Macri made it clear that he wants an orderly agreement, not a mess where Milei steals leaders and claims them as his own.
Even Cristian Ritondo, who had a suggestive lunch before the legislative assembly with the President, made it clear to him that there is no possibility of forming an interblock between LLA and the PRO, really. That they will continue with their own identity. So that Milei would not get stuck in the Milanese with puree that she had ordered, Ritondo sweetened it with the idea that the PRO will follow a good part of his laws, as he has been doing until now.
Macri seems to continue hoping that Milei is more in need of his help and not in his current attitude, which rejects anything that is considered “negotiation” and expects total submission from his eventual allies. It is unclear whether this is a product of circumstances or a permanent condition in Milei’s psyche. If the latter, Macri waits in vain for the right moment to negotiate. “Some believe that there may be an electoral alliance in 2025. In this Argentina, who can think about 2025?”says an experienced PRO operator.
Even the supporters of Bullrich, who is already in the Government against Macri’s wishes. They admit that there will not be a merger of the parties, at least for now. However, the idea does not stop hovering and has a real underlying basis: If the PRO goes alone in 2025, you may find that Milei has already engulfed his entire electorate. This is something that is worrying.
Even the proposal to the governors to exchange a fiscal pact for the Omnibus Law can be read as a departure from the negotiations with Macri and the PRO. In two short tweets, the former president with quick reflexes was in favor: “The PRO will be in Córdoba on May 25,” to sign the pact proposed by Milei, he posted.
Just plain
Macri is moving a lot to be president of the PRO and from there take on a new role in the coming years. From the larretismo, they observe without resisting his rise towards the leadership of the PRO: They sense that it is Macri’s way of displacing and definitively giving way to Bullrichwhich will formally head towards La Libertad Avanza or a satellite party will be invented.
“There will be no internal one. Macri is already the president of the PRO. And from there he will have a role in the internal construction of the party. But he does not have the capacity to be a candidate. He is more to put together the PRO that he wants. Although it is not known if that will contain everyone. Specifically, we don’t know if it will include us“, they admit close to Larreta. The differences between the alliance scheme that Macri dreams of and the one that Larreta implemented at the time are patent. The reconfiguration of Macri’s PRO may have expelled people. The former president knows it and advances the same.
The larretistas discount that Macri agrees with them that there does not have to be co-government. That makes them two sectors of the PRO with differences, but united against Bullrich, who does actively seek to bring leaders to Milei (and if possible, the entire party).
But the reality is that Today Bullrich cannot offer the entire PRO to Milei: at most, the part that responds to her. The Minister of Security interprets that she is a majority part, but the alignment of the provincial leaders with Macri does not seem to agree with her on this.
We will have to see what new move Macri makes in his role as frenemy of the current president: half praise him and support him in his initiatives, half be suspicious of his unpredictability and also how he wants to take over his position and leave him without a place on the political scene.
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