In the middle of the inmate for the Buenos Aires succession, Rodríguez Larreta returned to show himself with Lousteau

Rodríguez Larreta and Lousteau, this noon

In full discussion about the candidacies in Together for Change (JxC), Horacio Rodríguez Larreta showed up with the radical senator Martín Lousteau in a management activity of the City Government. The leaders were accompanied by the Buenos Aires Minister of Economic Development and Production, José Luis Giusti, and the director of Banco Ciudad, Guillermo Laje, both from the kidney of the former Minister of Economy of the Nation.

The photo was taken this morning during a tour that Rodríguez Larreta and Lousteau made in a company that works on quality analysis in the agricultural chain through image processing and artificial intelligence. “This technique generates jobs in the City and, in addition, exports Argentine talent to the world,” they spread close to Rodríguez Larreta about the details of the visit to that venture in the Belgrano neighborhood.

It was the second photo they took in the year. The first portrait together in 2023 was the famous “Beatle photo”, in Mar del Plata, where the mayor of Buenos Aires, the radical senator, the national deputy of the PRO Diego Santilli, Larretista candidate for Buenos Aires governor, and Gerardo Morales, president of Buenos Aires, were shown. of the UCR and noted for the presidential elections -which also sounds like a possible running mate of Rodríguez Larreta-.

That photo caused a stir in JxC and left a message that strained the relationship between the “Palomas” and the “Halcones” of the opposition coalition. It took place in an electoral context in which the sector linked to Mauricio Macri and Patricia Bullrich, a hard wing of the PRO, questions the political link and the agreement of Rodríguez Larreta with radicalism. Especially in the City, where the “hawking” of the yellow party considered that the mayor of Buenos Aires wanted to “give the City to the radicals.”

The leaders visited a company that works on quality analysis in the agricultural chain.

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The worst moment of that crisis happened in a political context in which Rodríguez Larreta had frozen his relationship with Jorge Macri, his Minister of Government and the candidate for the Buenos Aires succession promoted by the former President and bullrichism. Larretismo could not digest the photo that Macri’s cousin took with the president of the PRO in October of last year.

That situation was reversed a few weeks ago, after arduous discussions. The dialogue between the two improved and, in fact, the head of government shared three photos with Jorge Macri so far in 2023 -during different management tours-. On the other hand, there are the candidates for head of government of the PRO of the larrestista wing.

There, the annotated are three. Fernán Quirós, Minister of Health Soledad, Soledad Acuña, Minister of Education, and Emmanuel Ferrario, First Vice President of the City Legislature. Rodríguez Larreta has a predilection for the doctor, although he will not make it public at the moment. The Buenos Aires mayor’s tactic is to let the four PRO candidates develop their electoral strategies. Before the list closes, the intention is to filter by one of them. There is still no consensus in the yellow party on how they will select the candidate who will compete in the PASO against Lousteau.

Lousteau is the leader of Radical Evolution, a space that has the support and structure of the Buenos Aires UCR apparatus. The main owner of this line is the national deputy Emiliano Yacobitti. The former ambassador to the United States is launched to dispute the JxC STEP as a candidate for head of government. However, in his environment they threaten a possible presidential candidacy. It is a possibility that still does not have details as a result of the electoral uncertainty that the opposition coalition is going through at the national level.

Despite his political agreement with Lousteau, Rodríguez Larreta responds to the pressure of macrismo by assuring that he wants his successor to be one of the PRO candidates. Meanwhile, the head of government plans to appear in the coming weeks with all the Buenos Aires candidates.

In Uspallata they downplay the photo with Lousteau and assure that it was just another management activity. “Radicalism is part of the City Government and Horacio was with Martín today as has happened other times, that we invited him to management activities, just as it happens and will happen with the rest of the PRO candidates,” he tries to explain at the table. policy of the head of government, before the consultation of Infobae.

This morning’s tour had been organized for two weeks. Giusti had visited the development and then suggested that Larreta and Lousteau take a tour together. It was something that at the beginning of this week they already slipped into Buenos Aires radicalism. However, both the larretismo and the PRO speculated on not confirming the activity until last night and released the photos this noon, after having toured the technology company.

Meanwhile, Lousteau had arrived in Buenos Aires last night at dawn from La Pampa, where he traveled to close the campaign in that province. There, the candidate for governor of radicalism is Martín Berhongaray, who will face this Sunday, in the non-mandatory Pampas PASO, against Martín Maquieyra, the PRO candidate.

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