Macri and Vidal in the new offices of the national deputy in Retiro
María Eugenia Vidal, national deputy and presidential candidate for Together for Change, inaugurated this Wednesday together with Mauricio Macri their new offices in the Retiro neighborhood of Buenos Aires, where they will establish their campaign bunker with a view to this year’s elections.
Although it was a “closed activity”, the legislator shared an image with the former president in his new office. She did it through her social networks, in which she took the opportunity to thank Macri for accompanying her, just on the day scheduled for another PRO referent such as Horacio Rodríguez Larreta to announce his presidential candidacy.
“Thank you Mauricio for joining us today and for always trusting. I KNOW THAT YOU CAN, because I believe in our team, I believe in my country and I believe in the Argentines. We are going to recover the future”, wrote the national deputy.
According to sources close to the presidential candidate, during the tour, Vidal and Macri spoke with the deputy’s work team about the different social and economic problems that the country is going through. And they reviewed the main measures in which the legislator and her advisors are working related to work, education, economy and security.
For now, Vidal will compete in the Juntos por Cambio internship with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich (Photo: Twitter)
Vidal, who this 2023, was already on tour in La Pampa, Córdoba and in different cities on the Atlantic Coast, is the third PRO leader who confirmed his aspirations to reach the Presidency in the next elections. In fact, next week she will be present in Rosario, Venado Tuerto and Rufino.
“Today I was at the María Eugenia campaign offices, where we shared our concerns about the difficult time we are going through in Argentina. Despite everything, we both feel hopeful optimism about the coming change. It is encouraging to know that we have committed and serious competitors like her, ”Macri wrote on her social networks after the meeting. The former president arrived at Vidal’s bunker with Darío Nieto and Gustavo Gómez Repetto, his spokesman.
Mauricio Macri used his networks to share the visit to María Eugenia Vidal’s bunker and assured that “it is encouraging to know that we have committed competitors”
Until now, Vidal will have to compete in August in a PASO within the opposition coalition in which the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, is already launched; the holder of the PRO, Patricia Bullrich; and the president of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) and governor of Jujuy, Gerardo Morales.
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Starting at 8:00 p.m. this Wednesday, a photo of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta will begin to circulate on social networks, where he will confirm his presidential candidacy.
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta will confirm this Thursday his nomination as a candidate for President of the Nation
Likewise, tomorrow, Thursday, he will broadcast a video with a speech focused on transmitting a vision of government, which will seek to appeal to epic and emotionality. There she will talk about how he prepared throughout his life to become president and will give an anti-rift, unity and consensus message.
The video will be released at noon and, in the afternoon, he will take the opportunity to give a press conference on Tres de Febrero, where he will lead a campaign tour. The official announcement coincides with the launch of its Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires references. Diego Santilli and Fernán Quirós.
Mauricio Macri maintains his uncertainty regarding whether he will finally be a presidential candidate and limits himself only to having meetings with coalition leaders or supporting provincial candidates. Likewise, his visit to the new Vidal bunker represented his first political activity in Buenos Aires.
Mauricio Macri has not yet confirmed if he will be a candidate for President
Between January and February, the ex-president held meetings with Larreta, Bullrich and the referent of Republican Peronism, Miguel Ángel Pichetto at his house in the country Cumelén, in Villa La Angostura, and traveled to La Pampa to give his support to the PRO candidate Martín Maquieyra , who last weekend lost the election to the radical Martín Berhongaray.
The opposition coalition, Together for Change, will have two summits this Thursday to analyze the continuity of the electoral strategy in the province of Buenos Aires. One will take place in La Plata, to which the Buenos Aires referents of the PRO are summoned, while in the town of Rauch the Forum of Radical Mayors will do the same.
The La Plata summit will be a continuation of the meeting in Olavarría. The mayors will once again bring to the table the issues of concern in their districts (inflation, lack of employment, insecurity), the distribution of shared funds, the relationship with the government of Axel Kicillof and the Frente de Todos in the Buenos Aires Legislature and “ surely the talk of ‘levels Y’ will come out in the districts” -assure the PRO-.
Tomorrow’s conclave will have the particularity that it will be the next day that Larreta launches his candidacy for the presidency, and after Bullrich and María Eugenia Vidal ratify their presidential aspirations, raising the tension in the opposition coalition.
For its part, radicalism will do the same with the mayors’ forum that was convened for this Thursday in Rauch. Maximiliano Suescún will be the host of the first meeting of the year attended by some thirty community leaders of the UCR from the municipalities of the interior of Buenos Aires with the aim of debating the campaign strategy from the relationship with Nation and Province, the definition of pre-candidates to succeed to Kicillof, even the confrontations that can be unleashed with the PRO in the PASO of certain municipalities.
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