Global Courant
Nine formulas will compete on August 13 in the open, simultaneous and mandatory primaries (PASO) for the head of Government of the City of Buenos Aires. Among them are the two that will make up the internship of Together for Change (JxC) and the unity achieved by Union for the Homeland (UxP).
For the PRO, which has controlled the City for 16 years, Jorge Macri, Minister of Government of the city of Buenos Aires, will present himself. This is a candidacy agreed after an internal survey was carried out, in which the cousin of former President Mauricio Macri prevailed over the current Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Fernán Quirós.
“Today I signed the electoral documents that register my participation as a pre-candidate for the Pro to the Government Headquarters of the City of Buenos Aires. It is the first step. Together we will take all those who come, to continue what is good, improve what that it is incomplete and change what is wrong,” said Mauricio Macri’s cousin on social networks after meeting that requirement.
His contender in the Juntos por el Cambio primary will be the national senator for radicalism, Martín Lousteau, who in the last hours managed to add to his space another noted as a pre-candidate to occupy that place, the current national deputy Graciela Ocaña- de Confianza Pública-, who agreed to decline her application in exchange for being the first on the list of candidates for Buenos Aires legislators on the ballot headed by the former Minister of National Economy.
Martín Lousteau and Jorge Macri will be the pre-candidates for head of Government of Together for Change
“We are going to govern to consolidate all the things that were done well in these years and provide a new imprint to carry out everything that is missing,” promised Lousteau during a recent campaign activity, in a now more friendly tone towards PRO management in the city.
To compete with Ocaña at the top of the ticket of candidates for Buenos Aires legislators, Macri chose Franco Rinaldi, a specialist in Aeronautics. “We are very happy that he joins. A fighter in every way. Brave and committed to his ideas, he will help us work for a more modern and safer Buenos Aires,” said the PRO candidate.
Outside of Juntos por el Cambio (JxC), although with ideological affinities and a common electorate, the Buenos Aires legislator Roberto García Moritán will be the candidate of the United Republicans, anointed to face the electoral contest after Ricardo López Murphy gave up competing in the internal to that seal.
“We have the courage, the desire and the ability to seriously change things. This August 13, let’s build a freer, more orderly and safer City. We deserve a better City and together we will build it,” he said on his Twitter account. husband of the television presenter and model Carolina ‘Pampita’ Ardohain.
In Unión por la Patria (UXP), and its counterpart in Buenos Aires, Unión por la Ciudad, consensus was reached behind deputy Leandro Santoro.
In Unión por la Patria (UXP), and its counterpart in Buenos Aires, Unión por la Ciudad, consensus was finally achieved behind the formula headed by national deputy Leandro Santoro.
Two days ago, Santoro confirmed his candidacy and presented a program with more than 100 ideas, norms and public policies to become “an alternative to govern” and “humanize” the city of Buenos Aires.
“The great debate that we have to have is whether we want to be only the opposition or if we really want to be an alternative to govern,” he emphasized.
For his part, Pedro Rosemblat, who is a member of the Patria Grande Front and is accompanied by legislator Ofelia Fernández, affirmed today before declining his candidacy that “the leadership of macrismo” in the city of Buenos Aires “is terrible” and that ” The most elementary problems were not solved because they didn’t even try because they govern for friends”.
Nito Artaza, despite having appeared on television as a candidate, after midnight argued that he could not “complete the administrative requirements of the Electoral Board” and finally declined his candidacy as Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta did on the edge of the closing.
Ramiro Marra will play in the City of Buenos Aires, for La Libertad Avanza, Javier Milei’s space. Photo: Andres D’Elia
On behalf of Libertad Avanza, the space that leads Javier Milei as a presidential candidate, the current legislator, financial and stock market agent, Ramiro Marra, who expressed when stamping his signature: ” I do it with the conviction to put an end to the piqueteros, the jets and all those who think they can pass over the citizens. We deserve to live in a better country and city, let’s make it a reality.”
For the Workers’ Left Front (FIT), the pre-candidates will be Vanina Biasi, union delegate of the Bordó Association of Non-Teaching Workers of the UBA and national leader of the Partido Obrero, and Jorge Adaro, union secretary of the Ademys teachers’ union; while the New MAS, which did not join the front, will be headed by Héctor “Chino” Heberling, a railway leader.
Finally, Libres del Sur will take Adolfo Buzzo Pipet, who has a background as a candidate for community member and as one of the promoters of the “Assembly of Neighbors for Light”, a group that brings together and organizes residents affected by power outages in the capital district.
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