“A step to take care of what has been done and improve our quality of life.” The name of the letter released yesterday by the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Fernán Quirós, foreshadows what was an open secret: he had to play in the City for head of government and became the fourth candidate for the PRO, who were they will add a liberal and the radical Martín Lousteau.
In his letter, which he presented on social networks to announce his decision -delayed in the eyes of many Buenos Aires officials-, Quirós recounts his complex pandemic management experience and points out that “this learning gave me the confidence to work on my candidacy… to take care of and promote what has been achieved up to now by Mauricio and Horacio”.
“I thought a lot about this decision… I want to be head of government to focus all the management to achieve the integral well-being of the people,” he adds in his letter. And he adds that he will work “without disqualifying the other.”
In the coming weeks, he will begin to diagram his campaign: he will add communication and strategy teams, more leaders he trusts to give him political volume. Although he has a one-on-one driving style, he will explore the path of his first political campaign that will feature him as the lead.
“To take care of and enhance what Mauricio and Horacio have achieved,” he said
The head of Government believes that the four PRO candidates (Jorge Macri, Buenos Aires Minister of Education, Soledad Acuña, and Deputy Chief Emmanuel Ferrario) must “continue to grow” and that the PRO must continue in the City. The definition, which Larreta reiterates in public and in private, comes to counter the maxim that he could leave the path paved for Lousteau.
But, at the same time, he is focused on the presidential elections: yesterday he held an extended cabinet meeting (with lower-ranking officials) at the Sívori Museum, where he rebuked the larretistas. “Is now. We have the responsibility to assume the place where we are, ”he told them. The motivational talk continued, a couple of hours later, in the bunker on Olazábal street, in Belgrano, before those who work on his campaign.
Returning to the fight in Buenos Aires, Jorge Macri continues to move between meetings with neighbors – less and less with leaders – and a discursive strategy linked, this week, to the defense of security policies, particularly the use of Tasers. The Buenos Aires Minister of Government works in his bunker in Núñez with a speech team and has, of course, the endorsement of the former president. In fact, his cousin turned out to be his campaign manager: Fernando de Andreis, former Secretary General of the Presidency, who joined other former national officials such as Mora Jozami (public opinion), the writer Hernán Iglesias Illa and, after flirting with others, legislator Dario Nieto.
The one who has been adding weekly photos with Larreta is Ferrario, who yesterday launched a video podcast on Spotify where he interviews personalities, from Cachito Vigil and Flavio Mendoza to Carlos Pagni or the creator of Mandinga Tattoo. It is called Leaders in Play and, precisely, it deals with talks linked to the question of leadership, one of the topics that the vice president of the Legislature studied at Harvard. This week he appeared with the community chief in a meeting with 200 applicants to debut on the Buenos Aires lists this year. He came from a photo, the previous week, with María Eugenia Vidal, with whom he has a very close personal and political relationship.
For his part, Lousteau visited the SAME headquarters in Parque Patricios yesterday. The senator threatened to be a candidate for president in the event that the PRO ends up with only one candidate and leaves him second again. That is why he rehearsed that diagonal and at this time he is trying to establish that the Buenos Aires elections should be split from the national ones. Of course, neither Larreta nor Patricia Bullrich would take him as a local candidate.
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