‘All is enough’: Macri and Bullrich’s ally Piras campaign to settle in the province

With messages aimed at right-wing, Christian and conservative voters, Joaquín de la Torre anticipated his start as governor.

October 13, 202216:15

Joaquin de la Torre claims to have arrived first. to the environment Mauricio Macri, Before the former president regained political centrality. that right and positions more conservatives, before libertarians became fashionable. as well as the election campaign for the governorship of Buenos Aires.

A year before the 2023 elections, the provincial senator and former mayor of San Miguel launched a mounting campaign on public roads targeting these positions. “There was a course with Macri” – it is said in some advertising parts. “Bullrich has courage“, is another slogan.

De la Torre’s troops see no contradiction between these two bets. “Although Macri has not determined whether to run, Joaquín’s candidate is Patricia“, they explain. In fact, Bullrich will be accompanied by de la Torre this Saturday in Mar del Plata as he presents his teams and proposals. It will be there too Javier IguazelleCaptain Sarmiento’s intention and gubernatorial candidate like San Miguelino.

But they are not the only posters with which de la Torre is trying to establish himself in the starting grid in the race for governor, a ceiling that already has too many aspirants in Pro alone: ​​the list is swelled by the mayor of Lanus. Nestor Grindet (which also operates under the Bullrich and Macri umbrella), Deputy Christian Ritondo (Maria Eugenia close to Vidal and therefore Macri) and her peer Diego SantillDolphin Horacio Rodriguez Laretta.

De la Torre is behind this platoon, and therefore he is extremely focused on his proposals and criticisms, which go beyond the opposition and sneak inside Macrista: sometimes, Their arrows are more often aimed at the decisions and proposals of Santilli and Rodríguez Larreta than against Kirchnerism..

Vidal knew how de la Torre’s cue had to be when the then-mayor of San Miguel left the renovation front. Serge Massa to be the Minister of Production and the Government of Kambiemo. In 2007, he captured the mayor of San Miguel with the Partido de la Victoria, a force with which Kirchnerism regrouped independent sectors of the PJ. When Vidal “returned” to the capital after the failure of 2019, de la Torre was looking for his own way. He moved closer Miguel Angel Piqueto and his Republican Peronists, but this year he found him next to Macri. Before he got better in the polls.

In Macrista’s busy schedule of gubernatorial candidates, De la Torre has no qualms about positioning himself on the right. In fact, he speaks in favor of it on his social networks Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Georgia Mellon And against what he calls “cultural progressivism.” At some point this positioning would bring him closer Javier Millay. But before he could effectively explore this route, Macri gave him shelter and added him to the meetings at Los Abrojos.

“With Kurtz Bullrich, Miley loses her mind”They explain near de la Torre that from the posters already visible on the avenues and highways of the city and the province of Buenos Aires, he shouts slogans to this audience. from “All are enough” to other less ambiguous slogans such as “I adhere to Christian values“or”You have to set the order“.

“I stick to the earlier onesPray other posters seem to appeal to both voters and themselves: With a year to go before the election, de la Torre is speeding up his installation and will not be left out of the network of candidates who will try to unseat Axel Kitsiloff.