The former president Mauricio Macri is the new president of the PRO after a day of arduous negotiations with Patricia Bullrich’s entouragewho had threatened to present his own list so as not to give up his leadership position within the yellow coalition.
Although Macri was tacitly emerging as the “natural” candidate to succeed Bullrich as the highest authority of the PRO, the founder of the party had to negotiate until the last minute to agree on a unity list and thus avoid the possibility of an internal election in the context of renewal of party authorities.
Macri and the Minister of Security refined the details of the succession and amid tensions they reached an agreement on the distribution of the positions corresponding to the new leadership.
Mauricio Macri and Soledad Martínez, president and first vice president of the PRO. Photo: NA
Soledad Martinez, mayor of Vicente López, won her place on the Board of Directors and will be the first vice president of the PRO; at the suggestion of Bullrich, the legislator Damian Arabia will be the second vice president, while the Santiago reference Facundo Pérez Carletti He will be the third vice president.
The rest of the power ranks were completed with historical leaders of the coalition, as well as governors and mayors.
In this way, the Board of Directors was made up of Maria Eugenia Vidal, Diego Santillithe governor of Chubut, Ignacio “Nacho” Torresthe president of Entre Ríos, Rogelio Frigeriothe mayors Diego Valenzuela y Guillermo Montenegroamong others.
As part of the tense pact between macrismo and bullrichismo, The Minister of Security will serve as head of the Assemblywhile leaving the presidency to the founder of the party.
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Macri and Bullrich, protagonists of an uncomfortable transition in the PRO
Mauricio Macri and Patricia Bullrich.
According to the reconstruction carried out by the agency of Argentine Newsthe Macrista environment vetoed some of the names that the Minister of Security intended to place on the single list, whose deadline expired before midnight.
On the other hand, both the former head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Vidal, two central axes in the political history of the PRO, They decided to get out of the competition and give Macri free rein.
The specific case of Rodríguez Larreta is certainly erratic, since although he is part of the party His figure was relegated since the PRO aligned itself with Javier Milei.
Bullrich bid for the positions below the vice presidencies: the Board of Directors and the National Assembly of the PRO.
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There, the swords of the official who carried out the negotiations were concentrated between the deputy Arabia, Pablo Walter and Juan Pablo Arenaza, three names from the inner circle of the head of Security and who accompanied her throughout her presidential campaign.
Y managed to take advantage of the negotiations because Arabia was elected second vice president and Bullrich herself will be head of the Assembly.
Within this agreement, those who were also involved were the national deputies Cristian Ritondo and Diego Santilli, the party governors, Rogelio Frigerio (Entre Ríos), Torres (Chubut) and the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Jorge Macri, as well as the important mayors such as Martínez (Vicente López), Guillermo Montenegro (General Pueyrredón), Ramón Lanús (San Isidro) and Valenzuela (Tres de Febrero).
The relationship between Macri and the Minister of Security is not at its best and it was to be expected that the discrepancies between both leaders would come to light during the change of authorities.
The gesture of autonomy by Bullrich, who sought to align the PRO as a whole with the Government of President Javier Milei, generated internal disagreements and discomfort, although Mauricio Macri maintains good harmony with the libertarian leader.
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