A little more than two months after his arrival at the Casa Rosada, the president Javier Miley denied that there is a possibility that there is a “co-government” with the PRO to reinforce the management of La Libertad Avanza. However, the internal struggles for power with former president Mauricio Macri and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich continue to generate noise.
The president denied the version and assured that it is a “a lie invented by journalists who respond to politicians who pay for it.”
However, in dialogue with radio La Red, He said that “with the passage of time” the PRO and Libertad Avanza “will converge” thanks to the “ideological rearrangement” generated by the treatment of the ‘Bases’ law in the Chamber of Deputies.
President Javier Milei.
Patricia Bullrich pointed out against Mauricio Macri: “I represent the majority of the PRO”
Along the same lines, some PRO leaders such as Diego Santilli nor do they rule out that there may be a “parliamentary convergence” between both parties in the coming months.
“Our deputies are going to accompany the DNU and the Bases Law. That is the path for me,” said Santilli, who also added that he does not see “a fusion process” between La Libertad Avanza and the PRO because that would mean that a party ” absorbs the other”, but does see an alignment between both spaces.
The PRO presidency in the spotlight
There is a theme that underlies these discussions and it is the uncertainty over the presidency of the PRO. In March, the party founded by former president Mauricio Macri will go to elections to decide the leadership and Santilli announced that the former president wants to occupy that place again and that he has “every right” to do so.
In addition to this, days ago provincial presidents of the party released a letter in which they expressed their support for Macri to preside over the space and replace Patricia Bullrich.
“Mauricio is the one to lead the PRO unit“, is the title of the letter that was distributed by the party leaders of all jurisdictions. This would give Macri greater political centrality after his Full support Milei generated a fracture in space, which suffered internally as did her relationship with Together for Change.
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“There is more foam than anything else”, Patricia Bullrich’s tense posture
The member of the La Libertad Avanza cabinet and who is currently in charge of the PRO, Patricia Bullrich, showed a little more tension. The minister defined the eventual entry of political force into the Government as “foam”, arguing that, according to her perception, this is already happening in practice.
The official, who generated controversy by immediately endorsing the libertarian candidate after his defeat and then formally joining his government, reaffirmed her position of not having to ask “anyone’s permission” and stated that she represents the majority faction of the PRO due to his victory in “an open internal”.
“All this foam that the PRO is lining up, There is more foam than anything else. Or maybe it has to do with the fact that on March 19 there are elections in the PRO and there is a change of president,” he said on radio Network.
Javier Milei, Mauricio Macri and Patricia Bullrich on the night of the libertarian’s presidential victory.
Regarding the alliance between both parties, he explained that “the agreement has worked, that is why the PRO voted massively for the law, in particular and in general.”
The former presidential candidate expressed that she does not know if Macri intends to preside over the party and added that she only informs herself through what she reads in the newspapers, making it clear that she does not maintain direct communication with the former president.
Later he was blunt when answering repeated questions about the position of his political boss between 2015 and 2019: “I don’t want to do an interview talking about Macri, I’m not interested in doing an interview being Macri’s psychologist, I’m not. “I’m not interested. If you want an interview with Macri, talk to Macri,” he said, making clear the tension between the two.
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