Macri’s mysterious game that baffles Patricia

What do you play Mauricio Macri? The question is the most repeated in the campaign team of Patricia Bullrich, but has no answer. What’s more, the presidential candidate of Together for Change has resigned himself to not waste any more time looking for the motivations behind the former president’s movements.

The last episode occurred at the beginning of this week. Macri answered questions from Harvard University Politics students, in a cycle similar to the one that Cristina Kirchner immortalized a decade ago when he mocked that same audience, which he disparagingly compared to the University of La Matanza.

““This is Harvard, guys.”it remained like a Cristina audiovisual meme before memes existed. It was the backlash of the then president after denying the existence of the exchange rate and poverty. Kirchnerist denialism.

Macri, like all presidents and former presidents who attend the US model university, was asked by the students with some questions. For this reason, they insisted on three occasions about What Together for Change should do if the winner of the elections were the opponent Javier Milei. It was then that he uttered the phrase that inflamed Patricia.

“We are going to win the elections, but in case that does not happen and he (Milei) wins the elections, I hope that our coalition will support any reasonable reform in Congress so that Argentina leaves behind this cheating system in which we are trapped.”

The unwritten manual of electoral campaigns says that You never have to answer what the strategy will be if the opponent wins. That is what Macri did, precisely, revealing his secret desire. Let Together for Change vote for Milei on the necessary laws if the one defeated on October 22 is Patricia Bullrich.

The candidate exploded when she read Macri’s statements on the news portals. ““Patricia no longer knows if Mauricio is an idiot or a son of a bitch.”, dramatizes one of Bullrich’s trusted people. “We are breaking our backs to overcome the result of the PASO; We are traveling all over the country; “She went to the presidential debate with the flu and dysphonia, and on top of that we have to go out to repair Macri’s damage?”

That is precisely what Patricia Bullrich did on the first radio station that put a microphone within reach. “I consider that it is not appropriate at this moment for me to say something like that; When we have a fundamental point for us, it is not the time to discuss it. I will talk to Mauricio Macri about why he makes a definition of this type,” he explained without hiding his annoyance.

The fundamental point that Bullrich was referring to is political strength which they consider the biggest difference they believe they have with Milei: governance. That is to say, the possibility of having up to eleven governors throughout the country (five radicals who have already won in their provinces and six from the PRO if Jorge Macri wins in the City, Néstor Grindetti in the Province and Rogelio Frigerio in Entre Ríos). Already We must add a parliamentary bloc of a hundred deputies and nearly thirty senators.

“With that parliamentary capital and governors, we cannot speculate if we are going to vote on Milei’s laws as Mauricio said.”, is the reproach they make of Macri’s statements at Harvard. The former president also received complaints from Patricia, to whom He called minutes later to tell him that his backup is the same as always. He even published a tweet reinforcing the idea. But the damage, once again, had already been done.

On other radios and on other news sites, The leaders of Together for Change spread their anger and confusion. The radical Martín Tetaz said: “Instead of campaigning, he is out of the country and on top of that he wants to set the stage for the block of legislators that he does not manage.”. The liberal José Luis Espert, faithful to his style, put things on the brink of the abyss: “I would tell Macri to join Libertad. Move forward and that’s it; Let’s end this story.” he shot The war between the allies of Together for Change continued with the same fury on social networks.

Quick reflexes, the candidates of La Libertad Avanza went out to stir the dagger into the wounded body of the enemy. The Buenos Aires native Ramiro Marra, the Buenos Aires native Carolina Píparo and even the economist Diana Mondino, usually more moderate, had fun praising and inviting Macri to join to the libertarian dancer. Nor did his former campaign advisor, the Ecuadorian Jaime Durán Barba, help him. “Mauricio had a reversion to more antiquated ideas; I see him closer to Milei because he believes that there is an Argentina that tightens its belts,” he said.

It is not the first time that Macri makes friendly gestures towards the libertarian candidate. And it is known that, in the dialogues with the leaders he most trusts, He insists on the idea of ​​unifying forces with Milei in Congress whether Patricia ends up being president or if they have to taste the taste of defeat.

This is not what many leaders of the UCR and those of the Civic Coalition, with Elisa Carrió at the head, think, for example, who do not accept the idea of ​​supporting an eventual government of Milei. For this reason, doubts arise in the opposition coalition about how much can he resist with the same composition and the same number of allies that they have now if in the elections they again stay away from the Casa Rosada. I would appear on that stage the ghost of the breakup.

Two weeks before the elections, each of the candidates adjusts their strategy to reach October 22 without making mistakes and trying to take advantage in any circumstance.

Sergio Massa has the most difficult part: add votes in the midst of the enormous scandal that Martín Insaurralde was involved in with his more than two hundred trips abroad and his unforgivable waste of dark money on the most expensive seas and beaches on the planet.

In its campaign of permanent surprises, Javier Milei sought to differentiate himself from the IDEA Colloquium by organizing his own lunch with businessmen in Mar del Plataand publicly teasing banker Gabriel Martino (“you are from Larreta,” he attacked him) despite the fact that he was previously a businessman close to Macri since he had been specially invited by Juan Nápoli, a financier who is part of his team. of collaborators.

Meanwhile, Patricia Bullrich will try to take advantage of one of her last opportunities. It will be in the second presidential debate, this Sunday at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires. There he will seek to improve his performance from a week ago and corner Massa with the yacht and his clandestine connections. And convince the audience that, There is a much stronger bond between the Minister of Economy and Mile than the romantic electoral collaboration and the exchange of interchangeable candidates on the ballots. Perhaps it is their last chance to gain a decisive advantage over their rivals to enter the runoff.

Most known surveys place Patricia third, behind Milei and Massa.

But electoral polls have long since ceased to be a reliable oracle. Nobody is clear What will become the anger and disappointment of so many Argentines. Who will bear the cross of facing economic collapse and a history that drags from one extreme to another, but always preserving the aura of failure.