A few days after the start of the electoral ban, the radical candidate for deputy for the province of Buenos Aires, Facundo Manes, regretted the refusal of his competitor in the intern of “Juntos”, the former deputy head of the Buenos Aires government Diego Santilli, to hold a public debate between the different electoral platforms.
“People don’t have to vote for gadgets, they have to vote for ideas. It’s a shame“Said the neuroscientist, expressing his disagreement with the lack of discussion between his” Take the Step “list and that of the man of the head of the Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
From the beginning of the electoral process, Manes was confrontational with his coalition opponents. This week he added another spice to the already heated internal discussion: he warned that the City of Buenos Aires “seems headless”Before the participation of Rodríguez Lareta in the Buenos Aires electoral campaign, after complaining about the inequality of forces between his space and that of the PRO leaders.
“Just as it seems wrong to me that Daniel Gollan resigned as Minister of Health in the middle of the pandemic (to be a candidate), giving celebrations and hugs, I also thought it was wrong that Santilli left his post as Deputy Head of Government and Minister of Security to campaign in the province of Buenos Aires”, Compared today in dialogue with AM 750.
In his last statements, Facundo Manes had pointed out that his bet as a candidate seemed like a fight “with two toothpicks against two very strong political apparatuses”, Alluding to both his opponent in the Juntos intern and the Frente de Todos. However, he is confident that the ballot will make a “very good choice” in the dark rooms at PASO next Sunday.
Thus, the closing of the campaign is not without tension. Despite being part of the same electoral alliance, the opposition coalition Juntos decided to have separate bunkers to await the results on the night of Sunday, September 12.
The lists of candidates for national deputies, who head Maria Eugenia Vidal, in the City of Buenos Aires, and Diego Santilli, in the province, they plan to wait for the results of the primaries in a unique bunker installed in Costa Salguero, a place historically used by the macrismo in previous elections. There will also be Patricia Bullrich, holder of the PRO; Elisa Carrió, main reference of the Civic Coalition; Michelangelo Pichetto, representing Republican Peronism, and the main candidates of the Capital and province of Buenos Aires.
However, the leaders of radicalism defined that they will wait for the result of the open and mandatory primaries on September 12 in their own space. Manes and other leaders of the UCR -such as the governor of Jujuy Gerardo Morales and the head of the party, Alfredo Cornejo- have long expressed their anger at the role played by their opponents in the PASO and the campaign of “smear” they undertook in against you.
Regarding the place of the bunker while waiting for the results of the election, Manes confirmed that there will be a place other than Costa Salguero for the referents on his list: “I am concerned that there is talk of bunker and they did not want to debate, I wanted to debate, I want to do it, there is one day left. He did not want to debate, a pity”.
“They are worried about the bunker … the bunker is going to be in the Province of Buenos Aires, with the leaders and invited candidates. Surely in the coming weeks we will discuss our participation in the campaign, but it will be maintaining our identity”He added.
“We don’t want the bunker to be dyed in one color on Sunday; we do not want it to be dyed yellow “, he had raised yesterday.
In the last days on the way to the PASO, Manes reiterated that his decision to get involved in politics to “improve the opposition and make it more dynamic” and review “what happened between 2015 and 2019.” “We want to make a qualitative leap in the opposition. We want the people who never voted for us to vote for us. We want to expand the coalition, review what was done right and what was done wrong”, He concluded.
For its part, Diego Santilli He also referred to the issue and avoided controversy: “Our real political adversary is Kirchnerism. Today each one is making their way and the most important thing is that with Facundo, after the election, we have to go together to face and solve the problems of the people, which are the lack of education, health, security and justice . We are going to work together to solve them ”.
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