“Today, in terms of voting intention, Patricia Bullrich wins; but if Macri says that his candidate is Larreta, I think Larreta wins, because Macri takes his voters to one place or another,” says Burdman, director of Observatorio Electoral Consultores.
“Today Larreta is the one with the greatest negotiating elements, because he can influence the Buenos Aires election. I think Macri can ask Larreta to give him control of the Buenos Aires government in exchange for the presidential (election), “adds the expert, to clarify that it is still difficult to predict the next steps of the former president.
The opportunity for Alberto Fernández?
The absence of Macri in the electoral contest reduces some of the strength of the possible candidacy of the vice president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández, the main exponent in political and electoral terms of Peronism, since she will not be able to appeal to “anti-macrismo” as a campaign slogan.
In fact, the official scenario is full of uncertainties: without alternative candidates to the former president (2007-2015), with an adverse economic situation (102.5% year-on-year inflation in February) and a president, Alberto Fernández, who receives constant messages from “hard Kirchnerism” to “lower” his aspiration for re-election.
“Cristina Fernández knows her limits, as she knows how essential it is for her space. One of the great debts of Kirchnerism as a political movement is to generate a succession with strength and political muscle. It already happened in 2015, when they wanted to impose (Daniel) Scioli , because they had not known how to forge a succession”, points out Regueira.