Things are hot inside Together for Change, and Salta would become the seventh province where the coalition that wants to return to power in October disintegrates completely.
To the surprise generated by the announcement of Now Homeland to form an electoral front at the provincial level together with Salta Independiente and a sector of the Frente de Todosdisregarding the PRO and the Radical Civic Union, added the rudeness that the Capital Committee of the centenary party made to its own president, Miguel Nanniwho together with the PRO leader, Ines Liendo, They announced that they will integrate the formula for governor and vice on May 14.
This unconsulted announcement generated outrage within the radical ranks, and in just a few hours they issued a statement repudiating that decision and reminding their own leader that these definitions are taken democratically.
In dialogue with Salta/12, the president of the Capital Committee, Ruben “Chato” Correa, He stressed that the regulation signed by the National Board of Together for Change last October establishes that in the provinces where Simultaneous and Mandatory Open Primaries (PASO) are not held, and when they do not reach an internal agreement regarding the candidates, the mechanism to order the lists will be in an open internal “and not self-proclaimed.”
He also highlighted that of the two remaining members of that coalition (due to the departure of Ahora Patria), one of them, the PRO, “is intervened and torn between those who left with Zapata and the saenzcistas”, demonstrating the local weakness of the party commanded at the national level by Patricia Bullrich. Therefore, he considered that “in no way can a municipal party of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires come to mark the times and the candidates for a party with more than 130 years and presence throughout the country” such as the UCR.
In the statement, the representatives of the Capital Committee asked themselves “Does Juntos x el Cambio exist in Salta?”. The history professor at the National University of Salta went further by stating that this front today “is a pipe dream” and that it is time to seek other allies “more in tune with traditional radical thought and thought.”
He also recalled that “there was never a JxC table” or constitutive act, “even At the national level, everything is incredibly precarious”he lamented. For Correa, the only alternative to put that alliance back together at the provincial level would be to call for the establishment of that table, that its constitutive act be established, “that all the radicals know it and give it the endorsement in a meeting of the Provincial Committee ”, something that he sees as very difficult “due to the little attachment of Miguel Nanni “to the party democratic instances”.
Rubén Correa said that while the Capital Committee has already held 32 meetings, who chairs the party in the province only called three meetings in two years. Likewise, he stressed that this provincial mandate expires in March, the same month in which the provincial coalitions must be defined in the Electoral Tribunal. Therefore, he hopes that internal elections will be called before that date.
“Nanni must comply with internal democracy and if he does not do so, the UCR of the capital is released from being part of Together for Change and to present their own candidates, and go to court if necessary”, reads the document issued by the Capital Committee.
And the national ones?
At the national level, and with a view to the presidential elections, things get even more rocky for the space that wants to lead the country again.
There are already several provinces in which the opposition alliance is faltering, and Salta would join that batch of continuing with these differences when settling candidacies.
Correa was clear, for him, radicalism must take a more leading role “and stop making fools.” A role in which Gerardo Morales and Facundo Manes put aside their internal dispute and go together to dispute the hegemony of PRO in JxC. “We have to strengthen the radical party and stop worrying about the polls, or what Macri, Bullrich or Larreta define, who always rode on our party to come to power,” he sentenced.
But the tenuous situation with the UCR is compounded by the lack of definition of Ahora Patria, which has already abandoned that coalition at the provincial level and is now flirting with Javier Milei and his Libertad Avanza for the October elections.
The provincial deputy and member of Ahora Patria, Cristina Fioreconfirmed to this newspaper that he will be part of the Avancemos Front together with Zapata and Estrada, with whom, he assured, he has many coincidences since they shared government with Juan Manuel Urtubey. And he questioned the future of that party within the maximum opposition coalition to the government of Alberto and Cristina Fernández by acknowledging that its maximum reference, Alfredo Olmedo has already declared that they are closer to the ultra-liberal economist than to the PRO.
