During the management of Cambiemos elexpresident Mauricio Macri and the then governor of Mendoza, Alfredo Cornejo, they had a very rough bond and failed to get along. The current senator was one of the most critical internal voices against energy policy and the scant influence of the Radical Civic Union in the decision-making process. But politics is very changeable and dynamic. Currently, both protagonists have overcome their differences and are getting closer, a reconciliation that makes noise both in radicalism and in the PRO.
“Evidently the one who changed his political position was Alfredo, he understood that to project himself at the national level he had to toughen up your speech against Christianity”, he comments to MDZ one of his co-religionists. The interpretation is that the turn of the former governor brought him closer to “the hawks” and that move was very well received by macri. That is why she began to have a special treatment with Corneltreating it almost as their own.
Although this rearrangement was perceived for a long time by the leadership of Together for Change, the last gestures of the former president towards the Mendoza generated surprise and some envy in others. The first impact was the photograph of the weekend in “Los Abrojos”, where Cornel appears as a “special guest” at a lunch with Mario Vargas Llosa and leaders more positioned from the center to the right, such as Miguel Picketto either Joaquin de la Torrewho also wants to compete against Diego Santilli by the Buenos Aires government.
“Not only was Cornejo’s presence at lunch impactful, it also drew a lot of attention that they were not invited Patricia Bullrich and the deputy Omar De Marchiwho has a long relationship with the Bongiovani and the Fundación Libertad”, comments a spokesperson for the PRO. In any case, the president of the PRO was compensated with the invitation to dinner at the head table with the Nobel Prize for Literature. On the other hand, the vice president of the Chamber of Deputies was not taken into account either.
“Mauricio is on fire, he lives and breathes politics like never before and he also likes pranks to show that he has regained his centrality and is exercising his leadership even within JxC,” says one of his usual interlocutors. Without undermining Vargas Llosa and the Fundación Libertad, Macri transformed that dinner into one of the political events of the week. “He practically became the host, he chose where each one went, expanded the list of speakers and even brought two radicals,” he adds.
The presence of Cornejo and the governor Rodolfo Suarez It must be an unprecedented fact in the history of the meetings of the Bongiovani’s NGO because they were always about interacting with leaders closer to liberalism or the center right, a space in which radicals are not usually present. “Evidently Mauricio wanted to send a message to several with his romance with Cornejo,” they comment in the PRO.
Above all, it has generated all kinds of political speculation. The first is the most obvious and repeated. Let go of the rumor that if he decides to run again, Cornejo could be his running mate. Others rule it out because it always tends to choose women and in this case the senator appears first on the list Carolina Losada. He also wants to show that he can influence within radicalism, taking into account his anger with several leaders of that party, especially with Jujuy Gerardo Morales.
“Really macri He never felt sympathy for the radicals and their idiosyncrasies, and today he is ideologically closer to Javier Milei than to Morales,” says another source. It is paradoxical that he got along very well with the governor of Jujuy during his presidential administration and now there is more than rudeness, quite the opposite, to what happened with Cornel.
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