López Murphy preferred to remain without a match to play an internal one with García Moritán

For the second time in 15 years, ricardo lopez murphy was left without its own party in the final stretch of the assembly of lists to contest the elections in the Buenos aires city. The national deputy is considering different stamps after abruptly leaving United Republicans (UK) after a fight with his former space partner, the legislator Roberto Garcia Moritan, while they searched determine who would be the candidate to dispute the Buenos Aires mayorship.

This is the second time that López Murphy has been orphaned by a party whose foundation he participated in as part of an electoral contest. The first was in 2008 when he was removed from recreatethe party he created in 2002, after losing the elections against Esteban Bullrich who eventually made it possible for that space to be absorbed by Mauricio Macri’s brand new Republican Proposal (PRO) party.

Now, the former Minister of Economy and Defense kicked a liberal board that he himself co-designed in 2021 to dispute the legislative ones. After an incipient inclination to contest the presidency from the UK, the economist chose to prop up the candidacy of patricia bullrich and, instead, dispute the Buenos Aires leadership. This “unilateral” decision stepped on the plans of the candidate for that position, García Moritán, who was close Horacio Rodriguez Larreta. The situation is a shock to the liberal party, whose possibility of competing in the capital is in jeopardy after the departure of its great figure.

The fight for the City of Buenos Aires

The elections in the City of Buenos Aires generated intra-party discussions to choose the pre-candidates who will compete in the PASO on August 13. The succession of the political dolphin of Macri in CABA and pre-candidate for the presidency had a movement in the bases of the parties that conform Together for Change but also its possible allies, including the United Republicans, the flagship liberal party that seeks to position itself in the political arena as an alternative to the old acquaintances.

The paths converge to the photo that Rodríguez Larreta published with almost all the candidates under the changemita seal: Graciela Ocana of the Civic Coalition, Jorge Macri of the hegemonic PRO (after the loss of Larretista Fernán Quirós), Martin Lousteau by the radicals and Roberto Garcia Moritan, from UK. He great absent fire Ricardo Lopez Murphy, natural leader of the liberal party. At that time the split was already evident. He bulldog He had already slammed the party he co-founded for various reasons, including to avoid going to an internship with the Buenos Aires legislator and the model’s husband. pampita Ardohain.

García Moritán blamed López Murphy’s environment after the accusation of “traitor”: “It does not do him good”

López Murphy was categorical when clarifying why he had been absent from that event organized by Rodríguez Larreta, who is aiming the cannons at the competition with Patricia Bullrich at the national level but does not neglect his role as arm of the City of Buenos Aires. “It’s contributing to his campaign and I’m not endorsing him.“, explained López Murphy, close to the former president of the PRO. In that message, he anticipated his candidacy for the head of government to turn the City of Buenos Aires into the “city of freedom”, without mentioning the space for which he will compete.

Accusations crossed between López Murphy and García Moritán

According to what PROFILE learned, the internal differences of the United Republicans are irreconcilable. To such a level that from the environment of López Murphy they assured that the political veteran considers that both García Moritán and Yamil Santoroco-founder of RU and political founder of the first, are some “traitors and climbers” que “they used his image to make a spurious agreement with Rodríguez Larreta”.

“He is 70 years old and has an impeccable career and was the natural leader of that political construction (RU). He is not going to go to an internship with García Moritán who has only been in politics for a few months and all he wants is to do business. He is not leaving to lend to a media show.

In this context, they indicated that the economist had no choice but to look for another label to compete for the Buenos Aires government headquarters, whose elections will be unfoldedso it is expected that supports his candidacy for Patricia Bullrich to president, a no less detail after the signal of unity that Rodríguez Larreta transmitted after the meeting with the candidates of Together for Change in CABA. Meanwhile, although he is considering several options, the candidate that best sounds like López Murphy at the moment is the Democratic Progressive Party by Oscar Moscariello.

For their part, García Moritán’s entourage argued that López Murphy’s slamming of the door was due to other factors. “His attitude was very Taliban, lacking dialogue“Sources close to the Buenos Aires legislator told this outlet in relation to the economist’s “unilateral” decision to openly support Bullrich as president representing the Liberal Party, decline his own candidacy and then step on Moritán’s, something that also goes hand in hand. against the party statute.

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“The practices were not correct, it was a ‘do what I tell you or delete you‘. He broke the partisan agreement. López Murphy’s people made undignified decisions. They even removed Yamil (Santoro)’s position as proxy, which was dismissed by judge (Ariel) Lijo,” they denounced.

It remains to be seen what will happen to the future of the United Republicans and the possibility of presenting their pre-candidate for head of government under the wing of Together for Change; considering that according to the organic charter they must have two thirds of the little more than 5 thousand affiliates to be able to present to the elections, of which a large volume would belong to the economist despite Moritán’s efforts to mark his figure in the territory.

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