History repeats itself. As after the 2023 general elections, the presidential ticket of Juntos por el Cambio once again asked for votes for Javier Milei. Patricia Bullrich has been stating this for some time: her goal is to work for a second term for the President because, she argues, the model needs more years to consolidate. But the one who gave the mission its title was Luis Petri, who two years ago was the vice of the current senator.
Over the weekend, the Mendoza native posted a video from his province of a mate that, he later confessed, was a gift for the head of state with the inscription «Milei 2027.» The metaphors are over. The task is clear: prevent the republican voter from migrating to other political options while the possibility of a centrist coalition with Mauricio Macri and allied governors looms.
Bullrich confessed that she will play wherever she is needed. She may be on a ballot, but she may also stay in the Senate, where she has five and a half years left in her term. But she once again emphasized that her main goal is to secure Milei’s second term, allowing the PRO and UCR voter — to put a label on it — to join that political proposal and not scatter.
Bullrich is expanding the hard core of La Libertad Avanza and she knows it. That is why she chose to make her differences with the President explicit when the Manuel Adorni scandal broke, to mention a complex case. A former chief of staff whom the Bullrich faction considers to have been «overwhelmed.»
Petri, meanwhile, has aspirations in Mendoza. From there he brought Milei a mate that, according to what he himself showed on Instagram over the weekend, arrived used to the head of state because the deputy himself drank some bitter mate under the Cordilleran sun. Unless there were two pieces: one for the legislator and another for the President. «Don’t ask me not to try again to put things back in their place,» the leader posted with the hashtag «#Milei2027,» the same one that was engraved on the mate. A video with the same content was later shared by the violet leader on X, validating the message.
For now, they are directly competing for the electorate with Mauricio Macri and his flirtation with building a new centrist, republican coalition that would ratify Milei’s economic direction but add institutionalism, predictability, respect for the judiciary, freedom of expression, and ties with the local business community. The PRO leader is in the United States and, due to his role in FIFA, is expected to remain there until the final. For now, he has not set his local agenda after the World Cup.
But what about the borrowed vote? According to the latest study by Casa Tres, a consultancy that works with the PRO, 34% of Bullrich’s voters in the 2023 general elections disapprove of the Milei government’s management, while 31% of that same group think the country is on the wrong track.
Looking ahead, according to the same study, 19% of Bullrich’s voters think the economy will be worse in a year, while 37% think it will be the same and 40% think it will improve. In a similar trend, on a personal level, 17% expect to be worse off in a year, 44% expect to remain in the same conditions, and 35% expect to improve.
With this data as context, 33% of Bullrich and Petri’s 2023 voters anticipate that next year they believe they will vote for a change, while 56% would opt for continuity of Milei’s administration. In that search, 44% of those voters think the PRO and La Libertad Avanza should go to the polls separately, while 50% think it would be best to run together.
para mi estos dos se quieren colgar de la gloria de milei unos vendepatria antes lo puteaban y ahora le chupan las medias no se la creen ni ellos o estas con la libertad o sos un zurdo de mierda viva milei carajo los zurdos a llorar al rincon
para mi estos farsantes de bullrich y petri otra vez vendiendo humo ya nos tienen podridos con su candidato represor y su voto prestado puro verso seguro se hacen los picantes y despues aplauden los recortes del fmi aflojen manga de cipayos