One of the most deaf questions in these elections was the cut of a bullfight. And I say sorpressive because in the province of Buenos Aires at the local level people voted for Peronism and at the national level for Advanced Freedom. I do not say it is a phenomenon of study, but that sociologists are unconcerted, safe.
If we go into analyzing the vote in the province of Buenos Aires, what you will see is a solid bastion of the peronist mayors, who retained their municipalities; a very good performance of Axel Kicillof; and a decline of 7 points of Sergio Massa.
I know that the experts would use the term “multicausal” but, for me, the direct causes of this result are clear and are two: the mayors know how to make politics and the mayors do not militarize the crusade of Massa.
The second is the easiest to plasma on paper and understand. They were the PASO elections and the most important thing was to stand. The reality of our country allowed us to assume that the image of Sergio Massa many votes did not add or his candidacy did not manage to convince the mayors themselves and to limit itself to sharing the cut bullfight allowed the mayors to guarantee victory. In fact, Javier Milei in many locations had no complete list, so on “Milei-intendent peronist” was a great option.
The question then, and meeting me in the first cause of this phenomenon, is why we support the peronist prefects, but did not vote the full list. Which has the mayors who have no pasta.
By voting, among the things that one evaluates are: the macro work of the government, that is, the results achieved by management so far; as one is at a personal level, what would be the “micro” result of management; and, moreover, the candidate’s political image. This last point was explored by Javier Milei at the national level with his slogans “are the same as ever” and “the caste”.
At the municipal level, the work of the mayors is much closer to the population. The country may fall into pieces, but people see the mayor walk through the streets, work day and night, meet their needs personally, among others. This allows the mayors to establish a close relationship with their voters and make politics “bottom-up”, as General Perón said.
The work of Axel Kicillof is similar. It uses the entire province and all the municipalities, capitalizing all the provincial work. If they deliver houses, if they open a new highway, if they create schools, Axel is there. It's important that people know who did it. In fact, it is known that the bond that keeps with all - or almost all - the mayors is very narrow. The people and the leaders accompany him, feel him close.
On the other hand, we have Sergio Massa who is working for our economy and, to be honest, is doing an extraordinarily superior job to the Guzmán disaster. The problem is he's not making politics as they know how to make the peronists.
No one expects those of the PRO to cut out the streets, because in their life they threw themselves and so went to them. But if you want to be the new face of peronism, you have to walk. People are no longer satisfied with a poster on the street or say “the other option is worse”; the people want politicians to worry about the future of our homeland and feel that it is so.
In October, the elections will be different. The mayors will split the complete bullfight and go to the military to Massa, trying to palliate the first problem they had in these national elections. The question is whether the Mass will capitalize on this political work or since the government will continue to criticize the opposition.
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