Alfredo Cornejo in Washington: "A candidacy of Cristina is the best scenario for Macri and Cambiemos"

Alfredo Cornejo He brought to the North American capital a message of optimism about the country's future prospects, "despite the difficulties" of the present. "I am on the side of the optimists"said the governor of Mendoza and leader of national radicalism. Maybe that's why he was encouraged to predict the triumph of Mauricio Macri eIn October, although he also advocated the election of a woman and a teammate, who is not from Pro, he said that he was seeing "inexorable" the fact that Cristina Kirchner seeks to return to the presidency, forced by her justice problems. "Cristina's candidacy is the best scenario for the president and for change", he said.

As he read the next election challenge, the provincial leader struck the right balance between support for the Macri government and the commitment to maintain it, and the call for a change in the government coalition to give the "signals". "a more federal country and a greater political force in the Alliance for Change.

He even left open the possibility that the UCR postulates a pre-candidate to compete with the president within the OSP, although "it will depend on the risks that this represents," he said. An inmate can add or subtract for the first round of the election, admitted the governor. And in this sense, the economy will be the main variable to observe. Radicalism, said he would make a decision in April or May, depending on these risks.

Cornejo also claimed that he would not be this radical candidate. He imagines himself in a management position in the national cabinet. But nobody offered him anything. Neither the vice president. He was adamant in that and other definitions during a conversation with Infobae and other Argentinian media in Washington, after a presentation he made on the country's future at the Wilson Center with a large delegation of Mendoza entrepreneurs meeting at the CEM.

He did not exclude, however, that the applicant was Martín Lousteau"if it is added and always in agreement with the other members of Cambio", he insisted. The same criterion will prevail on its own territory, in the internal one envisaged between the radical Rodolfo Suárez, mayor of the capital, and the macrista Omar de Marchi. There are tensions in the alliance, but they are part of a natural deliberation, he said.

"It is obvious that the coalition candidate is President Macri"Said Cornejo. If there is a radical candidacy, he said, it will be "show the nuances that allow citizens to feel represented, so that those who may be skeptical or hopeless return to Cambiemos".

In front, he sees no other possibility than a candidate Cristina Kirchner. "I guess in his head, the only way to manipulate justice in his court cases is to regain his power. I do not see any other alternative to try again to be president to manipulate justice in extremely advanced cases of corruption, with a lot of very solid evidence and it is difficult for a judge to regress, except under pressure " , did he declare.

In this scenario, the holder of the UCR plans a "more intellectually honest" campaign, with a competition without nuances between "two contradictory models". That is to say the Macri model, "open to the world, with a healthy economy, a moderate intervention of the state in the economy, against a totally opposite model, Venezuela, a model in decline in its own country".

– This is the best scenario for Macri?

– Cristina's candidacy is undoubtedly the best scenario for President Macri and the best scenario for our coalition. I think no one will guarantee her impunity in her causes, so I think she'll be an inexorable candidate. Cristina is obliged to compete, it would be a big surprise if she did not do it.

– A radical candidacy could play against Macri?

-According to the economic situation and the nature of the competition, whether it adds value to the Change Coalition or not. But I insist, this is not resolved and if it was resolved, it would be by mutual agreement.

-You talked about the need to persuade the president, privately or publicly. What does it take to convince?

-I think it suits us as a coalition to make more and more change and less and less or fewer parties that are part of this coalition. The amplitude is good for us, it allows us to build trust between non-Peronist voters but also between those who have already voted for Peronism, which is necessary for the electoral triumph and the consolidation of a project for the whole country.

– What more change and less pro should be reflected in the presidential formula?

-The formula is a good opportunity.

– Would you be willing to run for vice-presidency?

-The candidate for the vice-presidency must be in harmony with the president because our constitutional conception is ultra-presidential. In my case, I do not claim that and no one has proposed to me by radicalism or by the government. I think it's a concept that should prevail for someone's radicalism or good citizenship, for someone from within, for a woman.

-I left Lousteau out ..

-I think it would be to repeat a formula of the city of Buenos Aires, I think that would not be a good sign.

Do you see Lousteau as a potential candidate for a presidential intern?

-Why not? Why not? This is a person who has enough knowledge in the country.

– Would it have a character of testimony?

-Well, the testimony can always become less important, it depends more on the way we are (economically) and how to recruit this application. It is not very interesting to add a candidate to say that he will lose.

-But maybe a bump of this type is the one that gives the most … it is not necessary to throw it away.