PRO lawmaker Federico Pinedo once again urged presidential candidates Ricardo Alfonsín, Eduardo Duhalde and Hermes Binner to join forces and agree for two of them to drop their presidential bids in order to have a stronger base come October. He also said he could support the Socialist Party in October.
“My suggestion is basically that I’d love for the three most-voted candidates in the opposition, Duhalde, Alfonsín and Binner to sit down together and announce which are the things that they can agree on and the common goals they share for the next four years and decide on one of them to run for president while the rest of us support him,” Pinedo said.
According to the lawmaker, who remains one of the strongest faces in the PRO party, this could help “to have a more interesting, attractive and ambitious proposal, which would change the current scenario, vision and state of mind of the population towards this election.”
“This doesn’t mean that any of them have to drop out of the race. But they could help in the construction of a more interesting, powerful and competitive alternative that allows the common folk to pick one of two alternatives when they go to the polls,” he stated.
Pinedo considered such an agreement “possible” since “they can perfectly combine their senators, lawmakers, governors and mayors in a single ballot.”
“I believe the electoral result is a punishment to the opposition because their fundamental proposal was ‘let’s get even more divided,’ and that, I believe, is the reason why they were punished.”
The centre-right lawmaker even went to say that he would not have a problem to vote for centre-left Hermes Binner. “This isn’t about eliminating candidates; this is about working together to build something new.”
Source: Buenos Aires Herald