The Governor of Buenos Aires Province, Axel Kicillof, met in La Plata with six PRO leaders who have distanced themselves from Mauricio Macri. These include former Chamber of Deputies President Emilio Monzó and the former head of the party's legislative bloc, Nicolás Massot. Sources from the Peronist Justicialist Party confirmed the meeting took place as part of the governor's decision to expand his political coalition, centered around his recently launched 'Right to the Future' (MDF) movement. Monzó, a Peronist by origin, was the main organizer of PRO in 2015 when Macri defeated the Front for Victory candidate, Daniel Scioli, in the runoff. Meanwhile, Bahía Blanca native Massot now shares political space in the Federal Encounter bloc with Miguel Pichetto. According to the Argentine News Agency, the meeting with these two provincial leaders seems to follow the same logic as the one Pichetto had on February 24 with former President Cristina Kirchner—now unaffiliated with Kicillof—whom he visited at her home detention on San José 1111. The provincial governor has stated on several occasions that it is necessary to 'build a national alternative without sectarianism' and that to face 'La Libertad Avanza' next year, 'it is not enough with just Peronism or the Province of Buenos Aires'. When presenting the MDF during an event in Ensenada, Kicillof stated: 'This movement was born from Peronism, but we are clear that it is not enough with just Peronism or the Province of Buenos Aires. We must build a national alternative to move Argentina forward.' With this horizon, the governor launched the MDF in Buenos Aires Province last December at a major event with 1,500 political and union leaders—including the top leaders of the CGT—and did the same in the Federal Capital last month with an event at the Picadero Theater. From Monzó and Massot's circle, satisfaction was expressed that both spaces 'dialogue in a transversal way,' and they conveyed the 'desire for this to begin to be something normal and everyday. That we recover dialogue because the country's situation is so worrying that ideology is not a limit.'
