Mauricio Macri speaks as he praices mayoral race elected candidate Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, as Gabriela Michetti watches on. By Sebastián Lacunza Editor-in-Chief BA City gives Macri’s candidacy fresh momentum The overwhelming victory of PRO in the City of Buenos Aires, with big margins in almost all neighbourhoods, marks a qualitative leap for the party created by Mauricio Macri. While the local ruling party scored in yesterday’s primaries a percentage similar to that of the outgoing mayor when re-elected in 2011, the PRO helm now adds Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, a man better defined as a strategist than as a charismatic politician. The most important centre-right party in the history of Argentine democracy has thus somehow emancipated itself from its founding (and funding) father, thus rewarding a style of management and a political identity which satisfies many porteño citizens. On the brink of its third mayoral term in this city, it hardly needs to be said t...
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