translated from Spanish: Facundo Manes: “only with Diego Santilli the elections were not won”

The candidate for Buenos Aires national deputy of Together for Change, Facundo Manes, considered that, after the PASO, that opposition space “will be a coalition with different identities.” With Santilli alone this election was not won yesterday, I would not agree with the triumph of Larreta; we decided to play despite having a system against it, which does not want anything to change,” said the neuroscientist, who with 96.91% of the tables counted obtained 39.81% of the wills (1,254,220 votes), losing the internal one with the former deputy head of the Buenos Aires Government, who reached 60.18%. In this regard, Manes said: “The problem of Cambiemos was the homogeneity of a color, now it will be a coalition with different identities but we will be together to win in November with different expressions; the dynamics of before Cambiemos no longer exist, and it is good that it does not exist anymore.”

In a dialogue with Urbana Play, he also stated that his list faced “two phenomenal political apparatuses such as the PRO and Kirchnerism.” It was a patriada and, if what Larreta wanted happened (to go alone with Santilli as a candidate), today Kirchnerism was not beaten,” he said. In addition, Manes said that he went to the election “with the conviction that with the same as always was not won” and that “was evidenced: if the coalition went with the same today it was not won, that is the reading, not the other.”

Regarding how the campaign will continue in the face of the legislative elections of November 14, the neurologist said that “each list will have its independence.” From now on, from 1,254,220 votes that his list contributed to the Together front, “there will be a reflection”, which is that although they are “within the same coalition” and coincide in “a country with strong institutions, open to the world, and with economic rationality, there are also differences”. In that context, he said that he was not surprised by the result since he saw in the street tours that “many people who never voted for Cambiemos were now going to vote for Juntos” and closed: “I was always confident because the street responded to us.”
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