With the force of an irreversible tide, the historic stronghold of PRO in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires collapsed this Sunday. The Buenos Aires legislative election crowned Manuel Adorni, presidential spokesperson and representative of La Libertad Avanza, as the big winner of a contest that sealed the end of an 18-year hegemony of the party founded by Mauricio Macri.
The result was devastating: PRO didn't manage to win any of the 15 communes and was relegated to third place, in what is already considered the worst political defeat in its history. The main loser of the night was Silvia Lospennato, candidate of the Buenos Aires officialdom, who had presented herself as the renewed face of a worn-out PRO. Lospennato herself was forced to publicly acknowledge the setback:
"We have already received the results from our sample tables and the results are not what we expected", she confessed, in a somber tone that contrasted with the triumphalist speeches of the past.
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The defeat was accompanied by a high-impact political staging. Next to her were Jorge Macri, Mauricio Macri, and other representatives of the space, all visibly tense in the face of a result that buries a complete political cycle in the country's capital.
Attempting to cushion the blow, Lospennato stated: "In this election, we planted a seed for the future. When I told you I was the second generation of PRO, I wasn't joking.", however, her words sounded more like consolation than projection.
