The "iron backpack" according to Mauricio Macri and the hanging pictures of Cristina Kirchner

Mauricio Macri has resumed political activity in person. After a long stay at his home in southern Argentina - Cumelén de Villa La Angostura, province of Neuquén - the former President returned to the City of Buenos Aires to dedicate himself to his role as head of the PRO party. No longer in his offices in Vicente López's party, the former head of state stirs up the surroundings of the historic headquarters of Macri's party at the intersection of Balcarce and Belgrano streets, a few blocks from the Casa Rosada. The presence of the former president's bodyguards plus the visits of mayors and national legislators to meet with him, show that the PRO is going into the electoral fight without joining La Libertad Avanza in the two main electoral districts: CABA and the province of Buenos Aires.

This Wednesday, the party's executive board - at the national level - met and listened to the former president talk about his new passions: Pilates and paddle tennis. He boasted that in the sport that is played with a racket similar to tennis, he achieved a level to compete with players much younger than him. But he highlighted a family detail: he does not go a day without visiting his grandson Alfredo and playing with him for three hours , something that he has shown with a degree of emotion that some of his leaders or former officials did not know he had.

But that vulnerability that a child under two years of age can awaken in him does not emerge when his annoyance with Javier Gerardo Milei and his entourage arises. He demonstrated it with harsh public statements last week during a visit to the town of Arrecifes but this time, in private meetings, he renamed the group that the current president forms with his sister Karina and star advisor Santiago Luis Caputo: "It is not the iron triangle, it is 'the iron backpack' for Javier," he said, showing his annoyance with the ruling group.

The PRO executive board -where Jorge Macri, Guillermo Montenegro, Soledad Martínez and Cristian Ritondo stand out- is the base for the next party movements, with differences between its "colonels" on how to act before the elections, both local and national legislators. The head of the Buenos Aires government has La Libertad Avanza in warrior mode while Mayor Montenegro and Deputy Ritondo are still betting on an understanding in the Province, where they warn of the "danger" that would result if Peronism wins the elections and results in a political blow to the Mileísta government.

Mauricio Macri listens to everyone but does not stop mumbling about thunder and lightning against the President's star advisor: he sees Santiago Caputo behind the accusations against him - and the creation of an investigative commission - for the Hydrovia issue and fears that the power that the young consultant has been accumulating - according to information he handles from close political and business sources - will soon lead to more cases where the transparency of some sectors of the libertarian administration can be called into question. Borgen to Argentina...

There is also anger in the Macri universe with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta for his launch of a candidacy for this year, which those close to the former President consider hasty, very soon after the disappointment of "El Pelado" of not reaching the highest office. Larreta came out with a tweet saying "I'm back" and then began a media raid where he even confessed that his phone stopped ringing because of "the champion's friends" who walk away in bad times. Jorge Macri was surprised by his predecessor's criticism and freed his spokeswoman Laura Alonso to say that "it seems that he forgot about the city of pickets that he had. Some have appealed to the resource of "peace and love" and have not yet closed the doors between the different parts of the PRO, such as, for example, the dialogue of the Larretista Emmanuel Ferrario and the mauricista Darío Nieto, who share seats of Buenos Aires legislators and are like "the red telephone" between Jorge Macri and Rodríguez Larreta. Hello Earthlings...

Meanwhile, both President Milei and former President Cristina Elisabet Kirchner are playing their game . The libertarian head of state is preparing for March 1st - the inauguration of the parliamentary year - where he will once again put on his own show, harshly criticizing politics and trying to divert the focus from the "$Libra scandal." For that, he does not want a single moment of disturbance. Already freed from the Kirchnerist cries - Senator Mayans anticipated that the K block will not participate in the Legislative Assembly - he asked to be received upon his arrival at Congress by his friends and not, as is usual, by a multi-party parliamentary commission. For that, he has already committed Bertie Benegas Lynch and Romina Diez, national deputies and people of his close confidence, as well as his sister Karina, for next Saturday .

Meanwhile, CFK made public the list of national advisors of the national Justicialist Party , where she placed her faithful followers such as Teresa García, Gustavo Menéndez, Federico Otermín and the union leader Víctor Santa María, with whom she traveled to Uruguay to visit her friend "Pepe" Mujica.

Now, the former President wants to convene the so-called "Political Action Commission" , a table where leaders she wants to add could sit and try to show a little openness in the middle of her confrontation with Axel Kicillof. For the "CAP" she dreams of Ricardo Quintela or Juan Manuel Urtubey. The governor of La Rioja hopes, for now, to see how the game of Kicillof and his "Right to the Future Movement" continues and will be encouraged to suspend the Buenos Aires PASO, split the provincial elections and fight hard for the integration of the lists. Antón Pirulero, each one attends to his game, and whoever does not, will have a garment...

One topic that was discussed in the run-up to the meeting of the PJ colonized by Kirchnerism is the new decoration of a minister from Buenos Aires. In the middle of the intra-Kirchnerist dispute, a tough leader of the Cristinista core was upset with a member of Axel Kicillof's cabinet: The reason would be that the minister from Buenos Aires redecorated his office and removed all the photos and images he had of Cristina. And he did it because of the tense relationship that the governor and the former head of state are currently experiencing. The annoyance of the most K is that the man would have gone from his strong adhesion to the former President to removing her from his office, in an apparent political disappointment. Everything ends in the end...

In this column, several of the names that politics is trying to recruit in the world of entertainment or journalism were anticipated, given the lack of well-known or unblemished candidates. Here it was said that the presenter Mariana Brey was imagined by Juntos por el Cambio for a future mayorship of Quilmes; or that the cartoonist Nik, the charismatic lawyer Mauricio D'Alessandro and the TV host Iván de Pineda were measured in surveys to see their level of acceptance. Now, to the list of names that the libertarian world likes, the name of a Boca fanatic soccer commentator is added: it is Daniel Mollo , who reports on the club from La Ribera on Radio del Plata, in addition to being for years on the program "Sábado Tempranísimo" that Marcelo Bonelli hosts on Radio Mitre .

The long-haired commentator is an expert on Buenos Aires politics and the libertarian Sebastián Pareja sector is testing him to compete in the district of San Martín, where Peronism has been for years with Gabriel Katopodis. Boca's bad moment - out of the Copa Libertadores and without a chance in the Copa Sudamericana either - does not discourage Mollo, who wants to shout "goal" in his district of San Martín. I have been a Boca fan since I was in the cradle, I follow Boca Juniors wherever they go...