Minutes after knowing the first results of the elections in Mendoza, Alfredo Cornejo He took the stage to celebrate the victory with his followers. The leader of Together for Change He obtained a 10% difference with Omar de Marchi and was elected the new provincial leader after having also achieved it in 2015.
The radical official asked that «let’s make a safe change, a sustained change in Argentina, so that we are not in ups and downs, ups and downs, with the danger of returning to populism in a very short time. That is why we are from here, from Mendoza, asking you to vote for the formula of Patricia Bullrich, president, and Luis Petri, from Mendoza, vice president,” he indicated.
«Here there is a team to govern Argentina. There is a team that can move the country forward. We are not going to move the country forward with anger alone. We are going to take it out with ideas, with projects,” added the new governor of Mendoza, who announced that he will accompany Bullrich and Petri to all the places possible to support his candidacy.
Also, Alfredo Cornejo acknowledged that he is “filled with pride” to be governor of his province but that it generates “much more commitment than I already have for the public service, which I love, which I have prepared professionally and which we have built with a team that without a doubt surpasses me. “We are going to do everything we can, everything so that Mendoza grows, develops and maintains this standard of public services that with a lot of effort, many people with the leadership of the provincial government we have in Mendoza,” he concluded, according to NA.
Omar de Marchi’s message
The candidate who came second in the elections, Omar de Marchi, acknowledged defeat and maintained that “It is the first time in 8 years in the province of Mendoza there will be serious opposition, responsible, substantiated with the interests of the province of Mendoza. This message in itself was quite curious, although understandable, considering that he was part of Together for Change and left.
«We have been a few points away from a government scheme, which has been governing the province for 8 years, with everything that the support of power means. Therefore, for us, the fact of having been or being within a not so important difference fills us with satisfaction,” added the leader about the choice made by him.
