After the removal of a candidacy that Cristina Kirchner rehearsed in La Plata, a part of Kirchnerism began to deploy a new game, in which they combine versions of multiple formulas so that the vice president is finally on the ballot of the Frente de Todos with some gesture towards the sector of the president Alberto Fernandezwhere they await a one-on-one meeting.
“I’m not going to be a candidate for anything,” said a visibly angry Cristina Kirchner after the sentence against her in the Highway case. The leaders who follow her did not resign themselves to her and activated an “operative outcry” to which, however, she herself lowered her tone: “I already gave what I had to give” and “President no” were the two phrases that he left to the militancy a week ago.
However, in the last hours some of the Kirchner’s power plants returned to the charge with an alleged reversal of the vice president in that decision and made it known that she will finally be a candidate. The suspense with which the leader plays allows the versions to run, although those closest to her send signals that go in other directions.
The senator Oscar Parrillione of those closest to Cristina Kirchner, affirmed for example that “no one is going to stop there being STEP in the Frente de Todos” as Fernández wants and even mentioned the potential candidates, but he was careful not to not include the vice president. For its part, the sector that moves the “operative outcry” starts rolling candidacies ranging from president to governor or senator.
Elections: multiple formulas for Cristina Kirchner, with an inmate in the Province
The possibility of a Cristina Kirchner’s candidacy for governor of the province of Buenos Aires is a novelty and was the spearhead of the campaign that some Kirchnerism operators seek to install while the lack of concrete definitions persists in the official alliance.
They complete this alchemy with an eventual candidacy of their son, the deputy maximum kirchner, to national senator for the Province, the same place that until recently they handled as the strongest possibility for the vice president within their political space. The attempt to give life to this new campaign had a notorious test on Twitter, the most political social network.
Some Kirchner power plants are agitating for a candidacy for governor in the midst of an internal one that includes Kicillof
A notable aspect of that version is that it began to run one day after the Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillofratify his desire to go for re-election because, according to what he said, “it is natural,” and he will distance himself from the presidential candidacy to which a sector of Peronism, led by Máximo Kirchner, has been seeking to raise him for months.
However, Kicillof He left the door ajar to any change in plans by clarifying that “it is not an individual decision or a matter of personal adventures” and that its official launch “will be at the right time.” And it is that both the front-line leaders and the more lateral operators know that, beyond any possibility, Cristina Kirchner will have the last word.
Thus, they seek not to deactivate at any time the “cry” for a presidential candidacy. Just in case. Some are even excited by the memory that in 2011, when the then president was nearing the end of her first term, she uttered the same phrase as last week in La Plata: “I already gave everything I had to give “. Shortly after she announced her re-election.
Will there be a STEP?: gestures and conditioning of Kirchnerism
In parallel, some of the leaders who are closest to Cristina Kirchner send signals of unity with the different sectors of the alliance and of a conditional truce with albertismo. After the President made it clear by giving up his re-election his desire to resolve the candidacy in a STEP, Parrilli sent a favorable signal.
The Kirchnerist senator said that No one will oppose this tool, although he clarified that the first thing to do is “discuss whether the Frente de Todos is going to have a single program or not”in line with what the vice president claimed days ago: a common economic and political project, before a candidacy.
“All the members of the Frente de Todos, not only the Justicialista Party but also those of the Frente Renovador and the social movements are good candidates“, indicated the collaborator of the vice president while he mentioned Sergio Massa, Juan Grabois, Daniel Scioli y Edward “Wado” Of Peter. “I don’t rule anyone out,” she added.
In the albertismo they ask for a meeting between the President and the vice while gestures and suggestive meetings are crossed
barbecue ignored Cristina Kirchner, whose possible presidential candidacy would cancel a STEP in the Frente de Todos, according to the agreement in all sectors of the alliance. He also forgot to name the chief of staff, Agustín Rossiwho runs for now with the support of Fernández to compete.
Albertism asks for a summit
However, the mere fact of conceding that there could be a primary to define the candidacy is in itself a gesture towards the public claim of Alberto Fernández, who is waiting for a meeting with Cristina Kirchner. This is seen in the request that the Minister of Social Development has been reiterating, Victoria Toulouse Peaceundeniably close to the President.
“First the The President and the Vice President are going to sit down.they are going to talk, then the candidacies come,” said Tolosa Paz in parallel to a management meeting (that was the official reason) that he held with the head of the block of senators of the Front of All, jose mayansanother leader in frequent dialogue with Cristina Kirchner.
He had already said shortly before that “the technical direction of this game that is played on August 13 is Alberto and Cristina and it is they who must define how they put together this team and what are the rules of the game”. Albertism’s request for a meeting ordered by the inmate is already on the table.
The decision, finally, returns to the vice president. Both for a summit with Fernández -which would also include Massa- and to confirm or reject candidacies, especially his, the movements of Cristina Kirchner they will be what defines the electoral future of the Frente de Todos and the clock is already ticking.
