Tuesday May 16, 2023 | 6:49 p.m.
In the midst of a strong clamor for her to be the candidate for president of the Frente de Todos, Cristina Kirchner surprised with a long letter to confirm that she will not be a protagonist in this election year. The Vice President took up the arguments that she gave after being convicted in the Highway case and pointed to the Justice in general and the Supreme Court in particular.
′′ I already said it on December 6, 2022. I’m not going to be a pet of power for any candidacy. I have shown, like nobody else, to privilege the collective project over personal location. I am not going to enter into the perverse game that they impose on us with a democratic façade so that those same judges, perched today in the Court, issue a ruling disqualifying me or directly removing any candidacy that I may hold, to leave Peronism in absolute fragility and weakness in the face of the electoral contest. Recent events have proved me right,” the former president published.
To colleagues and colleagues.https://t.co/5208R77tsK
— Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) May 16, 2023
In this sense, he recalled that what he announced last December “was not a hasty decision or product of the moment, but a reasoned and thoughtful decision. I know them, I know how they think, how they act and how they are going to act. I have seen them throughout history and experienced their game firsthand and that of my family, with a persecution tied with surgical precision to the electoral calendar.”
He also referred to the inmate who lives in the Frente de todos and claimed: “We must be intelligent to get out of this labyrinth and break the trap into which they want to lead us: that we have a candidacy prohibited by the Judicial Party. Because, faced with a right whose only proposal is to snatch rights, Peronism continues to be the political space that guarantees the defense of the interests of the people and the Nation”.
“Given this situation, it is essential -more than ever- to build a government program that will make Argentine men and women fall in love again, and convince them that a better country is not only possible but also desirable. A government program that is necessary not only for Peronism, but for the democratic system as a whole,” highlighted Fernández de Kirchner.
The full letter in the Facebook post
