The vice president speaks for the first time after being sentenced to six years in prison in the Highway case. Strong expectation in Peronism
For iProfessional
12/27/2022 – 4:50 p.m.
Vice President Cristina Kirchner reappears this afternoon at 7:00 p.m. at a public event in Avellaneda after being sentenced to six years in prison and perpetual disqualification in the Highway case. She will be accompanied by the local mayor Jorge Ferraresi and the event will end with the inauguration of the Diego Maradona sports center in Villa Corinapara, which includes a large heated pool, futsal, soccer and hockey fields.
From the Peronist bosom they hope that the former president will rule on her role in the 2023 electionsalthough there is also a strong expectation about what he can say in the face of the controversy between the Government and the Supreme Court over the payment of the co-participation to the City of Buenos Aires.
Until now, no member of the hard Kirchnerism has come out publicly to criticize or support Alberto Fernández’s decision to pay with bonds for the restitution of the resources from the federal co-participation to CABA, as ordered by the Court through a precautionary measure.
Today I am going to participate in the inauguration of the Diego Armando Maradona sports center in Villa Corina, Avellaneda. They will be able to see it live on my networks. pic.twitter.com/FzF6o3jOfp
— Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) December 27, 2022
From La Cámpora, the highest court had been questioned in harsh terms for the ruling that benefited the Buenos Aires district. One of his references, the Minister of the Interior Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro, was blunt: “It cannot be that, if they lose an election, they are going to knock on the door of the quarters of the Supreme Court as before they would knock the door of the military barracks,” he asserted.
In the preview of the act on Tuesday, Ferraresi himself fed the versions regarding possible electoral definitions of Cristina Kirchner. He indicated that “If she has to be a candidate, she will be”, despite the fact that the Vice herself was in charge of ruling out that possibility the same day that she received the sentence in the Public Works case.
What will be the keys to the reappearance of Cristina Kirchner?
The decision that Fernández made This Monday, hours before the act of the vice president, generated some surprises within the ruling party. Although she maintained the criticism of the ruling and the decision to challenge the judges of the Court as he had agreed last Thursday with 14 governors, she took a change of direction in the fight. Likewise, Rodríguez Larreta rejects the offer for now.
Cristina Kirchner had asked to “rethink” the autonomy of the City in the midst of a dispute with Larreta
Cristina Kirchner’s act could be her last appearance of the year and It will be the first after having said that next year she will not be a “candidate for anything”, a definition with which she upset the entire ruling party and particularly left her political followers waiting for new signs to face the electoral assembly.
But it will also be the first appearance after the Court ruling that triggered this conflict. Although the leader softened her public criticism of Fernández in recent times and kept the internal mute at the mercy of the Government’s economic emergencies, she never stopped questioning the PRO, Rodríguez Larreta and also the management of the City as a State.
“I wanted to raise it in this area of the Legislative Power, I think we also have to rethink a little about the issue of this blessed City of Buenos Aires, which is the capital of all Argentines,” said the vice president last August, before pro-government deputies and senators. . “The Constitution does not speak of autonomy”abounded.
In that context, one key of his speech will be in the references to the conflict with the City, Fernandez decision and also to the specific discussion on co-participation that is not new for the Argentine political leadership and that falls within the range of definitions that Cristina usually throws up in her public acts.
Secondly, The ruling also gives him the possibility of once again targeting the Supreme Court, whom he holds responsible as the highest authority of the Judiciary for leading a “judicial persecution” against him and, as he stated several times, against all Peronism. with the help of macrismo and the media.
