Kicillof, during the delivery of deeds in Tandil / Government
Governor Axel Kicillof said yesterday that Cristina Kirchner is the political leader “who has the best intention to vote,” but stressed that “it will depend on her will” whether or not to stand as a candidate in this year’s presidential elections.
The Buenos Aires president’s statements came in a context in which Kirchnerism designs a series of movements in search of “breaking the ban” of the vice president, sentenced in the first instance to six years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office for acts of Corruption in the Highway case.
Since that sentence is not final and will be appealed, Cristina Kirchner could be a candidate. However, the vice president anticipated that she will not seek privileges and that she will not be on any list.
In this context, on March 24 an act will be held to commemorate the new anniversary of the military coup of 1976. And there the Kirchnerism prepares a great staging and a kind of operative outcry.
Kicillof, when asked about the subject, launched a kind of advance yesterday. “They reached me a national survey where Cristina and many leaders of the ruling party and the opposition appeared. It is, by far, the one with the best voting intention. It will depend on her will. They put together a case without a single piece of evidence, it is part of the electoral schedule that fixes the rulings,” the president said in statements made to a Tandil radio station.
The discussion around the figure of Cristina will also be raised at the national table of the Frente de Todos that President Alberto Fernández has just convened.
Asked about the possibility of running for reelection in office, Kicillof said that “there is still a lot to do and I have the will to do it. Then we’ll see what the candidacies are.”
He also stated that “in Together for Change they talk about May to define candidacies” and added that “in the Frente de Todos in the Province we have a very coordinated work”, for which he estimated that “there will be no difficulties”.
In the interview, he also recounted that when he took office, in 2019, he found “a province in ruins”, analyzed that the territory “should have more resources” and criticized the Supreme Court ruling “that gives him money from the provinces to the City unfairly”.
“I said in the campaign that I was not only going to deal with the problems of the suburbs, but also those of the interior. And we are with a large number of works, advances in education, health and safety, “said the president.
shortcomings
He indicated that when he took office there were “indebtedness problems in the province and serious infrastructure shortcomings,” he recalled that the macrismo promised “3,000 gardens, but they did nothing at all” and stressed that former governor María Eugenia Vidal and her ministers “did not come to govern La Plata, but they did it from the City” of Buenos Aires.
“Vidal used Banco Provincia as a money table. We use it to develop and drive production. The bank not only gives credits, but advantages and discounts to those who have a DNI Account”, he described and highlighted that the Agricultural Production and Development portfolios promote industry and agriculture, while granting 500 million pesos of guarantees with the Fogaba, and carry out “structural works that also change the reality of people: routes, roads, health and education.”
“I found a province in ruins. Then there was a pandemic and there is a war in the world, “he continued, and although he acknowledged” not everything is attributable to the Vidal disaster, “he stressed that” the province should have more resources.
In this context, Kicillof questioned the ruling of the highest court by which the national government must pay the Government of the City of Buenos Aires 2.95 percent of the mass of co-participating taxes and the province will lose income of some 110,000 million pesos.
“In December we found out that a ruling by the Court unfairly gives money from the provinces to the City,” said the president.
Kicillof, led yesterday the act of delivery of 308 free deeds for the benefit of families in Tandil. He was at the Teatro del Fuerte, together with Lieutenant Governor Verónica Magario; the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Julio Alak; Mayor Miguel Ángel Lunghi; and the national deputy Rogelio Iparraguirre.
