“Times are running out. In April we have to start presenting the lists and programs for the August primary election,” Pichetto said.
For iProfessional
01/22/2023 – 10:04 p.m.
The General Auditor of the Nation Miguel Ángel Pichetto suggested again this Sunday that the presidential candidate of Together for Change should be Mauricio Macri because he is the one who concentrates most of the leadership within the opposition conglomerate. In this regard, he warned that “times are running out” and that the founder of PRO “has until March to make his decision.”
“Times are running out. In April we have to start presenting the lists and programs for the August primary election. We are in discount time,” he assured in statements to “Lado P”, the program hosted by Eduardo Paladini on Radio Rivadavia .
“Former President Macri has until March as the maximum time to resolve and make his decision. One understands that he is facing an important personal life decision, but there is also the fate of Argentina,” he insisted.
Along these lines, Pichetto considered that “Argentina needs an honesty in terms of leadership,” and included not only Macri in relation to Together for Change but also Vice President Cristina Kirchner in relation to the Frente de Todos.
The leader of Federal Peronism maintained that after the “frustrating” experience of the management of Alberto Fernández, who must govern in the shadow of the one who holds the highest authority in the ruling party, Argentina “cannot “endure” this anomalous situation again .
“He is not going to put up with power being on one side and presidential power on the other. The president who emerges from the electoral process in October and eventually from a ballot, if there is one, must be a president with authoritywith leadership, and with the capacity for government and management,” he stressed.
“Argentina needs an honesty in terms of leadership,” said Pichetto
“This scheme that the leader is the leader and power is delegated to another figure, this topic is exhausted for bad. It will not work, and it is not credible either. The experiences have been very frustrating. There is nothing stronger than the presidential power in Argentina. Nor a presidential power subordinated to another figure. It seems to me that in this experience the leaders must be the strongest in the face of the electoral process and settle a path for Argentina,” he argued.
On the candidacy of Cristina Kirchner
For Pichetto, that Cristina Kirchner withdrew early from a possible candidacy this year after the conviction against her for the Highway cause “was a mistake” because it “increased her political weakness” both within the ruling party and on the political scene in general. .
“A political process is underway within Kirchnerism to reconstruct the centrality of Cristina Fernández. The statement made after the trial of Vialidad was an error, perhaps due to the effects of the result,” said the former Juntos vice-presidential candidate for the change.
“Perhaps if she had been more serene and had had better advice, she would have argued that she was acquitted of the crime that she was charged with, which will be being the head of a gang, and that she would appeal on other issues and that she would also keep her candidacy gravitating. That was going to give him more strength within the governing coalition and also outside,” he stressed, adding: “That speech was to increase his weakness. I think this is under review.”
