Silence once again took over the relationship between Alberto Fernandez and Cristina Kirchner. They haven’t spoken for two months. The last time they did it was when the Vice President found out that the President had erosive gastritis in the middle of the G20 that was taking place in Bali, Indonesia. A distant call brought them together for a few minutes.
The last time they saw each other in person was a few hours after the assassination attempt on CFK. Fernández went to see her at her apartment in downtown Buenos Aires. It was on September 2. Five months passed. After that momentous encounter they did not see each other again. This is how the Peronist power cupola is at the beginning of the electoral year.
In the calendar of obligatory meetings appears the opening of ordinary sessions of Congress: March 1. The moment of photos with high political impact. If there is no truce during February, the first day of the third month of the year will be the moment in which the faces are seen. In the meantime, there will continue to be interlocutors. Although the last internal crisis of the Government ended with one of them. There are fewer.
The anger of the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro opened a new stage of the official internal. Kirchnerism came out en bloc to support the camporista leader – who was angry at having been left out of a meeting between Fernández, Lula da Silva and the Human Rights organizations – and revealed the desire to confront the President and his small circle of loyal.
This Monday, at 11 in the morning, Fernández will lead an act in one of the most Kirchner-friendly municipalities in the province of Buenos Aires. He will announce new works at the Ensenada Thermal Power Plant, where the ultra-Kirchnerista governs Mario Seccoone of the few who are still asking CFK to reflect and compete in this year’s elections.
The Head of State will be accompanied by the Minister of Social Development, Victory Toulouse Peace. The same one that during the weekend asked De Pedro in public to see if he was inside or outside the national government. It will be the first act that the Head of State will star in after the palace inmate broke out.
Will he tone down the conflict or redouble the bet in the face of criticism from Kirchnerism? The question is asked in different Peronist offices, where there is some fear about the final result of the new internal crisis. The Government entered the electoral year and the margin of action to manage the impact of the differences in the electoral result is increasingly smaller.
Fernández is disgusted with Kirchnerism and vice versa. Yesterday maximum kirchner He left a phrase engraved on the political stage. “Cristina never mistreated Alberto, she treated him between cotton”held.
Doors inside the Casa Rosada have no doubts that the entire arch K, with the endorsement of the Vice President, mercilessly targeted the President. In Kirchnerism there are no loose satellites. They do not exist. It is a completely vertical and organic political organization.
That organizational power will be seen clearly in a month and a half. On March 24, the K wing of the Frente de Todos is organizing a massive mobilization. Remembrance Day is a key date in the Kirchnerism calendar. In Peronism it is speculated that this time it has a strong political connotation that could influence the electoral story.
In parallel, on March 24 and 25 Alberto Fernández was invited to the Ibero-American Summit to be held in the Dominican Republic. The President told the organizations that the date is complicated but promised to evaluate the possibility of making the trip. If he decides to get on the plane, he will not be present on that key date that could generate a turning point in the internal life of the national government.
The novel of government entanglements will continue this week. The level of tension is very high, so it would be normal for more voices linked to Fernández and De Pedro to appear in the next few hours, raising the tone of the debate. that internal discussion It is a concern within Peronism because it alters the management, conditions the electoral assembly and generates a negative projection on the unity of the Frente de Todos.
At the gates of February and with three months to go, where the internal organization of Peronism will be key for the space to reach the next elections competitively, the new internal government raises uncertainty and breaks the day-to-day announcements made by Fernández .
The question that arises within the political scheme is whether the messages that the K wing is sending to the President are to deactivate his re-election plan or to show him, in the light of the sun, that the differences on how to run the government are not they only exist, but have been enlarged.
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