“It turns out that it is a shitty government, but it also turns out that all the candidates come out of the shitty government,” Alberto Fernández said at the meeting in which the three sectors of the Frente de Todos met again.
This is a phrase that he usually repeats as a message to the intern, every time different candidates for the presidency are mentioned, in a scenario in which the FdT now feels that it has a chance of retaining power.
The head of state is one of those who may be on that list, but he also told his partners “don’t insist anymore, I’m not going to define here, I’ll define when I think I should define it.”
On the other side, Kirchnerism is preparing to reply with increasing force that Cristina Kirchner is a candidate. Her birthday is a new pretext, since this Sunday, in addition to greeting her for her 70th birthday, they will publicly ask her to apply. She lets go and allows them to put her on stage, but she doesn’t give any more signs.
Alberto Fernández is in no hurry. He says that seven months ago the trend in the polls changed: the ruling party began to grow and the opposition stagnated. “Why are we going to talk about candidacies now if we don’t have the complete photo? Let’s not rush things, ”he assesses. The head of state wants to discuss the strategy and not the names. He explains that Kirchnerism is already 20 years old and needs to be revitalized. He believes that more than the candidate, what can lead them to victory is the electoral maneuver and that is where he talks about this sector using the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries for the first time.
Alberto wants the PASO to be used and to generate a “great mobilization of the militancy”
I want to be? Yes, but he is willing to cum too. Look at numbers and admit that Cristina Kirchner is the one who measures the most. She also knows that she is the one that can add the fewest votes outside of the militancy. Second he appears and third Massa. He believes that the PASO must be used and that “a great mobilization of the militancy” be generated. With or without him as a candidate, and he says he has no problem with even having a minister running. “They tell me to think about what would happen if one of my officials beats me. What would happen is that we would have a strengthened candidate in our own government and the future president, ”he retorts.
“I don’t want to be re-elected at any price,” explains the head of state in private. These four years were not the best of his life, without a doubt. But today there is no one who brings him a strategy that guarantees victory. Faced with the rush of Kirchnerism to know his intentions, from the presidential intimacy they ask themselves: what if I said that he was the candidate, what would they do? Did they break the Front?
On the other side, at the Thursday table, Axel Kicillof was the first to ask for Cristina candidate. “The truth has already hit us enough, not even the candidate has remained,” Máximo Kirchner acknowledged in the PJ. There are those who believe that she can appear and this Sunday, on her birthday, they will be noticed. In the networks, in addition to photos and speeches from them, there will be a request for CFK 2023.
The head of the Senate allows this operation for her candidacy to gain strength. Those who visit her leave with little certainty. She says that everyone must walk and does not bless any candidate. She doesn’t give a hint if she’s thinking of running or not. A Peronist leader tries to explain the strategy: “They are not doing anything new. As she is banned, no one can appear except who she defines. Today she cannot do it due to political volume, because the coalition finger no longer works. They need to get stronger before trying it.” From Peronism they respond: there will no longer be a CFK finger.
Alberto Fernández told his representatives at the table that they should not speak of proscription but of innocence. And if Cassation ratifies the sentence, but removes the ban on running for public office? he asked them. For now, neither of them show all the cards.
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