After the fracture of the ruling bloc in the Senate, the Communication Department of the Upper House, which presides over Cristina Kirchnerspread the letter sent by Jujuy Guillermo Snopek to justify the break. In other words, the vice president thus tries to show that this break is due to the discomfort of those senators with President Alberto Fernández, when strictly speaking, the official bloc responds to her. The manager sent him a carta to formalize the decision, in which he launched strong questions to the management of Alberto Fernandez, to whom he blames “being away from the priorities” of Argentine society.
“My decision is motivated, first of all, by the increasing distance that I feel regarding the management course of the President of the Nation, Alberto Fernández, far removed -in my humble opinion- from the priorities that our people demand”, says the letter sent by Snopek. Cristina Kirchner received the letter at noon and the Senate Communications Directorate disseminated it over the course of hours.
The new bloc will be chaired by Snopek, and will be seconded by the dissident Peronist Alejandra Vigo. They will join Edgardo Kueider (Between rivers), Carlos Espinola (currents) and Maria Eugenia Catalfamo (San Luis), all members of the official bench until now. Except for Vigo, until this Wednesday they were all members of the bench of the Frente de Todos headed by José Luis Mayans, and with direct interference from Cristina Kirchner.
The rupture will enter into force on March 1 on the occasion of the opening speech of ordinary sessions that Alberto Fernández will make, with the Congress meeting in the Legislative Assembly. In turn, this Thursday the 23rd will be carried out the preparatory session in which the authorities will be elected legislation for the next term.
In his letter, Snopek fired multiple shots at the Casa Rosada. “As a representative of my Province, I cannot fail to point outr the lack of favorable incidence that the President has had in recent times towards Jujuy”, Indian. staunch critic of Gerardo Morales, the legislator reproached Fernández for not having taken action regarding the complaints that fall on the Judiciary of that province. “I cannot, nor do I want to, complicitly attend to the total loss of institutionality in the province of Jujuy, with a governor who does not respect the division of powers, the Constitution or any counterweight mechanism”, he stated in the resignation note to the FdT.
The legislator thus echoed the questions that the hard Kirchnerism makes to Morales. And, by decantation, he pointed against Alberto Fernández. “The absolute deterioration of the Rule of Law in my province, which began at the end of 2015, has only deepened since 2019. It has been, in this sense, a great disappointment for all those who We believed that the assumption of Alberto Fernández could represent a new future”, he added.
And he added: “In this 2023 that has just begun, we are undauntedly witnessing a carnival of arrests at the request of Governor Gerardo Morales, in order to discipline and intimidate the opposition on the eve of the electoral campaign. The indifferent gaze of the National GovernmentIt erodes the hope that Human Rights can once again be respected in Jujuy”.
At the end of the letter, Snopek stressed his disagreement with the Government. “I have always defended the banners of Peronism and I believe that today the principle that “Better said than done”he claimed.
After his first letter, the man from Jujuy sent a second to Cristina Kirchner, in the late afternoon, around 5:30 p.m. There, she formalized the formation of the new Federal Unit block. Snopek signed it along with Alejandra Vigo, María Eugenia Catalfamo, Edgardo Kueider and Carlos Mauricio Espínola.
as posted THE NATIONthe fracture of the ruling party is a real political coup for Cristina Kirchnergiven that it will make him lose control of the Upper House. With the loss of four senators, the Frente de Todos interblock will have 31 members and will definitely be far from being able to reach a quorum of 37 present, as happened until last year, when with the help of three provincial allies it was able to impose the agenda of Kirchnerism without too many setbacks.
Now, in addition to negotiating with the provincials, Cristina Kirchner will have to sit down to agree on the setting up of the sessions with the new conglomerate of dissident Peronists. The damage is even harder if one takes into account that, with the departure of four senators, Kirchnerism loses its status as the first minority in the Upper House, which will go on to be held by Together for Change, whose interblock today has 33 senators.
It is still unknown how this new scenario will have an impact on the leadership scheme of the Upper House and, above all, on the assembly of the legislative commissions for an electoral year and in which the Frente de Todos will risk its continuity in the power.
In fact, three of the four senators who left the ruling party chaired commissions and everything indicates that they will not be re-elected to their posts when the next regular session begins.
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