The Kirchnerism entered a state of “alert and mobilization” for support Cristina Kirchner before the verdict of the court is known in the road case. Very close to the vice president they confirm that a very important march to support former president “it will surely happen“, although still there is no confirmed date no clear format. For now, what has germinated in the PJ is the format of “town meeting” under the slogan of “Cristina’s banker”, an area created for bring together the leadership of the Frente de Todos -which had been very unsettled- as a prelude to a larger show of force.
The ruling party not only wants to defend Cristina Kirchner to exert public pressure before the judges decide whether or not to convict her of corruption, after prosecutor Diego Luciani asked a 12-year prison sentence and disqualification from holding public office. He also wants to take advantage of the cause to generate political cohesion in the Front of All behind a leitmotif, after months of self-generated damage by internal government. “It will surely happen. It is not known when. People are not going to bank that they ban Cristina ”, said to THE NATION an important collaborator of Kirchnerism very aware of the conversations of the last few hours.
The date of a possible mobilization is a matter of debate in the official leadership. The trial schedule is combined with the political times of the ruling party and with the management schedule that the Government intends to exhibit before the 2023 electoral season begins. The scope of the street demonstrations generates certain doubts in some actors of the ruling party, who see that this will promote a party agenda dedicated solely to the hard core in a pre-election time, which requires greater openness and a focus on government measures.
the national senator Juliana Di Tulliovery close to the vice president, nevertheless said today that the Front of All plans a massive mobilization, in unity and against “the right”to support their leader. “What they have achieved is that Peronism is in a permanent state of alert and mobilization. And yes, we are putting together a big move and a big march to show the right that, in spite of everything, those many times that they killed us and those many times that I died, and that my own funeral was, I am here”, Di Tullio asserted in Radio Futuröckwith a parallel to the song like the cicadaby Maria Elena Walsh.
In the Casa Rosada they pointed out that for now there is no specific call from the dome of the Front of All although yes “conversations in different tables and areas in the face of spontaneous, militant and citizen mobilization”. The President (who had distanced himself from his vice again) already communicated by phone twice with Cristina Kirchner to show solidarity since Luciani’s request for punishment was known and both agreed to meet, but until this morning the meeting had not taken place.
Since yesterday it has been circulating behind the scenes that Kirchnerism began to organize itself to carry out a march in defense of Vice President Cristina Kirchner. “There will be many plenary meetings, open meetings, movement. Everyone is eager to mobilize. We’ll see how it goes.” A source close to the leadership of Kirchnerism told LA NACION.
Today Di Tullio stated: “I am not alone and crying. We are a lot and we are millions. And we are ready to fight. It’s not going to be easy for them to once again take away from the Argentine people the possibility of building their own destiny”.
Asked about which spaces of the ruling party will participate in this initiative in the streets, Di Tullio was blunt. “All. You will have seen that everyone has expressed themselves monolithically”, responded the Kirchnerist senator, who added: “Many times the right wing is wrong, don’t think that it always turns out well, on October 17 it turned out like hell. When they put prisoner [Juan Domingo] Perón gave birth to Peronism. Eva and Perón gave birth to him. It is the founding myth of Peronism. Sometimes they do everything very badly, they reinvent us and strengthen us”.
“We are not triumphalists, nor are we with an optimistic view of ‘we have won’ this battle. We know that we are going to have to continue fighting, that is why we are building this enormous mobilization,” he added.
Last night, while a group of leaders and supporters mobilized to Congress and Cristina Kirchner’s home in Recoleta, the Buenos Aires PJ held a meeting behind closed doors. There were, among others, the leader of La Cámpora and head of Buenos Aires Peronism, Mariano Recalde; the deputy chief of staff -and a man very close to Alberto Fernández-, John Manuel Olmos and the deputy Leandro Santoro, of good arrival both to the President and to the vice.
It was agreed that tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. in San José 181 there will be an “open council” under the slogan “Peronism banks Cristina”. According to a source familiar with the talks, there could be another similar call in Parque Lezama on Saturday. All instances that officiate as a prequel to a more important mobilization.
“There was a need to unite the ruling party in a general moment of weakness of the Government and just this (the trial) fell. What is at stake here is what Cristina represents as a political model”, they told LA NACION about one of the referents who participated in the Buenos Aires PJ meeting last night.
The date of an eventual mass march, however, is still a matter of debate. It is estimated that the vice president will make her plea at the Vialidad trial towards the end of September or the beginning of October, since the round of pleas begins on the 5th and the vice president will be the sixth defendant to speak. The court ruling, on the other hand, is only calculated for the end of the year.
“There are several possibilities, it is not now”, indicated Di Tullio, who was satisfied that it be done in two months. “We are seeing what is the moment and the opportunity. I think it is always defined by political leadership. I would like it sooner rather than later. For me, December is a late mobilization, but October does not seem like a late mobilization to me”, he raised.
Under that position, then, she was convinced that on October 17, when Peronism celebrates the loyalty daywould be a good time. “On the 17th yes, of course. Because they are attacking Peronism, they are attacking history, we have to be able to take advantage of those dates to mobilize and express ourselves”, he maintained – along the same lines as Cristina Kirchner yesterday, during her defense speech from the Senate – and referred in relation to the magistrates that intervene in the Road Administration file: “This is not a court, it is a firing squad for the head of Peronism.”
For his part, Di Tullio, a strong voice in the space that responds to the vice president, even slipped that Cristina Kirchner sought to impress calm so that a march does not take place immediately. “In political terms one always thinks tactically when it is time. Strategically you have to mobilize, yes. But tactically, when? That is what the conduction of space thinks, those of us who are debating about these things, ”said the legislator.
While defining this activity, he hoped that “the people continue to express themselves spontaneously” and clarified: “Furthermore, when I say that we are in a permanent state of alert and mobilization, it is not an expression of desire, It will be the message of the Justicialist Party (PJ), an institutional message from a party that is being attacked”.
Meanwhile, he said that Kirchnerism continues with militancy in the neighborhoods and recalled: “We are also ruling. Y [Vialidad] It is a subject that cannot distract us. There is a lot of pain to resolve. If we come out of this stronger, we will have better tools to fight and distribute better in the remainder of this stage of our government, we will have much more strength, we need more strength to be able to distribute better.”