2023-06-25 06:54:48
“This guy doesn’t even name us, the only thing left is for him to do it now to say that we are gnocchi,” Cristina Kirchner ironized while listening to Sergio Massa speak to the members of the Renewal Front. Two weeks later, the Minister of Economy became the candidate for president of Unión por la Patria. It is a formula that the vice president would never have blessed if she had managed to retain the power of the pen. She made it clear: her candidate was the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” De Pedro, but this time they left her alone. The tension in the presidential formula moved this Saturday to the assembly in the province of Buenos Aires, where Kirchnerism has all its interests.
At the stroke of midnight, it was confirmed that Máximo Kirchner will lead the list of Deputies in the district. Although he sought to secure the first places, he will be accompanied by the Albertistas Victoria Tolosa Paz (2nd), Paco Manrique, from Smata (3rd), Cecilia Moreau (4th) and Santiago Cafiero (5th). Luana Volnovich (6th) and Rodolfo Tailhade (7th) are added.
For the Senate, Eduardo de Pedro shares a ticket with Juliana Di Tullio, a Christian duo.
After the 2021 defeat in the Buenos Aires territory, CFK confessed that the candidacies of Tolosa Paz and Daniel Gollán had nothing to do with the strategy that she and Máximo had proposed. Later, he will be able to say the same regarding the presidential formula that he had to agree with his political enemy, Alberto Fernández. In his environment they assure that he did what he had to do: show responsibility. Finally, Sergio Massa and Agustín Rossi will be the representatives of Peronism.
The Chief of Staff said this Friday that he was a Kirchnerist. It is a Kirchnerism of Néstor because the distance with CFK is wide. In 2021, the vice president decided to bet on her competitor in Santa Fe and leave Rossi alone in the fight in this district. However, the now vice candidate will look for some possible transfer of votes from the K world. It does not matter that the President fought for him, the objective is to get the citizens to accompany them. On Saturday, Rossi met with his team in the Chamber of Deputies to begin defining the campaign.
The unknown now is what role the vice president will have in the electoral fight. Neither she nor her most trusted leaders have yet celebrated the formula sealed late on Friday. In the weeks prior to the closing of the lists, the head of the Senate spoke of the importance of the floor of the official candidates. For this, it will be key that she can transfer her votes. Therefore, if she seeks a victory, she must embrace Massa and Rossi.
What generates a bit of relief in the ruling party is that by going with a unity candidate, the name of Sergio Massa might end up as the most voting. They even say that he will surpass Javier Milei. “At least we already secure second place as a political force,” they assess. The first, they admit, will be Together for Change. They say nothing yet regarding the vast difference that the opposition can make as a force by having two candidates.
The details of the negotiation were in charge of Máximo Kirchner who moved to La Plata on Saturday. The official residence used by Martín Insaurralde became a bunker in which all the lists were closed. At the close of this edition in Buenos Aires Peronism there was a strong uncertainty. Many who claimed to be candidates had not yet signed. Some waited in bars in the center of the provincial capital waiting for Kirchner’s call.
The tension was also present at the closing of the presidential candidacies. There will be no unit list since the leader Juan Grabois is presented together with Paula Abal Medina. He had gotten off because the candidate was the Minister of the Interior. But as soon as he learned of Sergio Massa’s candidacy, he announced that he would present himself. His list is called Fair and Sovereign. The rest of the categories will share them with the Massa and Rossi ballot.
The internal sector that responds to the deputy is the one that was most weakened beyond the fact that it will have key places for resistance. Not only were they left out of the presidential ballot, but they lost the epic that made them grow. The militancy will have to defend a candidate who will go to Washington to ask for money to get to the general elections with air. “On the other side is Patricia Bullrich”, is the only argument heard for now.
But beyond giving up the presidential ticket, Máximo was in charge of occupying strategic places in the province of Buenos Aires. The national deputy and president of the Buenos Aires PJ negotiated this Saturday the lists that are most watched: the legislative ones. Kirchnerism is preparing for a possible defeat and, as in the period 2015 and 2019, the resistance will come from Congress. Legislators must be soldiers and in the province of Buenos Aires there will be two who are not: Santiago Cafiero and Victoria Tolosa Paz.
Alberto Fernández not only chose the vice-presidential candidate, Agustín Rossi, but also asked for his two officials and demanded that there be no veto. Máximo Kirchner obeyed the agreement signed by his mother. She resumed the dialogue with the President but the deputy promises that he will never do it.
The closure of the lists led Axel Kicillof to total confusion. The governor of the province of Buenos Aires will run for re-election but the negotiation for his running mate in the hands of Máximo Kirchner took the definition to the end. MK took care of the Buenos Aires arming throughout the day. The legislature is a place of power. And also the province of Buenos Aires will be a place to resist. Even Kicillof’s running mate was the subject of a strong internal dispute. It was confirmed that Verónica Magario will complete the duo once more.
The ways in which they fired him left the interior minister hurt. But Eduardo de Pedro was rewarded. Without the vice president in the Senate, he will be the one who leads the K resistance in the Upper House. Whether they win the election or lose it.
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