Vice president Cristina Kirchner will be key to a 'consensus' candidacy. Daniel Scioli insisted that he is not going to get off and that his decision to be a pre-candidate "is irreversible" The governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, refuses to make the leap to the national contest and prefers to go for his re-election in the Province.

Sergio Massa's Renewal Front are the only ones who insist on the consensus candidate because they want it to be him.