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Tension between the mayors of the GBA and Máximo Kirchner over the law that stops reelection in the Province

2020-07-01T17:02:59.010Z


Among mayors they repeat that the deputy ordered not to touch the norm. Most of them are prevented from showing up again.


06/30/2020 - 7:01

  • Clarín.com
  • Politics

"It is off the agenda," they repeat as a crutch between mayors and officials of the Province of Buenos Aires. The coronavirus pandemic emergency postponed discussion about what to do with the law that prevents indefinite reelection of municipal heads, provincial legislators, councilors, and school counselors. But it is also true that the question still remains in desvelo to the Buenos Aires political leadership, especially by data handling: Máximo Kirchner repeats . Under the command of the current law "do not touch"

Numerous Buenos Aires legislators respond to the leader of La Cámpora, such as Facundo Tignanelli , head of the ruling bloc in Deputies.

The directive is interpreted as a manual move between mayors who, if the prohibition to seek a new mandate continues, will be out of the running. What the vice president says, they say, is to clear the way for La Cámpora to “colonize” the powerful municipalities of the Conurbano, which increases the tension between the mayors and Máximo Kirchner.

After its strong landing in the superstructure of power, it would allow the territorial expansion of the organization led by Máximo Kirchner. In the GBA, for now, La Cámpora only controls Quilmes, administered by Mayra Mendoza.

On the other hand, PJ mayors complain that Mendoza would receive privileged treatment from the Province: " They have it between cottons. Their failure, would be the failure of La Cámpora. The project would fall , " analyzes an important Peronist mayor of the Conurbano.

Law 14,836 was passed less than four years ago, with the impulse of the then governor María Eugenia Vidal and Sergio Massa. It prevents the indefinite reelection - it only enables two consecutive terms - of mayors, deputies and provincial senators, councilors and school counselors. Kirchnerism voted against the initiative.

Although many mayors already came to the forefront of their municipalities from before, the rule counts as the first term of office those that began in 2015. In this way, the communal chiefs who were re-elected in 2019 are prevented from seeking another term in 2023 .

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and with more than three years to go before that election, it seems like an abstract discussion. But for the provincial political leadership it is not.

It happens that the law already impacts the elections next year . There are school counselors, councilors and provincial deputies and senators - all who were elected in 2013 or before - who will not be able to seek reelection. Axel Kicillof's administration remains - and promises to continue like this - oblivious to the discussion . However, in the Interior they understand that there would be no ceiling to modify the law. " Those who vote that are set on fire," they say in the provincial cabinet.

Máximo Kirchner, Axel Kicillof and Martín Insaurralde at the Hospital de Llavallol, last April.

And they ask themselves: " Vidal, who should be the leader of the opposition, is going to go against the law that she promoted as governor? It is a very complicated alchemy. It is a very expensive discussion for society." In the PRO they coincide.

But both in La Plata and among some mayors glimpse that a crack could be opened for legislative discussion in case the Casa Rosada promotes a bill to suspend the PASO of 2021, an alternative that is being worked on in the Ministry of the Interior .

"Perhaps in that reversal the discussion can take place , " they reason in the Interior. "Able to sneak in there," agrees a mayor of Together for Change.

In Peronism they repeat that those most concerned about the effects of the law are their peers from JxC. "They do not have replacement figures like us. What's more: in next year's election, several of them are going to have to go as testimonial candidates on their district ballots."

A mayor of the main opposition alliance agrees. "We do not have enough figures . We are a fairly new force in which well understood personalisms give strength to the force itself. We could lose some territories if the closure is maintained ."

A Peronist mayor warns: "The law belongs to Let's change, so the political cost of retouching the law is paid by them." That yes: it observes that in case the opposition presents / displays the initiative, the Peronist legislators who have terminal in the intendants would accompany it.

If it is not through the legislative route, the other deck that is handled is the judicial one. It is known that a radical mayor consulted constitutionalists, who thought that the laws cannot be retroactive. In Creole: the norm could not be applied to the mandates in force in 2016 when it was sanctioned, if not thereafter. Thus, those elected in 2015 could seek a new mandate - and it is supposed, the last one - in 2023.

Two doubts float in the Buenos Aires political environment.

A. If Máximo Kirchner's plan is to clear the ground for his people, does La Cámpora have figures to place in the municipalities?

"They do not have so many as to fill the boxes that would be free," they point out in the provincial government. "They will have to decide, if they continue in the superstructure or go down to the territories. They cannot dispute everything simultaneously, " they add.

Two. That Alejandro Granados (Ezeiza), Martín Insaurralde (Lomas de Zamora), Mario Ishii (José C. Paz), Fernando Gray (Esteban Echeverría), Leo Nardini (Malvinas Argentinas), Gustavo Menéndez (Merlo), Mariano Cascallares (Almirante Brown) , Jorge Ferraresi (Avellaneda), Julio Zamora (Tigre) and Juan Zabaleta (Hurlingham), among other Peronists, are prevented from reelecting does not imply that they will just allow La Cámpora to land in their municipalities. It is discounted, they will seek to put together their own successions.

The regulation also affects mayors of Together for Change, such as Julio Garro (La Plata), Néstor Grindetti (Lanús), Diego Valenzuela (Tres de Febrero), Jorge Macri (Vicente López) and Gustavo Posse (San Isidro).




Source: clarin

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