10/19/2020 21:37
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 10/19/2020 9:37 PM
The week of October 17 served Peronism to reactivate
the sap of its history.
Alberto Fernández spoke of Perón in the CGT.
Cristina tweeted remembering Nestor.
And Sergio Massa made his proclamation at Juanita Viale's televised dinner.
But
the real Peronist surprise
is that Zulemita Menem is preparing to be a candidate for national deputy.
And if things go the way she wants, she could join one of the lists for the 2021 legislative elections.
Zulemita, let's say it, has been Zulema for quite some time.
She is 49 years old, with two children from two different marriages, and a life that has been closer to the celebrity path than the political path.
But that
changed in recent months.
She has been activating her participation in social networks with some success and
resisting until now each of the offers
to be a candidate for deputy for La Rioja, the province where she was born and the territory from which her father, the former president, governor and now senator, Carlos Menem.
The novelty is that Zulema Menem
wants to be a candidate for the province of Buenos Aires.
Because although today he lives in a Buenos Aires apartment,
a house
is being built
in San Isidro
and aspires to represent the rough Buenos Aires district that his father could never fully conquer.
He uses the same strategy that Néstor Kirchner from Santa Cruz used in 2009 to be a candidate for deputy for the Province.
“I lived for ten years at Quinta de Olivos,”
recalls Zulemita.
If the last five Buenos Aires governors lived in the City, the address that appears today on their ID would not be a big problem.
Menem's daughter maintains good relations with the aristocracy of Peronism.
She has
always
had
respectful dialogues with Alberto Fernández and Cristina treats her with great kindness.
It is true that Carlos Menem has voted in the Senate all the laws that the Vice President has requested.
And they have even gone to look for him with an ambulance when health was an impediment.
Those days when Kirchnerism spoke of Menemism as
the plague of a cursed decade
seem to have passed into oblivion.
It is seen that there are few muscles as fragile as that of memory in Peronist DNA.
The Zulemita deputy project does not seem to be a summer night's dream.
He has a team of professionals with whom he
is polishing his speech
and has been in contact with the leader of La Matanza, Miguel Saredi.
A Peronist entrepreneur who managed to be a councilor allied with Mauricio Macri and who was a candidate for lieutenant governor with the Lavagnismo.
They are preparing some appearances of Zulema in the suburbs to
test how the Menem surname is remembered
in Greater Buenos Aires.
"With everything that happened in Argentina, there are many who already miss the Menem times", the alchemists of the Z candidacy are deluded.
Among the leaders who meet with Zulema there are several who make up
the historic Federal Party.
The one that Francisco “Paco” Manrique founded and that allowed him to obtain almost a million and a half votes in 1973. With a generous spirit, the federals accompanied Raúl Alfonsín and Eduardo Angeloz in the 1980s;
Menem and Domingo Cavallo in the '90s;
to López Murphy in 2003, to Ricardo Alfonsín in 2011, then to Daniel Scioli, and to Roberto Lavagna and Juan Manuel Urtubey in the last elections.
Quite a multi-party experience.
Now they would have the papers ready to include Zulema Menem on their lists if the daughter of the former president from La Rioja decides to launch into professional politics.
It is also not ruled out that he ends up joining the lists of the Frente de Todos, but
that possibility would depend on Cristina and Máximo Kirchner,
who will define the majority of the candidates in the province of Buenos Aires next year.
Zulemita has already
told Carlos and his mother Zulema about his plans.
He prepares with his team to talk about national pacification, an issue that was key on his father's agenda.
He also wants to get into the ecological challenges debate and will
dodge economic discussions for now.
With the dollar getting closer to 200 pesos, circular and crazy Argentina could be seen arguing about those days of Menem dogma in which it was firmly believed that a peso could be worth a dollar.
Of course, if there is an unexpected factor that could affect Zulemita's electoral incursion, it is
the series
that Amazon Prime Video is preparing on Menem's life for next year.
Under the nineteenth title
"Follow me",
the tumultuous life of the former president and that of his entire family will be part of the national gathering, precisely during the months of the campaign.
"It will be a political thriller mixed with dramatic comedy," advanced the producers of the project.
If Zulema ends up being a candidate, the elections will have
an ideal script
for the country's cinematographic film.
On September 12, Zulemita wrote a tweet asking La Rioja to donate plasma.
And it was
the President himself who shared that message by
making public a little-known link.
Menem's daughter came from suffering from coronavirus and had a great impact with her request on the networks.
He had recently returned, for the first time in a long time, to the Casa Rosada.
It was there that Alberto Fernández approached him in person to confirm that they will
soon inaugurate the bust of his father
, who turned 90 on July 2.
It must be recognized that, as some say about God, the paths of Peronism also seem to be infinite.