Ignacio Ortelli
12/24/2020 12:40 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/24/2020 12:40 PM
"
It is a subject of the Congress, you have to ask there
."
Alberto Fernández
took note of the different positions that emerged around the suspension of the primary elections after the governors asked him to advance with the project and now avoids setting a position, in
an attempt to balance and not stir more tensions within the officialism
.
For this reason, to those who ask, the President assures that it is not a matter on which the Executive should have an opinion and says that the future of the initiative will depend on the deputies and senators.
This message was repeated in the last hours.
However, the project, which has a health motivation due to the pandemic but the political intention of reordering the opposition offer,
seems to have lost momentum
.
Not only because it left the public agenda, after the governors with some support from the Casa Rosada had made an effort to install it before the debate on the legalization of abortion began in Congress.
It also seems to cool down because
the initial roadmap will not be fulfilled either
, which provided for it to be approved outside the election year.
Although there is no law that prohibits the introduction of electoral changes in the same year in which the vote is taken, when the project began to be discussed in the Government, they admitted the convenience of not delaying the discussion
to avoid additional political costs
.
The ever-latent threat that Together for Change could use it to pay for the campaign axis of the alleged lack of institutionalism in Argentina and
stir comparisons with the Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela does
not go unnoticed
.
But curiously, although the governors are willing to pay that cost, and impose parliamentary supremacy, the deadline for the approval of changes in the electoral law was one of the arguments that they raised from the hard Kirchnerism when they objected to the suspension.
The other main axis revolved around
the need for a broad agreement with JxC
, beyond the support - warmly celebrated by the Casa Rosada - of the governors
Gustavo Valdés
(Corrientes) and
Gerardo Morales
(Jujuy), since the suspension of the PASO at the national level requires “mirror” laws in the City and province of Buenos Aires, where
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
and
María Eugenia Vidal
hold the key.
For the moment, both leaders remain firm in their rejection of the suspension, as does the hard wing exchange.
And without them, the national suspension would be ineffective in regards to health strategy:
almost half of the electoral roll in Argentina would have to vote the same
to elect provincial and local positions.
In the first lines of La Cámpora they listen to the claim of their territorial leaders who want to use the PASO tool to compete in the districts, but they assure that
the objections to the suspension do not have to do with that aspiration
of the group but with the intention that it is an agreement by consensus.
“Having the Executive, the positions are not a problem.
Everyone can be contained ”, they reason.
However, in the ruling party, the brake still prevails on the initiative put by the deputy head of the FdT bloc, Cecilia Moreau, who weeks ago warned that the issue was not on the agenda.
The legislator, who emerged from Sergio Massa's Renovation Front, who is in favor of suspending the PASO, also works in tandem with Máximo Kirchner.
Until January 3, Congress can still drive the project whose ideologue was deputy
Pablo Yedlin
, close to the governor of Tucumán,
Juan Manzur
, and establishes the suspension "for one time" of the primaries.
But so far there are no signs that this could happen.
In fact, the furious intern in the Buenos Aires PJ between La Cámpora and a group of mayors, which may have an impact at the national level and, consequently, further strain Kirchnerism's relationship with the governors, complicates the scenario a bit more.
In addition, to be able to deal with it in the extraordinary sessions, the ruling party needs Alberto F. to include it in the list of expanded issues via DNU.
It is discounted that the president is going to do it.
But even if that happens, it will be until February since there will be a parliamentary recess in January.
However, nobody is unaware that it is about repealing a law promoted and defended at all costs by Cristina Kirchner.
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