02/06/2021 16:10
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/06/2021 16:10
After rejecting the suspension of the STEP promoted by the governors, Máximo Kirchner
also resists
the new proposal of the Casa Rosada to run the dates of the primaries and the legislative of this year.
This Saturday, he conditioned the eventual changes to a report by the health authorities and asked to refloat the controversial alternative of
uniting the PASO and the general ones on the same date:
that is, under the format of a law of slogans.
He did so through an internal memo that circulated among the top leaders of La Cámpora, and to which
Clarín
had access
.
There, the head of the block of deputies of the Frente de Todos maintains: "We must guarantee the possibility that the parties or electoral alliances can define their candidates internally.
That is why the possibility of carrying out PASO and general the same day.
That is in case, due to epidemiological criteria, it must be done on the same day. "
Máximo also argued in that reserved message that "national authorities and political parties must establish an
epidemiological criterion
to later decide what measures to adopt around the elections."
And he observed that a change in the electoral calendar should be subject to recommendations from
the Federal Health Council,
made up of the ministers of the area of the Nation, the 23 provinces and the City of Buenos Aires.
Contrary to the majority of governors, the head of the Frente de Todos bloc maintains that "the argument to
suspend due to the cost of the election is not valid
. The election of authorities and the possibility of choosing the people is priceless."
It is known that since the idea began to circulate in sectors of the ruling party to suspend the PASO for the only time in 2021, due to costs and the health emergency, Máximo was among the first to put a dam on it,
in strange coincidence with the bulk of the political opposition
.
Is that both consider that skipping the STEP is a maneuver that favors the rulers of each province or municipality.
And the camporismo is preparing to
give internal battle several heavyweights of traditional Peronism in its bastions.
Especially in municipalities of the province of Buenos Aires.
However, the leadership of Together for Change has warned that it is only willing to negotiate an eventual shift in dates if the sanitary conditions and the delay in the vaccination plan require it.
That is to say, it insists on rejecting the suspension of the PASO and flatly discards the introduction of a virtual "law of slogans", which consists of
a candidate dragging the votes
of other candidates of that force who have been ahead in the same election .
The system has already cost several of its members surprising defeats in several of the provinces where it is in force,
As Clarín revealed, the Government decided this week to take as its own the project of
the radical deputy Carla Carrizo
(accompanied by four other colleagues)
,
which establishes the shift of the primaries from August to September to shorten the campaigns, also adding the change of date of the general elections.
In principle, the idea would be to
delay the primaries from August 8 to the end of September and the legislative ones from October 24 to the last week of November.
Also circulated in the last hours the version that the Minister of the Interior,
Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro
, began with the round of
consultations
on these projects in dance.
One of those who received the invitation to discuss the issue was the head of PRO, Patricia Bullrich, who asked the official to reconnect upon his return from the tour he is doing in Córdoba, to present his book Guerra sin cuartel.
The former Minister of Security said this Friday in Carlos Paz that she preferred not to change the calendar
in the middle of an electoral year,
although in her environment they admit that if the health situation demands it, she could make the position more flexible.
"If the vaccination plan does not advance for us, it would also be convenient for us to move the dates of the primaries and the general ones for
months of milder weather
, so that older people can come to vote for us," they say quietly in sectors of macrismo.
In the meeting he held on Thursday with President Alberto Fernández and the head of Deputies, Sergio Massa, the head of La Cámpora suggested that any modification of the calendar must be based on "strictly epidemiological criteria."
This Saturday he repeated it in the memo addressed to his troops and added that "there should be no political speculation to modify the calendar."
Officials of the Casa Rosada who promote the shifting of the electoral schedule consider that the lists of the Frente de Todos may benefit from an
eventual economic rebound
, a greater flow of vaccinated people and an improvement in sanitary conditions.
On the other hand, Máximo Kirchner established his proposal to "consider that the traditional campaign of tours and accumulation of people is not going to be possible", so that in his opinion "
the supports for free electoral advertising
should be expanded
",
beyond of the minutes on TV and radio today guaranteed by law.