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Negotiations for the closing of lists continue and Alberto Fernández heads to preside over the PJ

2021-02-15T21:34:23.887Z


At midnight, the deadline for submitting applications expires. Tensions with the parallel list that includes De Vido, Mariotto and Milagro Sala.


Federico Mayol

02/15/2021 5:51 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 02/15/2021 6:29 PM

In the midst of farewell to former president Carlos Menem, who for a decade managed the Justicialist Party at his discretion and convenience, Alberto Fernández was heading tonight to rally behind his figure the main actors of the ruling party to preside over the party from the next month, a sign of party solidarity to shore up his leadership and unify positions.

With José Luis Gioja, current president of the PJ, isolated with almost no symptoms at his home in San Juan after having been infected with coronavirus, the Interior Minister,

Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro

, had put the conversations with the different sectors on his shoulder before to stamp the signatures and present the guarantees at the headquarters on Matheu Street, where the attorney-in-fact Jorge Landau was waiting early on.

At 11:59 p.m. the deadline

for submitting the lists.

Then it will be time for challenges.

And on March 20, finally, the elections. 

Earlier,

Alessandra Minnicelli

, wife of former Minister Julio de Vido, and

Gabriel Mariotto

, two of the representatives of the list with which Governor Alberto Rodríguez Saá intends to challenge, and negotiate,

had come to the Buenos Aires headquarters.

Alberto Fernandez.

Last November, after the party elections and the endorsement presentation schedule were postponed, the President and the governor agreed that once the Electoral Board approved the payroll that nominated the San Luis-the term of analysis expires towards the end of this week - they would negotiate a unit list.

This is what Rodríguez Saá intends, who is running with the list "Azul y Blanca Fuerza Argentina" along with a group of leaders who were part of the most orthodox Kirchnerism in the last decade.

Like De Vido, Mariotto and Minnicelli, as well as Ana Jaramillo, from the University of Lanús, and Horacio Ghilini, a teacher unionist.

Although the most controversial presence is that of Milagro Sala, candidate for first vice president of the PJ, despite not being affiliated.

This morning, the Jujuy leader, who received a severe setback during the week of the Supreme Court, asked the Casa Rosada to proceed to pardon her: "Alberto Fernández should pardon not only me, but all the companions."

The insistence of Sala and part of the hard Kirchnerism puts the President in trouble.

Until after 3 p.m., Landau and his collaborators waited on Matheu Street for the presentation of guarantees for the official list.

By midmorning, Minnicelli and Mariotto had already done it: they came with 9 boxes with about 85 thousand guarantees, as they trusted.

High PJ sources assured

Clarín

that however there are serious doubts about the legality of said presentation, something that they reject from the ranks of Rodríguez Saá.

In that sense, from

the Casa Rosada and La Cámpora they trust their original plan

: the confirmation of a single list with Fernández as head and all sectors of the Frente de Todos, including trade unionism.

It was part of the menu that was discussed at lunch a fortnight ago in Santiago Cafiero's office, and which was attended by the head of state, Sergio Massa, De Pedro and Máximo Kirchner.

As it emerged late in the afternoon, among the applicants for the five vice presidencies are representatives of the governors, in addition to the deputy

Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez

, who has good ties with all sectors. 

For example, a group of mayors of Greater Buenos Aires were meeting late in the afternoon in an office of the City, locked in the last negotiations.

Then there will be discussions about the leadership of the Buenos Aires PJ, reserved for the head of the Frente de Todos block in the lower house, which arouses suspicions in part of the leadership led by a sector of the communal leaders of the suburbs.

And the postponed bid in the Argentine Federation of Municipalities (FAM), for which

Fernando Espinoza and Juan Zabaleta

, one of the favorites of the Casa Rosada, are

fighting

The idea of ​​enthrone

Alberto Fernández

as head of the national PJ party began to take shape in the middle of last year, in the midst of a pandemic, and was crystallized with more evidence in the act of the CGT in October, on Loyalty Day.

That afternoon, Cristina Kirchner was absent.

The same as today, at least formally.

Last year, with the two letters she published, first for the tenth anniversary of the death of Néstor Kirchner and then towards December, with harsh criticism of the Supreme Court, the vice president demonstrated that she does not need any party structure to exercise her leadership.

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Source: clarin

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