Ignacio Miri
07/20/2021 18:45
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/20/2021 6:45 PM
On Saturday noon, most likely at the Quinta de Olivos, although in connection with an additional table installed in the Casa Rosada, the Frente de Todos will finish
defining its electoral offer
, which, as we know,
will not offer surprise names
or candidates with the ability to
attract the attention of voters
on your own.
The President,
Alberto Fernández
, will be there, along with his chief of staff,
Santiago Cafiero
; the deputy
Máximo Kirchner
and the Minister of the Interior,
Eduardo Wado De Pedro
- both as delegates of Cristina Kirchner - and the president of the Chamber of Deputies,
Sergio Massa
.
Axel Kicillof
- who will be the face of the Buenos Aires campaign together with the vice president - could also be there that day, along with the camper
Andrés Larroque
, with several list closures on his resume.
For the Frente de Todos, the closure will be even more complicated than that of 2019. In principle, the best-known leaders of that space are all busy with government tasks.
Added to that is another circumstance: "
None of us measure, neither ours nor Alberto's,
" explains a leader of Kirchnerism that is more critical of the President.
It also happens that today the administration of the Executive has
very low levels of acceptance
if compared to what new governments usually have, which means that the campaign will not be an easy journey for the ruling party candidates.
That is why today, the only ones who want to integrate these lists are the legislators who finish their terms or those who occupy less conspicuous positions than a deputy seat.
However, the most complicated obstacle is the one generated by the leadership of the Front itself. For several weeks, Kirchnerism has maintained that the first two places on the list of national deputies in the province of Buenos Aires - the most visible faces in a legislative election -
must be appointed by the President
. "At this very delicate moment, it
would be sudden
for the media and local and foreign investors to say that the list was put together by Cristina and that Alberto was left without any power," explains one of the leaders close to the Vice President.
However, in the Casa Rosada they believe that, more than an invitation, this proposal is a trap.
"What they want to do is
disarm the President's team to appoint their ministers,
" warns an official who sees Fernández several times a day.
This is how the lockdown was set: if the heads of the list are from Cristina, the reading will be served to think that the one in charge is the vice president, and if they are Alberto's trusted officials, the Government has already taken charge of anticipating that
it is not the right thing. that the President wants
.
Several of those applicants have traveled a predetermined path in recent days with a mandatory station: the Senate of the Nation. There, at her desk in the presidency of the chamber - an elegant room with walls lined with dark oak - and sitting in the white armchair in front of her work table, Cristina Kirchner welcomes them to do what she usually does during campaign times. examine candidates.
The vice president is usually armed with a pile of photocopies, papers with annotations, folders with newspaper clippings and
sheets with the numbers
of the economy - the tax collection of that day, the projections in the market, the transfers to the provinces, the level budget execution guidelines for each ministry - black markers and colored highlighters like the ones you show in your televised court statements.
Spend two or three hours talking to them
and, more than anything, asking them questions about the data you have in the folders and testing the possible answers they will give in the campaign, if they finally pass through your filter.
Several politicians from the Frente de Todos have already undergone this interrogation. The former radical
Leandro Santoro
, who is heading to head the Buenos Aires list of the national ruling party,
passed through there
;
Victoria Tolosa Paz, from
La Plata,
who bears the karma of defeat in the internal Peronism and is therefore resisted by the mayors, and the economist and deputy
Fernanda Vallejos
, who did not escape the test despite the fact that she accompanied Cristina on the ballot in 2017. Some of them already have the black ball. There were other visitors, and several were also at the Quinta de Olivos with the President, under a more polite questionnaire and more similar to a conversation.
Cristina not only keeps applicants in the walrus. He also looks at the Cabinet ministers. He has already made public his monitoring of the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund that
Martín Guzmán is
carrying out
and
made it very clear that he does not want an agreement like the one proposed by the Minister of Economy
. She also let leaders of her space spread their dissatisfaction with ministers such as
Matías Kulfas
,
Felipe Solá
or
Nicolás Trotta
, and now the vice president also complains about the work of the Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity,
Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta
.
