Cristina Kirchner has reappeared in public, but who has spoken has been her militancy.
To the cry of "Cristina president!, Cristina president!", the Argentine vice president was raised this Friday by a crowd gathered in Buenos Aires by the Metallurgical Workers' Union, one of the most powerful unions in the country.
Two months after her assassination attempt, and while the government undertakes an economic adjustment by sectors to meet the goals of the International Monetary Fund, the expectations for the vice president's first massive speech in more than two months were enormous.
Kirchner has made a historical review of her management at the head of the Government (2007-2015) that has fed an idea that all those present have chanted in the room: without a clear candidate in Peronism for the elections next year,
The government coalition, which was born on his initiative in 2015 so that Peronism would return to power, seems hopelessly broken.
While President Alberto Fernández avoids large public events and the management is headed by the third ally of the coalition and current Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, Kirchnerism exercises opposition from within the Government despite having silently embraced the adjustment program that Massa brought before the IMF.
There is no longer any truce or possible peace in the Peronist coalition, but this Friday Kirchner has avoided adding fuel to the fire.
In an extensive speech before the members of the metallurgical workers union, the vice president has defended the "great effort" of Massa "managing the consequences" of the economic management of the Government of Mauricio Macri, and has asked President Fernández for a "fixed sum that give capacity to workers' wages again” in the face of the spraying of income in an economy that exceeds an inflation rate of 83% year-on-year.
She has been one of the few references to Alberto Fernández, whom she has not named even when she referred to him directly.
"I do not regret it, because we were able to achieve the goal of voting against certain policies," the vice president defended about her decision to form a government behind whom she had been one of her fiercest critics of her years ago.
"Cristina presidenta!, Cristina presidenta!", The militants received this Friday at the act in Pilar, on the northern outskirts of Buenos Aires.
The idea that the former president will present a candidacy again in the presidential elections next year has been around the public acts of Peronism for months.
And, despite the fact that the leaders of her party prefer not to clarify whether this is a real possibility, the lack of clear leadership in Peronism before the elections in October next year adds fuel to the fire.
President Fernández has not ruled out running for re-election, and this may be the last chance for Massa, the third leader of the government coalition, to come to power after decades on the second political line.
No one convenes like the vice president,
The open primaries before the election are another open crack in the coalition in recent weeks.
While officials close to the vice president push for her elimination, the president and the few officials close to him that remain refuse to give the discussion.
The proposal to abolish the primaries does not sit well with the opposition, which has not defined its candidates.
The mayor of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, and Mauricio Macri's former defense minister, Patricia Bullrich, are the strongest candidates on that front.
But former President Macri, who has just published a book criticizing the "gradualism" of the economic adjustment policies that he carried out in his last government, has not finished deciding who he will support.
Not even if he will introduce himself.
The assassination attempt, two months later
“You know that I also saw it on television, right?
I didn't realize the weapon was trying to blow my head off," said the vice president about the assassination attempt that kept her for two months and three days away from the stage.
Kirchner had not completely confined himself, but he has barely appeared twice in recent months: two weeks after the attack, on September 14, he surrounded himself with religious and thanked "God and the Virgin" for having survived the attack in an act behind closed doors in Congress.
She later appeared on a live broadcast from her office on September 23.
Making a defense statement before his corruption trials, Kirchner charged against the great beast of his political movement: the Judiciary.
“From the judicial sphere, social license is given so that anyone can think and do anything,” she said,
The vice president has also referred to her attackers as "people paid by businessmen who identified with the previous government."
Two weeks ago, the police arrested four far-right militants who had threatened her with death and who had organized violent protests where Brenda Uliarte was seen, who planned the assassination together with her alleged boyfriend.
The leader of the group, an alleged carpenter who had a tiny business in Buenos Aires, would have received $50,000 from a firm linked to Nicolás Caputo, a childhood friend of former President Macri and a cousin of his former Finance Secretary.
The four were prosecuted this week, but will continue the trial in freedom.
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