Barely three hours after
Alberto
Fernández
announced via Twitter the call for a table of the Frente de Todos to discuss the electoral strategy of the ruling party,
Kirchnerism marked the field for the President
.
Those who consider themselves the majority partners of the coalition want Fernández to also open the discussion to government policies.
"There is a lot of expectation about what will be the strategy that Alberto proposes to the whole of the Frente de Todos. In addition to the electoral strategy and candidacies,
we believe it is necessary to discuss the policies
that will be developed to win over the electoral majority that accompanies and accompanied our political front "Kirchnerism sources pointed out.
The President had delayed the convening of a table with all the representatives of the ruling party, because
he was not willing to share the pen
that Cristina Kirchner demanded so much that he use.
Close to the president they insisted time and time again that an eventual call should focus only on the electoral strategy.
His fears were not unfounded
and were quickly realized.
The senator and former Buenos Aires minister
Teresa García
also endorsed the message from the bowels of Kirchnerism.
"It is unfeasible if the merits are not discussed," she said in statements to Radio 10.
After the meeting of the referents of the Frente de Todos in Merlo - where there were no direct representatives of the head of state, but
Sergio Massa, Máximo Kirchner and Axel Kicillof
were present - the Casa Rosada hurried the call for a polling station.
The Casa Rosada has already contacted governors, mayors, the CGT and social movements of the ruling party.
The tentative date set by some of the provincial leaders who spoke with the President 's delegates is
next February 11
.
Alberto Fernández at the inauguration of Máximo Kirchner as president of the Buenos Aires PJ in December 2021. Photo Guillermo Rodríguez Adami.
The breadth of the table complicates the possibility of agreements behind the doors of Peronism.
The question is the same as always: how much are the actions of the President, the governors and the trade unions and fundamentally of the vice president within the Frente de Todos worth?
In Kirchnerism they feel they are the owners of the creature, as CFK spokesman Andrés Larroque whitewashed in the media at the beginning of this week.
Máximo Kirchner
had already publicly claimed last year the need for a call like the one the President made explicit this Sunday, although he warned at the same time that he did not need to be part of it.
Interior Minister Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro -who speaks with Fernández-, Larroque and Axel Kicillof -who also has short circuits with La Cámpora- could represent a good part of the interests of Buenos Aires Peronism and fundamentally of the vice president.
Christianity maintains a fluid dialogue with trusted leaders of the President such as the Secretary General of the Presidency Julio Vitobello and fundamentally the Deputy Chief of Staff
Juan Manuel Olmos
.
The proximity of these officials to the President is not enough, however, to
shield the unity of Peronism
of which Fernández claims to be the guarantor.
The Minister of Public Works
Gabriel Katopodis
- who balances all the partners and was in Merlo for Fernández's peace of mind - is another of the communication channels, but nobody considers him an albertista.
In the Casa Rosada they believe that the firepower of the vice president and La Cámpora is increasingly limited.
Pedro's off the record Wado tried to remind him that it was not true.
Ministers who advise Fernández believe that the president was intelligent in occupying part of the centrality of the space after the resignation of Cristina Kirchner.
The head of state insists on his candidacy for the PASO, a detail that irritates many of his allies.
Especially, to La Cámpora.
In recent days, the pressure from governors and mayors has been renewed for Fernández to take a step to the contrary or at least not to atomize the official offer into an internal one that can engulf the PJ.
Jorge Capitanich, from Chaco, who has a direct line with CFK, was the most explicit.
"The Government cannot have the President, his Chief of Staff and the Economy Minister as candidates," he stated.
The head of state, in his statement to convene his partners, polished off his status as the
highest institutional authority of Peronism
at the national level.
"As president of the PJ, the most important party in our government coalition, I have decided to convene in the coming days the formation of a table that designs the electoral rules of the Front," he said.
In the Kirchnerism they rushed to remind him that for them he does not rule.
As this newspaper announced, within the Government the
first doubts about the success of the
president's call to his allies had already emerged, although they maintained certain expectations about its possible scope.
"
It will not serve to institutionalize the Frente de Todos or for Cristina and Alberto
to reconcile, but it can be an instance of dialogue to start ordering us," they explained.
In the Province, on the other hand, the ruling party is more easily ordered, precisely because Fernández is not part of the equation.
Sources close to the chief of the Cámpora and the Buenos Aires Peronism confirmed that
the meeting in Santa Teresita of mayors
and referents of the provincial PJ will take place.
Close to Fernández they had justified the inclusion of important but minority sectors of the FdT at the table such as trade unionism and social movements.
"
If representatives of each group do not go, they will all kick
. Yes, we can make campaign decisions and it is correct that we all unify the message," they said.
The objections came fast and anyway.