The Minister of Security,
Aníbal Fernández
, left the official script this weekend and caused an unexpected internal rift in the Frente de Todos around the supposed
"ban"
against
Cristina Kirchner
denounced last Thursday at the PJ summit, which it brought together President
Alberto Fernández
and the leadership of Kirchnerism, without the vice president, for the first time in a long time.
"
(Cristina Kirchner) It is not outlawed today
, one has to make, if it is clear, distinctions, because when they define it in the way that they define it in a cause that does not make any sense, of course they reduce its opportunity. Those who say that Cristina is banned, not being banned, they want to ban the President and it's crazy," the minister highlighted this Sunday in an interview with
Clarín
, from Paris.
Immediately, he clarified: "Although the legislation today does not indicate that it is proscribed, the conditions in which they leave it as a candidate are not good to compete."
Posters against the supposed "ban" of Cristina Kirchner.
Photo Telam.
From the stones to the office of the former president, in the middle of the discussion of the agreement with the IMF, last year, that the link with the official was damaged.
Aníbal Fernández had lost the relationship of trust with Cristina Kirchner some time ago
.
The minister even became one of the most Albertist collaborators in the cabinet: in recent times he has repeatedly insisted on the re-election of the head of state.
The quilmeño had already referred in the same way to the judicial situation of the vice president in previous statements.
What is striking is that the minister ratified his position after the meeting on Thursday, in which the PJ, with the President and the majority of the Kirchner leaders, condemned the "ban" in a document that enabled the Frente de Todos to take a series of "actions" to break with that supposed electoral prohibition against the former president.
In this sense, the Chief of Staff,
Agustín Rossi
, also endorsed this Monday his public position regarding the situation of Cristina Kirchner,
totally contrary
to that of the Minister of Security.
"
Clearly she is proscribed
. If she had kept the expectation of being a candidate open, the procedural deadlines that remain for that sentence to become final would have accelerated and in our space what happened in the Brazilian Workers' Party would end up happening," remarked the new head of ministers, also one of the President's most loyal collaborators.
The former head of the AFI, according to reports, met with the former president in the Senate a few days before assuming his new role.
Victoria Tolosa Paz
spoke along the same lines
, although she referred, on purpose, to what, according to the minister,
Máximo Kirchner
said at Thursday's meeting.
"I'll take what I heard from him, that he said that it would do him good to be asked to be a candidate. But he also said that he knows her like no one else and he doesn't think we'll have any luck with that request," the official said in allusion to the commission of leaders that, in theory, should be formed in the coming days to visit the vice president with the aim of having her review her decision not to be a candidate.
"
Cristina for us is proscribed while there is a judicial persecution
, there is a sentence that weighs on her", the Minister of Social Development abounded.
Discussion for the electoral strategy
The statements about the judicial situation of the former president come in full internal discussion about the electoral strategy and this year's nominations of the Frente de Todos.
Alberto Fernández arrived with his entourage on Thursday at the PJ summit in full operation for the re-election of the head of state,
a hypothesis that particularly irritates the Patria Institute and La Cámpora
.
Kirchnerism walks the path towards the campaign between the uncertainty of Cristina Kirchner and the possible candidacies of
Sergio Massa
or
Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro
.
The surprise appearance of the head of the Buenos Aires PJ at the PJ meeting, of which Fernández
took note only when he saw it on television
, is part of the Kirchnerist quest to block the claims of Albertism.
The final document after the summit was almost exclusively dedicated to condemning the "ban" of the vice.
Aníbal Fernández, in Paris.
Photo Noel Smart.
Beyond the conclave, which the Instituto Patria and La Cámpora had been demanding for more than a year, relations between the Casa Rosada and that sector continue to be traversed by a climate of absolute mistrust.
This Sunday, for example,
the President did not dedicate any greetings on social networks to the former president for her birthday, as did different references to Kirchnerism and even officials such as Agustín Rossi.
Alberto Fernández and Cristina will meet again on Wednesday, March 1, after several months, for the inauguration of the regular sessions of Congress.
