"The Front of All But One"
.
This is how he defined in these hours, in advance of the public reappearance of
Cristina Kirchner
in La Plata, one of the organizers of the launch of the political training school that Kirchnerism and massismo will make official this Thursday as the starting point for the design of the campaign electoral that still does not have a strategy or candidates but only one certainty: they want
to do without Alberto Fernández
and the collaborators who still respond to him.
"Now they are Cristina and Sergio (Massa)
," a source who participates in the assembly of the Néstor Kirchner Justicialista School, the brand new think tank that the former President will present this Thursday at the Teatro Argentino de La Plata, assured this newspaper, an excuse to his keynote talk entitled "Circular Argentina, the IMF and its historical recipe for inflation and recession", in a more than particular context.
In the midst of the renegotiation of the Minister of Economy with the Monetary Fund.
For about two months the leaders of these two sectors of the coalition have been working on the EJNK project -it arose, according to reports, from a talk between the trade unionist
Víctor Santa María and Máximo Kirchner-
, but the reappearance of the former President comes just one week after the President's announcement, that he deactivated his re-election attempt - strictly speaking, not even his main advisers supported this hypothesis - a decision that Kirchnerism had been waiting for a long time.
At the UEJN organization table, which had some meetings with the vice president,
Nicolás Trotta
, from UMET, former Minister of Education of the Santa María kidney, left the government at odds with the President;
Mónica Litza
, deputy of the Renewal Front;
Virginia Garcia
;
AFIP official who is extremely trusted by the former President;
Rodrigo "Rodra" Rodríguez
, from La Cámpora, secretary of the lower house, and
Claudia Bernazza
-from the Instituto Patria.
Albertism, out of everything
There is not a single chair for Albertism, and
this Thursday there will be no benchmark for that sector at the Teatro Argentino in La Plata
: as confirmed by their entourage, neither Agustín Rossi, nor Santiago Cafiero, nor Aníbal Fernández, to mention a few, will be of the game
Much less the head of state.
Minister Gabriel Katopodis, who this Tuesday requested an urgent meeting between Fernández, Massa and the former President, will be traveling.
As this newspaper was able to reconstruct,
Victoria Tolosa Paz
and the publicist Enrique "Pepe" Albistur could be there: collaborators of both highlighted that they received the invitation.
"It is a construction of an agenda for the future," explained the organizers.
The future, for now, looks bleak.
On Saturday, while the head of La Cámpora and the Buenos Aires PJ called to mobilize to accompany the vice president to La Plata from the plenary session at the Ferrocarril Oeste club, the Minister of Social Development led her own act in Ensenada with the chief of staff, the Minister of Security and the Chancellor with strong criticism of the K.
In Kirchnerism, that staging went down badly.
Even so, Tolosa Paz and Albistur -maintains a good relationship with that sector- are analyzing their presence.
The minister was one of those who, despite the internal tension, opened channels for conversations with the K.
The truth is that, once Fernández announced that he will not compete in the elections,
Kirchnerism and massismo accelerated negotiations in the face of an electoral campaign that forecasts a very uncertain outlook for the Front of All
.
The currency crisis of these days added more anxiety.
It is not ruled out, even, to modify the name of the party seal.
Massa, absent with notice in La Plata
For now, the congress of the Renewing Front scheduled for next week is close to being cancelled:
Massa does not want to be the center of an operational outcry while he is negotiating with the Monetary Fund and the reserve crisis puts his presidential candidacy in jeopardy
.
This Thursday he will not be in La Plata: he travels to Montevideo to close an agreement with CAF.
Sergio Massa will not be at the event this Thursday in La Plata.
Between Massismo and Kirchnerism, a campaign hypothesis is being worked on with a single candidate who, for now, continues to have the minister at the top of preferences, beyond the crisis, and to a lesser extent Eduardo "Wado" de
Pedro
, which in recent days publicly slowed down while from massismo they did, under their breath, the opposite.
The unknown that arises is whether the bet will be for a single applicant, or not.
And if, in that case, he is or is not the head of the Palacio de Hacienda.
Cristina and Máximo Kirchner differ in some opinions
.
Daniel Scioli
, meanwhile, still insists on going to a STEP.
His project depends on the strength with which Albertism arrives in the coming weeks.
The signs are not good.
A speech that generates expectations
There is a very high expectation in this sense around Cristina Kirchner's speech.
Not only because of a possible personal definition, which this Wednesday was ruled out in her environment.
If not, based on the title of her master class, and because of the forcefulness, or not, of the support she plans to give Massa while
Leonardo Madcur and Gabriel Rubinstein
fly to Washington to negotiate with the Fund's technicians.
Axel Kicillof refuses to jump into the electoral fight for the Presidency.
A sector of Kirchnerism -
Carlos Bianco ,
Axel Kicillof
's main adviser
, made it public again via Twitter this Wednesday - continues to cling to the possibility of a presidential candidacy for the vice president despite the fact that, in private, Cristina Kirchner herself took charge of to discredit.
The possibility that she is a candidate for senator for the province of Buenos Aires has a little more support.
It is that the ruling party needs her on the ballot in Buenos Aires territory:
she still retains high popularity
.
look too
Kirchnerism used the phrase of Alberto Fernández's pen to ask for Cristina Kirchner and mock the President
Alberto Fernández got off an act in the Conurbano in the midst of the economic crisis