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More and more 'garrochistas' are jumping from Albertism to Kirchnerism

2023-04-28T19:49:58.338Z


Minister Tolosa Paz, officials with an office in La Rosada, trade unionists, mayors and friends of the President count with nuances.


Albertism

was never born

.

The block of leaders who bet on the leadership of the President gradually disintegrated together with the re-election chances of the head of state.

The majority returned to seek shelter under the wing of

Cristina Kirchner and Sergio Massa

, the main shareholders of the Frente de Todos.

The last to jump into the Kirchner camp was

Victoria Tolosa Paz

, for whom the president had to fight to register her as the first candidate for deputy in the

losing legislatures of 2021

.

The Minister of Social Development had just led the relaunch of her group Camino a la Victoria on Saturday.

The last handful of officials

who are referenced in

Alberto Fernández

attended the event in Ensenada

: the chief of staff

Agustín Rossi

,

Foreign Minister

Santiago Cafiero

, Security Minister

Aníbal Fernández

, who publicly rejects that the Vice President is outlawed.

Five days after asking for the PASO, Tolosa Paz was,

as Clarín anticipated

, at the Teatro Argentino de La Plata to listen to the former president.

"The master class given by the vice president and partner @CFKArgentina provides certainty and sets us the course to follow," tweeted the minister who arrived in the Buenos Aires capital accompanied by her husband Enrique Albistur, a personal friend of Fernández, but with a calculated dialogue with the Vice.

“What little time has passed since the act on Saturday?

It seems to them, because they are used to Alberto's procrastination

”, ironized a leader who works side by side with the minister and does not rule out that at the last minute she becomes

Axel Kicillof 's running mate

, although they continue to look with ambition and more realism at the intendancy of La Plata, hometown of Tolosa Paz.

The Vice President thanked her for her kindness in naming her in her

75-minute presentation

, a deference that she only had with Massa.

In the act of the Vice in La Plata there were several

deserters of the unborn albertismo

, which includes some gray ones.

Daniel Filmus

, for example, came to the Ministry of Science after the resignation of

Ricardo Salvarezza

, one of the few resignations that the President accepted after the

riot ordered by CFK

after the defeat in PASO.

The return of Filmus to the Cabinet - along with that of Aníbal Fernández and later that of Rossi - was intended to install the idea that the Vice President was not the owner of the movement that inspired her last name.

More resonant would have been the finally frustrated presence of Juan Manuel Olmos in La Plata.

The deputy chief of staff, who accompanied Fernández's aspirations from zero hour, in the old bunker on Calle México, was invited, and had planned to go, but was delayed in a meeting with the President and the head of SIGEN, according to They explained in the environment of the official.

Olmos is more

in tune with Massa's presidential aspirations

since before Fernández declined his candidacy. 

Jorge Ferraresi and Gabriel Katopodis

were in the audience

.

In 2021, both were part of the nucleus of

mayor ministers together with Juan Zabaleta

who intended to give another political volume to the Casa Rosada.

From Monday lunches with the President at La Rosada, Ferraresi - who never left the vice presidency of the Patria Institute - went to the table in Ensenada asking for a CFK candidacy while Zabaleta returned to Hurlingham.

The Minister of Public Works is the only one who remains firm in his position and he was also the only minister who publicly asked for a meeting between the Fernández family and Massa to bring political and economic predictability in the middle of the bullfight.

His request only had

an echo below and no success

, although the Minister of Economy and the President shared an act again this Friday at the CCK, where the president had a secondary role.

Former Minister of Education Nicolás Trotta.

Photo: Reuters/Agustin Marcarian

Next to Cristina was the former Minister of Education

Nicolás Trotta

, who has not spared criticism of Fernández for months.

His presence is explained by the movement of his political boss, Víctor Santamaría, one of the first garrochistas to jump from the Albertista camp to Christianity who, in addition to Trotta, resigned from the Media Secretariat controlled by Francisco

Meritello

.

The media businessman and trade unionist has known the President since the time when both were active together in the

PJ of Buenos Aires

.

He shared with the President and Julio Vitobello, among others, the list with which

Domingo Cavallo

lost in the 1999 elections. He is now the factotum of the Néstor Kirchner Justicialista School in whose inauguration 

CFK criticized the father of convertibility

.

Among the attendance at the CFK act there were also referents of the

Evita Movement

, such as the deputy Leonardo Grosso and the mayor of Moreno Mariel Fernández.

The Emilio Pérsico

group

, which this week

closed ranks with Sergio Massa

, was the President's main territorial and militant support in the 2021 campaign and in the face of each of Fernández's challenges to his Kirchnerism partners.

Also, when 6 ministers leaked his resignation to the media in September 2021.

Among them was

Martín Soria

, from Justice, who was never an albertista but was supposed to come to replace the President's former partner, Marcela Losardo, to prevent Kirchnerism from being left with a sensitive Portfolio.

The same happened with

Juan Cabandié

, intellectual author of the reunion between the Fernández in 2018, who inaugurated the experiment of the Frente de Todos.

Pérsico, from the Secretary of Social Economy of Social Development, has already seen three ministers

pass by

.

Three convinced Albertists who took another path: Daniel

Arroyo, Zabaleta and Tolosa Paz

.

The first returned to the

hosts of massismo

in Deputies.

The same movements take place in the CGT.

Héctor Daer went from propping up the chances of the President to those of the Minister of Economy.

As with Tolosa, Fernández managed to impose his friend,

Leandro Santoro

, as the first candidate in the City in 2021. "

They stopped calling me

," he lamented last December, although in the Capital he is in tension with La Cámpora despite that he claims to be a Kirchnerist alfonsinista.

Victoria Donda

left with criticism from INADI, but

immediately got a job in the government

.

Daniel Scioli was shown with Mayra Mendoza in a meeting in Quilmes.

The decline of albertistas has other motivations besides the loss of power of the President.

There are not a few who do not forget that

Fernández did not defend his troops

 from him before each attack of Christianity or Massa's advance.

Their own always left: from

Juan Pablo Biondi

, to Losardo,

Gustavo Beliz

,

Matías Kulfas

,

Sabina Frederic or

Daniel Scioli

himself

, who also does not hide his underground rapprochement (and not so much) with Kirchnerism.

Source: clarin

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