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Alberto Fernández's new challenge to Cristina Kirchner: he wants her to whiten her strategy for the STEP

2023-05-01T18:57:11.261Z


The President insists that there be internal competition in the Front of All. Those who frequent it say that Alberto Fernández is "liberated" , as if having announced his decision not to seek re-election would have left Kirchnerismo without further arguments to continue demarcating its responsibility. With that peace of mind, last week, prior to Cristina's reappearance, the President reaffirmed his intention that there would be internal competition in the Frente de Todos an


Those who frequent it say that

Alberto Fernández is "liberated"

, as if having announced his decision not to seek re-election would have left Kirchnerismo without further arguments to continue demarcating its responsibility.

With that peace of mind, last week, prior to Cristina's reappearance, the

President reaffirmed his intention that there would be internal competition in the Frente de Todos

and he noted as part of the space that he considers that "there should be no one who points to a unique candidate.

After the act in which the vice president made it clear that she did not change her decision not to want to run, at least for President, in the Casa Rosada they remarked that

Fernández's position is "firmer than ever"

and that the majority shareholder of the coalition "not only did not say that it does not want a STEP, but it gave signs of the opposite."

Strictly speaking, beyond her definition that she stepped down from a candidacy ("No, no, President, no") for a third term,

Cristina did not decide on the electoral strategy

: she only stated that "it is not a person " and urged "to build a government program".

But the absence of a pronouncement that would support the statements of different Kirchnerist referents and La Cámpora regarding the need to agree on a single candidate left the argument for those who demand a STEP.

Among them the President.

Along these lines, the first Albertista voice to install the theme was that of the Minister of Social Development,

Victoria Tolosa Paz

, one of the President's battering rams, along with Aníbal Fernández (Security).

"Cristina has not yet declared herself convinced of the benefits of a single candidate

," she warned.

In the environment of the official, who despite being an unconditional friend of the head of state was present at the event in La Plata, they ask not to speculate: "Victoria does not ask for permission to comment politically," they clarify, disconnecting the president.

Interns in the Province?


Indeed, in parallel to Fernández's challenge at the national level,

the woman from La Plata has been pressing to open the discussion for the lists in Buenos Aires territory

, "I did not hear the vice president, in any of her interventions, point out that in the province of Buenos Aires We are going with a single candidate. Not to mention that Axel Kicillof is yes or yes governor". 

Although they also perjure that "nobody sent Victoria to say anything", in the Casa Rosada they point out that their argument "is valid".

"So far, the only ones we've heard who don't want a PASO are from La Cámpora. And not even all of them, because Wado (by Eduardo De Pedro) said publicly that we all have the right to go to a PASO," said an important official of the Executive.

According to this reasoning, without a clear line from Cristina,

there is no unanimity in hard Kirchnerism

.

And therefore there is no reason to give in to the pressure K so that the candidacies are cleared so that the vice nominates a single candidate.

"If Cristina is behind the kids' request, she is going to have to say it," the same source slides maliciously.

In any case, it does not seem just a claim by Alberto: in addition to

Daniel Scioli

and

Agustín Rossi

, who were willing to compete as pre-candidates for President for the Casa Rosada;

The piquetero leader Juan Grabois

(Frente Patria Grande) and the former director of Banco Nación

Claudio Lozano

(Popular Unity)

also signed up for the FdT .

unit at risk


The lack of internal competition can

jeopardize the unity of the FdT

.

And Fernández was in charge of exposing it in the interview he gave last Monday, when he admitted that Peronism "lacked internal democracy."

"In 2021,

more than 90 lists were out of competition

due to a political decision," he questioned, in a

clear allusion to Máximo Kirchner's order

that there be only one ballot.

He failed to add that he endorsed that measure and that the only one who raised his voice was the Buenos Aires Minister of Security, Sergio Berni, irritated because he had to lower the candidates of his group, "La 20 de Noviembre".

Despite the fact that both

Kirchnerism and Sergio Massa's Frente Renovador strive to isolate Fernández

, the resistance of the Casa Rosada complicates the plans to reach the act of May 25 on July 9 -according to some ultra K leaders, is still going strong - with Cristina as the great organizer of the presidential candidacy.

"Let the people define"

, they insist close to Fernández.

The challenge is installed.

look too

Elections 2023: striking rise of the Frente de Todos in the latest survey of the most anti-K consultant

A survey confirms the fear of Cristina Kirchner and shows the Frente de Todos third for a STEP

Source: clarin

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