The other battle for the pen: after Cristina's act, Máximo Kirchner advances on the list of suburban bosses

It is a moment of tension as frequent and earthly as the one that usually appears in the run-up to family Christmas or New Year celebrations: who to spend it with and where.

The same thing happens in Greater Buenos Aires every time an election arrives: the

that will write the proper names of the lists to provincial councilors or legislators.

The powerful Peronist mayors of the Conurbano are not always so powerful.

Or at least,

when it comes to designing their own local lists, which they will lead in the search for their re-election.

Máximo, as head of the PJ, managed to align the heads of the GBA.

Now the fight for the places in the lists begins.

All the caciques, in one way or another, have to pass through the

of La Cámpora.

They do not want to refuse, although they could and would like to.

Máximo Kirchner's Salieris seem to have

thanks to the boost given to them by Cristina's reappearance last week.

When it comes to winning elections, the group of the son of the Vice Presidency has a hard time advancing from the splash.

But they have managed to excel in the art of

on the mayors.

"I have achieved some kind of fairly reasonable coexistence with those kids who, for the most part,

. Obviously the tension is going to grow with each passing day and that we are closer to

(NdR: closing of the deadline for the presentation of lists of pre-candidates before the party electoral boards)", points out a Peronist chief from the Northern Conurbano.

The Cámpora in the elections usually makes water with its own seal but they have improved the art of pressure: they are going to put their own people on almost all the suburban lists.

"If you don't confront them, they want to take over everything from you. They are voracious and fight among themselves to see who got the most and then

I have them controlled, with various positions in the Cabinet and on the list of councilors I give them the second place. What I do is start from now so that I can also choose that proper name that I have to give to La Cámpora. In short,

, "he indicates in dialogue with

The

of the mayors in their negotiation with the space of Máximo Kichner is Facundo Tignanelli.

The head of the bench of Buenos Aires deputies is the one who ends up agreeing with the local bosses.

In addition, he is the representative of the provincial PJ. 

Martín Insaurralde's colleagues point out that the interim mayor of Lomas de Zamora is the one who best negotiates with Máximo.

"It is a whole

First, each of the mayors set up a small table for the election, in this case 2023. Those who are in that, put it, the campaign team already mark how the negotiations will be of the lists. There both we and La Cámpora played with our

With something more cooked, or not, we talked to Tignanelli. Now if things are about to rot, Máximo appears, "explains a mayor of the Second Cord.

Another community leader confesses to

"The fault is ours for shits

with the assembly of our own lists. Here, and if you send me to the front I'll kill you, the The only one who fixes without fighting is Martín (for Insaurralde). It was he who lined us all up behind La Cámpora. Later we complained that they want to wear us."

Mario Ishii and Fernando Espinoza are the ones who stand up to La Cámpora the most in their districts.

in the GBA.

Máximo Kirchner's organization only has one mayor: Mayra Mendoza.

Two representatives, one of the strongest in La Cámpora in the Conurbano, reject that they want to "fuck" the mayors.

"We respect them because they are the ones who won the elections. Territorial power belongs to them and we hardly get involved.

. After they count it as they want" they tell

There, perhaps, lies

How much electoral support does Cristina really have in Greater Buenos Aires?

Above all, in the most neglected and remote places, such as the Third Electoral Cordon.

"Look, the reality is that every day that passes, Cristina has been losing votes. That is what has been demonstrated in each election. That does not mean that she does not continue to have a high floor

In addition, many of those who support Cristina are the ones who

They are the ones that take us the most effort and cost us the most: there are times when we have to

of the Party to go look for them", admits a mayor , but from the South of the GBA.

An important legislator of Peronism indicates that Máximo, as head of the PJ, has managed

, both in the suburbs and in the interior of the province.

"There is, in general, good dialogue with all the communes.

: La Matanza, Jose C. Paz, Tigre and Hurlingham," he said.

In La Matanza, perhaps

, Fernando Espinoza always boasts of not delivering "not even a School Counselor" to La Cámpora.

His fight is with Facundo Tignanelli himself, Máximo's lieutenant who, in addition to managing the Buenos Aires PJ bloc, has

against the Matanzas cacique. 

"You have to see what the fat Ishii does now after Alberto's resignation. To win the province we need him. It is one of the places where we make the most difference, as important as Merlo or Moreno. But the fat man is as rascal as it is

. Perhaps the one who

of all of us and I don't think he will kneel down to La Cámpora. José C. Paz is going to be expensive for Máximo," describes one of the mayors of the PJ with the greatest electoral weight.

In Tigre, those promises of Sergio Massa were long gone when he assured that

" or that he was going to

.

Now the Minister of Economy is close to Maximo Kirchner, they commune in the same village, and they are going to go together to confront the Peronist chief and mayor, Julio Zamora.