It will be the prelude to the Congress of the National Justicialist Party next Tuesday and will influence the debate that will be partially settled in the Ferro court. The Congress of the Buenos Aires PJ led by Máximo Kirchner will meet this Saturday at the Juan Perón Sports Stadium, in González Catán, La Matanza, the main bastion of Buenos Aires Peronism.
The invitations for the 912 congressmen who will participate in the conclave that will preside over the local mayor Fernando Espinoza were sent "in a hurry", in the last week. La Cámpora wants to keep control of the political and economic representatives that the party must nominate and who may have the power to define the electoral rules of the game, enable lists or lower them like the 91 that were left on the road in the PASO 2021.
Strictly speaking, the truly defining instance will be that of the representatives of the electoral alliance that the ruling party registers on June 14 in which the Renewal Front of Sergio Massa and the minority parties of the Frente de Todos will also converge, a brand in danger of extinction since Cristina Kirchner considers that it is related to the "failure of Alberto Fernández".
However, the fact that party representatives who support a consensus candidacy instead of PASO – the discussion between the President and the Minister of Economy – are imposed in the main electoral district begins to tip the balance. Also, with a view to the National PJ Congress that Gildo Insfran will preside over and which will be attended by the head of state, the highest authority of the PJ.
The leaders who defend the primaries and the promoters of the pre-candidacy of Daniel Scioli, among whom Victoria Tolosa Paz is counted, there are last-minute calculations to know how many of their own congressmen they have. La Cámpora and the mayors of the Conurbano have already secured the minimum number of gifts they need to meet.
"It's a formality. We must call on Congress to enable the creation of electoral fronts. There is a lot of discouragement because of the turnout," says a mayor critical of Kirchner's leadership.
The agenda has already been defined and has five items. With two calls, at 10 and 12, the powers commission will be appointed, who must review the validity of the documents to note an alliance or present lists; the constitution of electoral fronts for the PASO and the general elections will be authorized and the 2022 accounting year will be approved. Finally, there will be a report of legislative blocks and another of the affiliation campaign.
"It could happen that the internal electoral board is appointed, which will be able to enable or challenge lists in the PASO and there may be a mess," they explain in the environment of a municipal chief who stomps on provincial Peronism.
The vice president of the PJ and mayor of Moreno Mariel Fernández, the vice governor Verónica Magario, the Buenos Aires cabinet chief Martín Insaurralde, the Minister of Public Works Gabriel Katopodis and Kirchner are the names that are shuffled to have delegated signatures. In other words, they would be the ones who define who will ultimately have the signature. "Everything is cooked," said a community chief who met days ago with the vice president's son. Gov. Axel Kicillof will not be of the party, but was part of the talks.
The head of La Cámpora will speak after 14 p.m. He will charge against the Supreme Court, days after the highest court suspended the candidacies of Sergio Uñac, in San Juan, and Juan Manzur, in Tucumán. His mother, who kept a suggestive silence, already expressed herself in the previous via Twitter. He described the ruling of the 4 supreme courts as "a precautionary measure against Peronism."
The Court, the photo of unity and the other congresses
The head of the Buenos Aires PJ will be tougher and will draw a continuity between the alleged proscription against the former president and Tuesday's ruling.
The La Cámpora chief's tirade against the Court may be reckless. The Supreme Court is still studying the appeal filed by the mayor of Eran Echeverría, Fernando Gray, to question the election of Kirchner as head of the Buenos Aires PJ. The cases of Tucumán and San Juan show that the Court – the main target of Kirchnerism that pushes the political trial against it – manages its own times. What would happen if he took the presidency of the party and the pen from Máximo Kirchner before the closing of the lists. The president of the Instituto Patria Oscar Parrilli has already raised it as a possible scenario.
"Anyway, the party falls now or in December. There is a very great discontent with Maximo, he does not interpret Peronism. In 2 years he did nothing important other than communiqués in favor of Cristina, "says a GBA mayor annoyed with the obedience of his peers and the governors and who imagines Peronism closer to fighting for third place than winning the runoff.
The national congressmen for the Province will take the mandate of the Buenos Aires Congress to the National Congress on Tuesday. It remains to be seen if there is time for that. Before the meeting in Ferro, the President yielded to the pressure of several ministers, governors and mayors and agreed to be photographed with Sergio Massa and Cristina Kirchner in a message of unity that he lives as one more capitulation.
On Wednesday it will be the turn of the Buenos Aires PJ congress. There is less doubt: the three representatives would be Víctor Santamaría, Juan Manuel Olmos and Mariano Recalde. In the party council last week, the Camporista senator blocked a suggestive proposal from the deputy cabinet chief, who rushed an armed with Matías Lammens and Leandro Santoro and without Kirchnerism. Olmos wanted to put in writing the willingness of the Buenos Aires PJ to participate in the Frente de Todos, a way to discourage the change of name of the electoral brand. The ally of Máximo Kirchner and president of the Buenos Aires PJ rejected the proposal and proposed a motion in which words more/words less asked to align with "everything that Cristina says." It was a chicane that was not written down and served to discourage Olmos' proposal, but which is plausible inside Peronism.