President Alberto Fernández differed from the electoral strategy of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in an interview he gave on Sunday to El Diario, in which he also again showed discrepancies with Economy Minister Sergio Massa.
Fernández expressed himself publicly just over 48 hours after the vice president of the Nation, in a report with C5N, questioned some decisions of his administration and recognized the need of the Frente de Todos to guarantee entering the second round, since he foresaw "a scenario of thirds" with Together for Change and the libertarian Javier Milei.
"It's very difficult to predict scenarios. All pollsters account for people's refusal to respond to the pollster, but we take it for granted that we have an electorate divided into thirds. I can't understand what it means to 'guarantee the third,'" the president said.
When asked again about Cristina's statement, Fernández clearly marked a difference of opinion. "It is obvious that you have to work to retain your own vote, the secret is to go beyond the faithful in order to guarantee success. What is the use of guaranteeing my floor, my third, and entering the second round, if in that instance I do not add votes?" he asked.
Emphasizing that point again, the president further expressed the differences in the electoral analysis he has with Cristina, who four years ago was his running mate and with whom he currently has almost no dialogue.
"The secret is to break the thirds. In this sense, the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries, to the extent that they allow broad participation, will generate a great militant mobilization and will promote greater adherence. Without this mobilization, at most we will crystallize the third we have according to the analysis that is made. With that, it is difficult to win," the president said.
In addition, Fernández again expressed his idea about "democratizing" the FdT, something that could be done through the election of candidates in a PASO, a position that goes against Massa's request to look for a single candidate without an intern.
The head of state insisted on questioning the supposed "interests of the powerful" and pointed to the other candidates who are positioned well in the polls: Javier Milei and Together for Change.
According to the head of state, the deputy and libertarian leader "is not anti-system, but the consolidation of the system"; At the same time, he considered the presidential candidates of the coalition as "partners of the powerful".
"There was only one Perón, not one is born per decade"
He was also very explicit when he insisted on ending personalisms within Justicialism, in another clear allusion to the former president of the nation.
"I don't think Peronism can continue to be personalist, top-down and all the things it was when Perón lived. There will be people with more leadership capacity, there will be people with a lot of charisma, but they are not Perón," the president said when asked about the way his vice president conducted.
In another section of the report, she and Néstor Kirchner understood them as "two central figures" for Peronism, although she insisted, again marking differences: "But there was only one Perón in history, not one is born per decade," he analyzed.
Finally, President Fernández acknowledged that the relationship with the vice president is totally broken. "I hoped that wouldn't happen," he lamented during the report he gave.
At the same time he said he did not want to "have problems of distancing with the Kirchner family again" because it hurt him for the memory of the deceased former president, of whom he was his chief of staff, from 2003 to 2007. A year later, in the presidency of Cristina, Fernández resigned, due to differences with the management.
"But well, man proposes and God disposes," the president said on the subject. And he revealed that the "click" in the link occurred - as he related - when she proposed to impose a series of ideas with which he did not agree.
Rossi throws himself and Scioli doesn't get off
During Sunday, in addition, another who spoke was Agustín Rossi, the cabinet chief, who confirmed that in the coming days he will make his presidential candidacy official.
"I will make a formal announcement that I will be a candidate for president," Rossi said in an interview with CNN Radio. "We will have to see if between now and June 24 a candidacy of synthesis emerges, which expresses us all and contains the majority will of the Frente de Todos. And if there is no such synthesis, there will be PASO," he said about the possibility of closing a single candidate.
Another who has defined play in any circumstance is Daniel Scioli, the first of the Frente de Todos who announced that he will be a candidate in August, with or without PASO in between.
The former governor of Buenos Aires province appeared at an event Saturday with Victoria Tolosa Paz, national social development minister, who has aspirations to compete for the governorship of Buenos Aires.
According to sources close to Scioli, the decision of the current ambassador is "immovable", beyond the fact that from the coalition, or Cristina Kirchner herself, they advance with a single candidacy and deactivate the PASO.
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