While Sergio Massa insists that there is no internal competition in the PASO and a sector of Kirchnerism bets on a call from Cristina Kirchner to get off, Daniel Scioli accelerates in his arming and in the last hours agreed with the Minister of Security, Aníbal Fernández, to be formally incorporated into his campaign as electoral proxy.
Although in the Sciolismo they already claimed to have guaranteed their own structure in the 135 districts of the province of Buenos Aires to shore up the candidacy for governor of Victoria Tolosa Paz and hurried the talks with the PJ governors to define the candidates in the rest of the country, the appointment of Aníbal F. represents a challenge for those who sought to force him to decline his candidacy. which Scioli himself described as "an irreversible decision".
Daniel Scioli and Victoria Tolosa Paz shared a plenary session of the third electoral section in Lanús.
"Aníbal to be in charge of the diagram and the presentation of the lists. They are going to have to discuss with him," unobjectionable sources of the Sciolismo confirmed to Clarín, who specified that he had already been making contributions to the electoral table. From the minister's entourage they ratified the information before the consultation of this reporter.
Hannibal's contribution
Beyond the fact that in his team Scioli has leaders with a long party history and pure belonging to his space, interlocutors aware of the ambassador's decision explain that Aníbal Fernández can provide an imprint that adds to the motonaut: "To discuss issues of endorsements and regulatory issues to Aníbal you have to be prepared, it is not going to make them easy if they want to cheat us to get off", remark.
Both sectors denied that President Alberto Fernández was behind Anibal landing. "What does it have to do with it? He is not supporting anyone, he is busy making sure that his administration ends in the best possible way, it is his only concern," replied one of the voices consulted.
It happens that the speculations arise because a good part of the leaders who supported Fernández (Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero, Tolosa Paz, among others), with the exception of the deputy cabinet chief, Juan Manuel Olmos, today very close to Massa, today works for Scioli.
In addition, until the last moment Aníbal F. was the main defender of the head of state going for reelection.
In that bid, the minister had no problem openly confronting the leaders of La Cámpora, whom he accused of "never working and throwing stones from the other side." Even with the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro, the pre-candidate who today drives the group led by Máximo Kirchner.
Against Cristina's "finger"
In recent days, already very close to Scioli's campaign scheme, Aníbal F. warned that Cristina's finger was not enough to prevent an internal one.
"There is no one who has the credit to type the candidacies, unless the plane from China (Massa and Máximo Kirchner) bring it to Juan Perón. If Perón does not come, we have to go to the elections, count the votes one by one and when he finishes we will see."
In recent days, as reported by Clarín, Scioli intensified contacts with at least five PJ governors to ask them "not to join those who do not want the people to decide at the polls" and, on the other hand, to guarantee them that if they let him compete he will propose a "controlled" internal and "without grievances or disqualifications."
The presence of Aníbal F. in the armed forces opens a question in that sense. Accustomed in recent years to play freely and without conditions to make statements, now the minister must accommodate himself to the line that Scioli lowers of not responding to the attacks, as happened in recent days after massista swords such as the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Cecilia Moreau, or the Buenos Aires Minister of Transport, Jorge D'Onofrio, will criticize him. "Hannibal is crazy but he doesn't eat glass, he's going to line up," the orange ranks trust.
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