After showing her dissatisfaction with the closure of lists in the ruling party that ended with Sergio Massa heading the presidential ticket of Union for the Fatherland, Vice President Cristina Kirchner called three of those involved in the conflict to her office in the Senate of the Nation.
One by one, they reached the Massa Senate, which a few hours earlier had asked Cabinet ministers to lower internal tension to help him put the campaign in order; Wado de Pedro, Minister of the Interior who had to resign his candidacy in favor of Massa by order of the vice president, and Daniel Scioli, the other of the pre-candidates for mayors who had to get off so that Massa could be a candidate.
Daniel Scioli, this Wednesday entering the Senate to meet with Cristina Kirchner.Photo: Federico López Claro
Massa arrived at the Senate, entered through the door of the Upper House and went to the office of the vice president. Asked by Clarín about the meeting, the economy minister denied the meeting, and chose to leave through the door of the Chamber of Deputies, in the same way he did last week, when he sent the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Cecilia Moreau, to publish a photo in his office to deny a meeting with the vice president that Massa himself had held a few minutes earlier in the Senate and that had been revealed. by this newspaper.
De Pedro entered through the same door of the Senate and went up to meet with Cristina Kirchner after Massa's departure.
Scioli had agreed to visit Cristina on Sunday, when the two spoke by phone after the closing of lists that left Scioli without his pre-candidacy for president. The vice president accused President Alberto Fernández and Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero of having tricked Scioli into declining his candidacy without offering him a place on the list of candidates for Deputies. In the office of the chancellor they assure that there was never the offer to Scioli by Kirchnerism.
This morning, Deputy Chief of Staff Juan Manuel Olmos, in charge of negotiating the lists as the President's delegate to Cristina and Máximo Kirchner, said that there was no concrete offer but that "it was agreed that President Alberto Fernández proposed the candidate to occupy the pre-candidacy for the vice presidency, two deputies among the first five on the list of deputies of the province of Buenos Aires and the name of who headed the list of Parlasur deputies".
Eduardo Wado De Pedro, leaving the Senate after meeting with Cristina Kirchner on Wednesday. Photo: Federico López Claro
"Alberto asked that those places be occupied by Rossi for the vice presidency, Victoria and Santiago for the places of National Deputies and Scioli to head Parlasur," said Olmos, who also maintains a very good relationship with Massa.
"Daniel said that, as he has always done, he accompanied Peronism, but that he did not want to go head of Parlasur," Olmos said.