"The head of the movement is the one who has politics. Peronism will be led by the one who provokes regeneration and reflection on what happened to us.
Alberto Fernández cannot preside over the PJ, whether he asks for leave or resigns
. "
The phrase comes from the mouth of a leader of Buenos Aires Peronism who demands that the force that determined politics in the last 20 years of Argentina no longer delay a debate that gives him the option of returning, at some point, to power.
And by the way, let the last president of Justicialism
leave the party leadership
to which he agreed when Alberto emerged as a leader more similar to the democrat Raúl Alfonsín than to the slippery Fernando de la Rúa.
The force defeated in the last presidential elections is slowly beginning to address this discussion with multiple actors, most of them worn out and without credit in society:
two former presidents (Cristina Kirchner and Alberto F.), a former Minister of Economy who was its last presidential candidate;
several governors
(with one who jumped the siege like Osvaldo Jaldo from Tucumán) plus
the Buenos Aires mayors and a union center (the CGT)
with more internal noise than cohesion to face what they represent as a savage adjustment launched by President Javier Gerardo Milei.
As Clarín reported, Cristina Elisabet Kirchner is installed in her political bunker, the Instituto Patria, in an old petit hotel in the Congreso neighborhood.
There, she permanently receives those close to her, usually accompanied by her son, the national deputy Máximo.
The most common are Axel Kicillof and Mayra Mendoza: the governor is the former President's favorite or chosen one and the mayor of Quilmes gains meters for a Buenos Aires discussion.
The thing is that
Kicillof will no longer have re-election as governor and for many in Peronism, it is natural that he is the successor for the next presidential fight
.
For this reason, the Buenos Aires president does not stop confronting the economic policies of the national government, which he accuses of defunding "the people of Buenos Aires."
For this reason, the UBA economist installed in La Plata has already put together his political scheme: his Cabinet has swords for the political discussion to come.
First, it has the re-empowered
Carlos "Carli" Bianco
, who had moved back two years ago, to the detriment of Martín Insaurralde's scheme with Máximo Kirchner.
The 2023 electoral defeat plus the "Chocolate Gate" took Jesica Wanda Cirio's ex-husband out of the game, and Bianco once again became his public spokesperson and regained control of the provincial administration.
He is joined by two players with a Peronist profession: the former mayor of San Martín,
Gabriel Katopodis
, who went from managing the national public works to the Buenos Aires one and, to also be a spokesperson condemning the mileista "adjustment" and being voice that Peronism must return to militancy.
And also added to that cast (with a strong presence in the government offices) is the mayor of Avellaneda,
Jorge Ferraresi
, who resigned from the board of directors of the Instituto Patria, far from Christianity, at odds with Máximo and a public defender of whom it is necessary a profound self-criticism of the last years of Peronism.
Axel Kicillof, Cristina Kirchner and Máximo Kirchner
One more sword in the Kicillofist army is
Andrés "Cuervo" Larroque, confirmed as
provincial social minister and who stopped being a member of La Cámpora last year and created his own group "La Patria es el otro", also strongly differentiated from the son of Christina.
Advance against Maximus
In Buenos Aires Peronism, voices are already appearing that dare to suggest to Máximo that he must undertake a process of renewal of policies and leading cadres: "By doing the same as until now, we will continue to lose as we did in the majority of the 2009 elections for here," grumbles a mayor who intends for Deskirchner's Peronism to be definitively implemented.
But
several are also upset with not having a place with Kicillof and point out that the Buenos Aires mayors with their own profile and game
, today have no place in the Cabinet: mayors like Mariano
Cascallares
(Brown),
Ariel Sujarchuk
(Escobar) or
Gustavo Menéndez
(Merlo ) are not consulted by the president.
And others are there with political representation, such as Fernando Espinoza from Matanzas (godfather of the arrival of Silvina Batakis to a ministry) and the already mentioned Ferraresi from Avellaneda.
Governors in the national game
Returning to the national game,
the Riojan governor Ricardo Quintela wants to play in the national PJ (another of those who are calling for the departure of Alberto F.)
and for this reason, he is seen close to Kicillof criticizing Milei and his people.
Then Sergio Tomás Massa appears who reveals that he is holding technical team meetings with his close friends such as Guillermo Michel (involved in the politics of Entre Ríos) and is waiting for the release of an autobiographical book...
Governors Raúl Jalil, of Catamarca, and Ricardo Quintela, of La Rioja, with Alberto Fernández
In any case, at the beginning of the political discussion of Peronism,
the fear of raising the profile of several (such as Cristina or Massa) has to do with not appearing related to destabilizing attempts
.
The images of Máximo and other national deputies (last Thursday) marching with the left in the Plaza de los Dos Congresos do not seem consistent with a political option that the majority of society considers prudent and respectful of the popular mandate that Milei received recently. of 50 days.
"We cannot appear as the executioners of something that is going to happen. If the Milei project does not work, we cannot appear as those responsible.
If this experiment goes wrong, society must be clear that it was due to the inexperience and inexperience of the libertarian and not , of some rebellious move by Peronism," explains a consultant listened to by both Christianity and former Minister Massa.
Outside of that, they do not appear in what was the scheme of the Frente de Todos or Unión por la Patria, leaders with the strength to discuss the succession.
There are no national deputies or senators who can qualify for the big discussion
;
But some point out that no one saw Néstor Kirchner coming and that the same thing could happen now.
Llaryora appears
Only Martín Llaryora from Córdoba appears outside what Kirchnerism has contained since 2003
.
In recent weeks, the Mediterranean has not stopped playing hard to be the governor who gets the most out of the Milei management to support the provinces, determined that the Country Tax allocates 30% of its fundraising to co-participate.
Llaryora will continue with a high profile to position himself, beyond the fact that he will have to face serious difficulties in his province with the economic situation and with productive sectors
that do not feel that, until now, the new national government has loosened the noose around the necks of these actors.
For many, these days of parliamentary debate, the now national deputy
Miguel Ángel Pichetto is the only one who says the things that need to be said
.
And some can't stop thinking about the tough leader born in Banfield ordering Peronism not to K from outside.
If he works out for him, the transfer market could open, depending on how Milei's government experiment turns out.