Ten days have passed since the iconic and shameful moment that Cristina Kirchner starred on that Sunday, October 26, in the midst of the unexpected defeat of Peronism at the national level but above all in the Province. With the result in place, which left the ghostly Jorge Taiana one point below Diego Santilli, Governor Axel Kicillof came out to explain that they lost “barely”, a phrase that may not be the happiest. But what CFK did, at the same time, overshadowed everything else: he started dancing on his prison balcony at San José 1111. Yes, dancing, with a smile on his face and with evident enjoyment of what had just happened to his rival in the Peronist prison, being defeated in his own territory.
The reason why Cristina was dancing, in short, was because she considered that this setback left her in a bad position. That the fall in the Province was good news because it maintained it with authority and veto power within Peronism, which would not have occurred in the event of a new victory like the one in September: this scenario would have positioned Kicillof as Milei’s undisputed “challenger” in 2027 and at the same time diluted the influence of the former president. Instead, now they are tied: since Axel lost, Cristina won.
The harsh letter that CFK published in recent days, in which it blamed the governor for the idea of the split that allowed it to win in September but ended in a fiasco in October, also goes in the same direction: the person to blame for the result, according to Cristina, is Axel. The same thing that the no longer so young Máximo Kirchner suggested, with his morisquetas, in the bunker of defeat, shaking his head and gesticulating while the governor spoke. But the truth is that in Peronism itself today, voices are multiplying – from governors to mayors – that urge the boss to step aside, to give the spotlight to the new generations, to let the movement generate green shoots and fall in love again. Many claim it in a low voice, others speaking out. In Kicillof terms, it would be starting to play a new song.
But Cristina is still there, dancing the same as always on her VIP balcony.
