The provincial senator and former Minister of Security Sergio Berni He entered fully into the Peronist internal race for 2027 and issued an ultimatum to the Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof: if you do not recognize the leadership of Cristina Kirchnerthe movement will have to look for another name for the presidency.
“If he does not accept Cristina’s strategic leadership, we will look for another candidate,” Berni said in an interview. And he concluded: “I hope it is Kicillof, but no one is essential in life.”
The central point of tension that Berni raised is the governor’s ambiguity regarding hard Kirchnerism. For the senator, Kicillof must decide if he wants to represent all the peronism or limit himself to leading what he called “progres Peronism” or “left-wing Peronism”, a current that he compared to the management of Alberto Fernandez and bluntly described it as a failure. “Kicillof has to make a decision. If he wants to be the presidential candidate of all Peronism and embrace all Peronism or be a candidate of that left-wing Peronism,” he launched. “What you cannot do is doubt or act distracted,” he added.
Berni also pointed out the governor’s environment, which he described as busier in “personal business” and individual positions than in building strategic thinking for the country. Along these lines, he warned that the tactics that Kicillofism has been applying in the province of Buenos Aires is not expanding the Peronist base but rather shrinking itand stated that when tactics are not coordinated with strategy, “the drums of defeat appear.”
Regarding the relationship between the governor and the former president, Berni was categorical: national strategic leadership cannot be ignored without electoral consequences. For anyone who wants to reach the Casa Rosada, he said, speeches are not enough: “You have to have enough balls to put everyone in their place.”
