“The campaign has started Cristina Libre, a campaign that is shit“, he summarized Luis D’Elia in one of his usual participations in the AM 530 streaming. The social leader referred to the figure of the former president Cristina Kirchner in very harsh terms, but in accordance with the comments he has been making publicly in different media for months. “When there were 53 comrades imprisoned, the only thing you said, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, was that you did not put your hand in the fire for anyone. For any of the 53 comrades imprisoned and now you want us all to defend you,” she emphasized.
With the histrionics that characterizes him, the leader of the MILES group said: ““You were not in prison yet, but in San José 1111 drinking coffee.” In the media monologue, D’Elia recalled the “thousand days” that he was deprived of his freedom in two different prison units and mentioned the procedural situation of the social leader from Jujuy. Milagros Salas. A stinging statement, by the social activist, about the judicial situation of many figures of Kirchnerism who, for a long time, have been forgotten or left aside in the claim for lawfare indicated by the former president.
A long time ago, D’Elía deepened his break with the leadership of La Cámpora after launching harsh accusations against the former president and her son, Maximo Kirchner, exposing the fracture in Peronism to the maximum. Through radio statements, posts on networks and streaming interviews, the historic piquetero leader of the Federation of Land and Housing (FTV) He charged against the leadership of the former president in the Peronist opposition. He even denounced manipulation in Cristina Kirchner’s selective role vis-à-vis the leaders who ended up behind bars for defending their political project.
The main reproach that D’Elia makes to the former president lies in what he considers a total abandonment of those who were the “most loyal soldiers” of Kirchnerism during the governments of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner. Under that line of argument, he criticized Kirchner for not having made a gesture of institutional or personal containment during that confinement, questioning that the leader never called him or actively accompanied the territorial militancy that paid with his freedom for having put the body in the streets. He also argued that genuine leadership is not artificially inherited from offices, but is validated by presence on the asphalt and in the cells.
This accusation of abandonment of the imprisoned leaders is directly connected with the position that D’Elía adopted in the fierce internal power dispute of Buenos Aires Peronism. In his latest comments in the media, he rejected that the La Cámpora group intends to impose itself as the only path or driving option. Within that premise, Kirchnerism in recent years has weakened and politically suffocated figures like Axel Kicillof. Given this panorama, the social leader openly urged the governor of the province of Buenos Aires to “face the past” and directly dispute the leadership of the Peronist movement.
However, by far the greatest virulence of the speeches issued by D’Elía on digital streaming platforms was directed without filters towards Máximo Kirchner, whose political legitimacy he does not know at its roots. With criticism of a strictly personal and political nature, the former Land and Housing official targeted the figure of the national deputy using texts with high media impact: In his defenses, he went into depth: “Who are you? What did you do in Kirchnerism? What history do you have? None. While your father was alive you were nobody. In Kirchnerism you were nobody.”
Added to these statements were direct disqualifications about the private life and the alleged misconduct of the camp leader in the digital interviews, where the picketer fired: “Today this… a drug addict who from Monday to Sunday is up until five in the morning with scabio, minitas, drugs… The kid has serious addiction problems, we all see it.” Luis D’Elía’s media outburst makes visible an absolute and irreversible fracture within Kirchnerism, exposing the fatigue of the old territorial sectors before the heirs designated by the party leadership.
