At Casa Rosada, the speech of Cristina Kirchner in the plenary of the CTA the day of the Flag was listened to with concern. Not because the public harangued the speaker shouting “president” or because they applauded her every time she criticized her running mate: her shooting at social organizations was what alerted them. Alberto Fernandez he knew he had to answer that provocation, he couldn’t let it go. After all, it is one of the few pillars on which its management is based.
Hours after the vice opened a new flank in his battle against everyone, the President publicly contradicted her, adding another chapter to the most important power dispute in Argentina.
Faced with the crisis and the problems of managing Alberto Fernandez, Cristina choose to isolate. At times, the vice even seems to be part of the opposition: it has open fronts against the Minister of Economy, Martin Guzmanbut also with President of the Central Bank, Miguel Ángel Pesce. To his usual criticism of the Supreme Court, now added a furious protest against social organizations. The vice goes for everything. And against everyone.
Final fight
“If Evita lived, mommy,” Cristina said euphorically, after having thrown the last grenade. This time, against the piqueteros organizations for their intermediation in the delivery of social plans. “I don’t like that they want to convince me that this is Peronism. Peronism is labor; It is not depending on a neighborhood leader to discharge me”, he sentenced.
Those paragraphs would be the talk of all the leaders, of the ruling party and the opposition, during the following days. In short, the vice did not claim for more or less assistance, but because the money is distributed by mayors, to reduce the power of the Avoid Movement. “It takes the plans out of the organizations to give them to La Cámpora”, protested Luis D’Elía. It is the softest thing he said to her: he indicated that this idea was a “political suicide” and that the former president “declared war on us.” He was seconded by each of the social leaders.
In the same act of Avellaneda, the vice pointed to one of his favorite enemies: Justice. He assured that in Argentina there is a “judicial party”. But criticism of that sector no longer comes with force, so repetitive. Moreover, hours after those references, Cristina would receive one of the most momentous setbacks of recent times.
It is that the Supreme Court ruled against a series of appeals that had been filed in the Cause roadwhich investigates the management of public works in Santa Cruz, and now they left her exposed to an accusation of illicit association that could be up to 16 years in prison. A strong kickback.
“The Court’s decision has technical errors,” protested the vice attorney, Carlos Beraldi, who does not usually make public statements unless the issue is of major relevance.
These decisions had her. The legal advocate of Cristina was part of the advisory commission that sought to reform the highest court of Justice. The confrontation is complete.
foot shots
The vice’s firepower seems to have limits. It is that, until now, every time he targeted an official he managed to get Alberto to end up removing him: Matías Kulfas, Marcela Losardo, Juan Pablo Biondi and Santiago Cafiero -run from the Chief of Staff- are witnesses of that. However, Cristina could never Miguel Ángel Pesce nor with Martín Guzmán.
The Minister of Economy is a factor of discussion from the first minute of management. “They hit me from everywhere”, he usually tells his interlocutors when they point out the critics of the Instituto Patria and La Cámpora.
But, despite being the favorite target, Guzmán has just broken a record: with more than 900 days in office, he is the economy minister who lasted the longest in a Kirchner government. Not bad, given the context.
Pesce runs with the same fate. CFK he wants it out, there is no middle ground. He never approved his statement in the Senate, so he is the president of the Central Bank “in commission”, that is, he could be fired only with a simple decree.
The last speech of the vice president configured a complete list of her enemies. From the albertismo they looked for different ways to achieve peace, but far from that, Cristina adds more and more battles.
The warning to Scioli
former governor Daniel Scioli returned to the national scene after the resignation of Matias Kulfas. He has, deep down, an illusion that motivates him: his presidential rematch at the polls in 2023. However, Cristina Kirchner He has already sent her a warning: there will be no candidacy if she does not bless him. For this reason, as soon as the former ambassador to Brazil entered the Cabinet, the vice president crossed over: he attacked the President, to the BCRA, the AFIP, the Customs and also to the Ministry of Production for the flight of dollars. “There is a festival of imports,” she indicated. And Scioli, after meeting with businessmen, gave him the right: “We will have to be very careful that speculative imports are not carried out,” he replied submissive to the vice president’s observation.
