December 20, 2022. 14 days passed from CFK’s resignation. That the Argentine soccer team came out world champion, only two. Now the plane that brings Messi and the rest of the players has just landed in the country. It’s 2:56 in the morning and Peter’s Wado He moves fast: he sees 10 coming and tries to meet him, throw him a hug, pose for the most wanted photo of those days. However, Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia it is even more alive. She crosses it and wraps her arms around him, taking the mark with her. It’s a small anecdote, but it illustrates who is the man who wants to fight Daniel Scioli on the inside: he’s hungry and is encouraged to take even one more step, even when it could leave him offside.
In fact, it is on that fine line that he has been moving since, after the 2021 electoral defeat, he was the first to present his resignation as minister. He was a blow to the heart and to the authority of Alberto Fernandez, with whom the personal relationship they had managed to build exploded. The President now keeps “Wadito”, as he used to call him affectionately, something akin to contempt. In that Albertist circle, in fact, they had been noticing – and mistrusting – for more than a year about the final intentions of his minister.
Fernández and his family kept in their retinas the entire long series of “presidential” movements that De Pedro made at this time. The tour with seven governors to Israel in April 2022, the trip with nine provincial leaders and the US ambassador, Mark Stanleyto the United States in September of that year, the ant work he did by visiting mayors from all over the country and maintaining contacts and presence at red circle events, and the list could go on.
This is how the last years of the Minister of the Interior were: a long procession of movements -which included unexpected photos like his smiling with Jorge Rendo, a Clarín shareholder, and Fernán Saguier, from La Nación- with whom he sought to establish himself as a “moderate camper”, a drinkable option in the event of an emergency, an alchemy that aroused deep hatred in internal rivals.
The W-plan
until the last minute Kirchnerism candidacies they were on hold. It was not, as happened on other occasions in this space, a mystery game, rather it was not even defined among the priests. In fact, at the time this edition went to press, massismo was still making a lot of effort to make the “unity” candidate its leader, and not another. “Do you think that Sergio did all this to keep seeing it from the outside?” is a reflection that was heard through the corridors of the Ministry of Economy.
De Pedro, however, always trusted his chances. Since CFK’s last act in the Plaza de Mayo he began to move as if he already knew that he was going to be the designated candidate, even though that was open to debate. His face began to appear on the streets of the entire City and the suburbs with the slogan “Wado presidente”, the account on social networks @la_remiseriawho manages his press team and who has insisted on his candidacy for a long time, began to redouble the bet in his posts, and he even starred in a trip to Tucumán de Manzur hours after the provincial victory in the elections.
In the “wadismo” they understood that the primary was useful for them, after a not too complex victory against Daniel Scioli, whom they underestimated, “validate” De Pedro as a candidate. But the ghost of another handpicked presidential candidate haunted everyone in Unión por la Patria. In this sense, the appearance of “Wado” was cause for celebration in the rival bunker. But the celebration barely lasted 24 hours. Sergio Massa and Juan Manuel Olmos They negotiated the removal of Scioli, and with the endorsement of the governors, the Minister of Economy pressured CFK to remove Wado. “I was not going to have the approval of the president”Cristina justified to explain the change of direction.
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