He could not do more in his attempt to bring positions closer. Alberto Fernandez dedicated himself to carrying out explicit Kirchnerism so that his running mate, Cristina Kirchner, not keep shooting him in the feet; he targeted the countryside and the businessmen; he chose the Supreme Court as an enemy and, next to its side Martin Guzman, announced a new IFE bond. In a few weeks he did a complete review of the K manual, looking for coincidences. But it does not work.
The truce that the President had proposed was unsuccessful: after an act in which the unity of Peronism had been proposed, they crossed paths again. And the Labor Day mobilization shows that the differences seem, at least for the moment, insurmountable.
disunited
It had been a long time since a Kirchnerist praised Alberto Fernández, as Axel Kicillof did at the event he organized in Florencio Varela, on Monday the 25th. “What I want to do is thank Juanchi and, through him, the President because this could not have been done without the help of the national government,” he said at the presentation of a school food reinforcement, to which he invited to the albertist Juan ZabaletaMinister of Social Development, in a sign of peace. Máximo Kirchner was also in the game and that was another way of making it clear that the Front continued to belong to Everyone.
But the act of unity had a fleeting effect. This time it was the fielder Andrés “Cuervo” Larroque the one in charge of producing the new crack. In a radio interview, the Buenos Aires official pointed to Guzmán, the main objective of Kirchnerism: “No one voted for him”, he crossed it.
On the other side, the answers were not long in coming: “Nobody voted for Cuervo either. He occupies a ministry because he is a friend of Máximo”, answered Luis D’Elía, who for some time has occupied the first row of the Albertista defense.
Fissure
The differences deepen again in the mobilization of May 1. It is that the Peronist celebrations were a factor of constant tension in the Government: Loyalty Day and March 24 mark the latest evidence of that. This Sunday, Labor Day, is one more example.
In the traditional mobilization of the PJ, the Evita Movement goes to the Plaza de Mayo, dragging the social organizations close to the President. Máximo and La Cámpora will not be present: the deputy’s activity is on Saturday in Baradero, in a meeting with unions from Buenos Aires.
After a lukewarm attempt to bring the parties closer together, the cold returns to run through the Casa Rosada. The truce did not last at all.
There are no more sketches to plan the rapprochement between the President and the Vice. No leader trusts in a return to dialogue between Albert and Christina, at least in the short term. For now, they are satisfied with governing with a certain tranquility. Although that is also in doubt.
