If divided to Lto Cámpora between hawks and doves, Andrés “El Cuervo” Larroque He would undoubtedly be among the first. He is the one with the toughest positions within the space that was created during Kirchnerism and, furthermore, the one who, for more than a year, has led the charge every time the president has to be confronted. Alberto Fernandez.
He has said things like: “The president was the campaign manager of a space that scored 4 points in the election of the province of Buenos Aires in 2017”, referring to his time as campaign manager of Florencio Randazzo. And also others like: “There is no albertismo. They hang out of your pocket in terms of power. Nobody does albertismo”. And this week he added a new statement that raised a stir: “I have doubts that the President intends for Peronism to win.”
Larroque has an advantage over his colleagues: he is not an official who reports to Alberto Fernández, like the Minister of the Interior Eduardo “Wado” From Peter. larroque is minister of Development of the Community of the Province of Buenos Aires, so its direct boss is Governor Axel Kicillof. This gives you some degree of freedom when talking about the President. Another who usually takes advantage of Buenos Aires autonomy to criticize Fernández is Sergio Berni.
Larroque’s latest move is to organize an act in Avellaneda to ask Cristina Kirchner to be a candidate in this year’s elections. The slogan seeks to compare the 18 years of exile and proscription of Juan Domingo Perón with the ruling of the federal Justice that condemns the vice president and prohibits her from holding public office. “Fight and come back,” said the flyer that circulated on social networks.
Last week, maximum kirchner He participated in conferences with high school and university students where the slogan was also to draw a parallel between Perón’s ban and Cristina’s.
The word proscription is very important for Kirchnerism and especially for The Campora. larroque he embraced this concept from day one and even placed a clipboard in his office with the phrase: “If there is a ban, there is no democracy. Christina 2023. Let’s get the country we want back.” The detail is important, because not only can the poster be seen in the photos released by the minister, but every visitor who passes through that office is obliged to make a comment on the subject.
At the meeting on Thursday, February 16, at the headquarters of the national PJ on Calle Matheu, it was agreed to sign a document entitled “Democracy without proscriptions.” Larroque participated in that meeting in which 33 members of the Frente de Todos were present and seemed to leave happy, because they could say everything they wanted. The Buenos Aires minister was left with the feeling that it had been a good meeting. His surprise was great when on Sunday, while she was having breakfast and reading the cover of the clarin newspaper, saw as the main title a phrase by Aníbal Fernández: “Cristina is not banned, she can be a candidate if she wants to.” He almost spat out the mate.
For Larroque the message was clear. Alberto Fernandez He had decided to send his Security Minister as an informal spokesperson to defuse the idea that Cristina was prohibited. In legal terms, the ruling against the vice president that prohibits her from holding public office is not yet final and there are still instances of review, including the Supreme Court, but it is also true that going through life with a ruling against it is a determining factor. In any case, Cristina has known how to take advantage of her confrontations with Justice. Far from weakening her, the rulings against her have become her biggest political accolade. The epic of the battle against Justice and the media is a recurring subject in her speeches.
The public counterpoints between Anibal Fernandez and Larroque They are becoming more and more frequent. The Minister of Security said last weekend that “the ‘Cuervo’ is sent to chumbar and bite the garrones”, due to his anti-albertist interventions, but the sayings also spread to the entire The Campora. “You cannot mention the group of these boys anywhere. They do not enjoy much respect because they have done many tricks, ”he said on C5N.
Act. “I work for Cristina to be a candidate,” Larroque told journalist Roberto Caballero. They were talking about the organization of the act that will take place in Avellaneda and whose organization is in charge of the group “La Patria es el Otro”, of which the Buenos Aires minister is one of its visible faces. If you go back to the origins of this group, you can find figures such as the former Minister of National Development, “Juanchi” Zabaleta, or the current minister of that portfolio, Victoria Toulouse Peace. Even for the original document, President Alberto Fernández participated. Far from that united origin, today only a few founding members remain. Among them are the mayor of Avellaneda -and recurring host of CFK’s latest public appearances- Jorge Ferraresi, the mayor of Ensenada, Mario Secco, and also Hugo Yaski, from the CTA, among others. It is expected that the presence of Pablo Moyano.
At the close of this edition, it was not expected that Cristina Kirchner attend the act, but rather it would be a show of force, two days after the publication of the arguments of the ruling of the Road Cause that had the vice president as the main sentenced. “We seek to break a situation of proscription and accumulate strength to generate the conditions for it to define,” Larroque said on K El Destape radio. For the Buenos Aires minister, the last word has not yet been said and he has the illusion that the popular outcry can reverse CFK’s decision not to run in the elections. He gives as an example the farewell phrase that the vice president said in the plenary session of the UOM last November: “I am going to do whatever I have to do to ensure that our people, our society, can organize themselves into a project for a country that will once again recover the illusion, strength and joy of our people. We were a happy people”. Larroque translates it as “count on me.”
The concept of happiness has been a recurring theme in recent K speeches. In his encounter with high school students, Máximo also had similar words. “Many things may be missing, except the smile of the boys and girls.” Those meetings had as their motto the phrase “Nothing without Cristina”. A whole message to the interior of the Frente de Todos.
One of the most critical points of the last week was the leak of a chat between the journalist Roberto Navarro, from El Destape, and President Alberto Fernández in which he talks about a scenario of inmates in the PASO next August. “We’re going to PASO, for example, with ‘Coqui’ Capitanich. If he beats the President, he comes out so strong that he’s a great candidate to run for president. If I win, as ‘Coqui’ will be Cristina’s candidate, I will be the one who ends twenty years of Kirchnerism and I can win the elections”. Alberto Fernández’s phrase fell badly on Kirchnerism and especially on Larroque, who described it as a slogan of macrismo and hoped that the President would clarify or deny that chat.
Cristina Kirchner made an encrypted allusion to the episode and said that “in an off the record barbaric things are said.” From the Government they tried to deny Fernández’s statements. From Roberto Navarro’s side, at the close of this edition, they had not denied the existence of that conversation.
Regarding Alberto’s presentation as a candidate, Larroque’s reflection was devastating: “We have to go for something more important than an electoral victory, the fight is deep, the rare thing is the alchemy of believing that we are going to win with a candidate who measures 5 points”. Terrible. Already last year he had stated that he did not see Fernández worried about winning the elections and that when he toured the province of Buenos Aires “people ask if Cristina is going to be a candidate.”
The candidate Cristina camporista fantasy lies in two aspects: the first is that they believe that the overwhelming result of the 2019 PASO was surprising for everyone and they even wonder if it would have been necessary to take Alberto Fernández as a candidate for President or if, against than everyone claimed, with Cristina it was enough. On the other hand, the choice of Fernández responded to the fact that he had a good relationship with Grupo Clarín and also with a sector of the Justice. At least that’s what they remembered from his years as Nestor Kirchner’s chief of staff. For Larroque, the failure of Alberto’s management is not reduced only to economic issues. Whenever he can, he recalls that those sectors, which supposedly had a dialogue with Fernández, “remained on the warpath.”
“El Cuervo” is increasingly empowered and became the camper of the moment. The question that floats in the air is: does Cristina send it or does she act alone? Larroque is intelligent, but not a free thinker.
