Cristina Kirchner’s political future is still an unknown. And she is marked, beyond what she wants to do, to what can happen in the extraordinary sessions with the clean file project. Could you be a candidate? If the government schedule thrives, the answer will begin to be known on February 11.
But in the meantime, the president of the PJ does not stay with crossed arms. Just arrived from a family vacation in Monte Hermoso, Cristina began to move electoral chess sheets. He wants to affirm himself as the owner of Peronism, although the justicialist governors raised their doubts. What remains to know is if the former president’s pen still has ink.
At stake.
The electoral calendar has an early start. The thing is February 7 is the closure of lists in Santa Fe: councilors, a handful of mayors and, The novelty, conventional constituents. There the guns of the parties are pointed out, in a reform of the provincial Constitution after more than 60 years.
Provincial Peronism is divided into four factions. A problem when assembling lists. In fact, in the last congress, which was paradoxically called “Summit for Unity”, they ended with questions, challenge orders and complaints of “ghost assembly members” that appeared on the screen to vote.
Cristina interfered in the Santa Fe crisis to carry calm. At least for now, he did not get it. The former president joined the mayors and political leaders of that province to know in depth what was happening and He hugged a candidate who already knew: the senator, and former sports journalist, Marcelo Lewandoski.
The former president’s task is not easy: she has to convince the rest of the features that are aligned under the name of Lewandoski. But first he has to persuade the senator to be a candidate for the PJ and not present his independent list. The first talks were not successful.
“It’s another Cristina. It is still a leader, but before his word was indisputable. Now she suggests and the rest evaluates. Do not lower line as before, ”says a source of Peronism. The president of the National PJ has a week left to twist fate: if not, his first intervention will be a failure.
Cristina’s ordering task will continue by two northern provinces that authorities choose. In Jujuy and Corrientes, both intervened, there will be party elections on March 9.
In Jujuy, the auditors Gustavo Menéndez and Aníbal Fernández had set the date for November 17, 2024. But they had to postpone it a few months for the crisis of justicialism at the national levelwho was achepal for the resignation of Alberto Fernández. Now the brand new president seeks the unity of space. Advance at a firm step, although the agreement is not closed.
In Corrientes not only the presidency of the party is defined, but also candidates for governor and provincial and national legislators. On February 12 the lists close. There also Cristina will try to do her will.
Relations with the governors.
The greatest focus of conflict for Cristina, in her attempt to fill in influence within the party, is to align those who have territorial power. Above all, to the governors of the PJ, who do not finish recognizing their authority.
The first displacement was in his act of Asunción. In December, in addition to the obvious absence of Axel Kicillof, the leaders of Tierra del Fuego, Gustavo Melella; La Pampa, Sergio Zilotto; La Rioja, Ricardo Quintela; Santiago del Estero, Gerardo Zamora; and Formosa, Gildo Insfrán. The internal ones in the party were still red and the tension between the former president and the governor of Buenos Aires made a climate of absolute discomfort for any leader for any leader.
Of course, of that act Nor did Raúl Jalil and Osvaldo Jaldo, the governors of Catamarca and Tucumán, whom the former president had described them, without appointing them, as “political transfugas”for his alignment with President Javier Milei.
Now, the governors have only to accept Cristina’s leadership, beyond any forgetting the displacements he made to the party. But they must accept that, as the leader with more votes, it is the only one who can command reconstruction.
With which there are not too many contact points is with Kicillof. Although Cristina’s last gesture was approach. Through deputy Alejandro Dichiara, who officiated as host of the former president in Monte Hermoso, asked the own to vote the budget to the governor.
Kicillof had failed to put together the necessary votes to take out the law before the end of the year and was already preparing to start this 2025 in economic emergency. It will not happen. “All Peronism expects unity times to come,” said Dichiara, Cristina’s messenger in the province. The task is complicated.
Every so often, Cristina goes out to cross Javier Milei strong. It is a way to stay in the center of the ring, but also to align the troop: the rival is outside, he tells them indirectly. On Thursday, a week after the president of the president in Davos, the former president reacted: “It is seen that the unrestricted respect of the neighbor’s project was pure sanata, because you only dedicated yourself to insulting, attacking and defame women and women homosexuals, ”he said.
Cristina seeks that the party he came to insult, now he responds without objections. It did not touch an easy time: the national PJ is in the process of reconstruction from the plain. You must start putting together the puzzle from the districts. The problem for the former president is whether he fails to impose her decisions in the provinces. And it could be aggravated if Congress decides that he cannot be a candidate, after punishing the clean file. There are too many questions.
Axel Kicillof and his own forehead
Unauthorized by Cristina Kirchner in her attempt to build her candidacy for president, toXel Kicillof continues to try to build his own front. Now he gathered in Villa Gesell 35 Buenos Aires mayors and analyzed unfolding the legislative elections, which would be an extra complication for the national electoral assembly. It would also be the greatest act of governor’s rebellion towards Cristina’s driving.
“The meeting with the mayors was very important, especially for the support they gave to the governor,” said Government Minister Carlos Bianco In an interview with El Middle the uncover. He added: “The idea of organizing a broad political front was crystallized to defend the Buenos Aires of Milei’s policies.” In the province they expect to know if the step will be eliminated or not before deciding the unfolding. If you decide affirmatively, Kicillof will take the differences with Cristina to a point of no return.
Justice and key dates
The Judicial Fair is over and Cristina Kirchner adds a new concern. To political challenges, problems with justice that have been accompanied for years are added. On February 20, the deadline for appealing the ruling of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation that confirmed his six -year prison sentence for the road cause for the road. The prosecutors will also appeal, because they seek to add the crime of illicit association, which could aggravate the penalty. The file would thus reach the last instance: It will be the Court that decides if the prison must be served (for his age it would be home) and would be disabled to exercise public office. For the second semester, Cristina has a scheduled date: November 6. The beginning of the oral trial for the cause of corruption. On the other side of the bench, The former president expects progress from the trial for her attempt to murder by Fernando Sabag Montiel. On February 12 the debate is resumed.
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