On the first anniversary of the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice that condemned Cristina Fernández de Kirchnerthe mayor of Quilmes on leave and provincial deputy Mayra Mendoza He once again took center stage in Peronism with a post as forceful in his words as in his image. His words left no room for ambiguity: “Free Cristina. Crazy shit”he wrote on his networks, pointing to the Judiciary, the media power and the political framework that, according to his reading, built the conviction of the former president.
The phrase chosen as the title for the publication was not coincidental either. His bench and militancy partner in The Camporathe deputy Facundo Tignanellicompleted the message with equal harshness: “Cristina is in jail because she wins the election walking”he shot. The underlying argument is the one that hard Kirchnerism has been maintaining since the conviction: that the banning of Fernández de Kirchner responds to the electoral threat he represents.
But as eloquent as the words was the photo that Mendoza chose to accompany the post. In the image, the Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof Several bodies appear behind the former president, in a composition that within the camp code has an unequivocal reading: each person occupies their corresponding place in the hierarchy of the movement. The placement of Kicillof in the background of the image is not a decorative detail, but rather a political message about who leads and who follows.
The internal between La Cámpora and the governor It has been processed through gestures and signals for months. While Kicillof seeks to build his own space and position himself as an equal interlocutor with Cristina—whom he visited in prison only once, for approximately one hour, in October of last year—the Camporista leadership periodically reminds him of the scale of power within Buenos Aires Peronism.
After Mendoza’s post, Kicillof issued his own statement, but without a photo. The governor described the Supreme Court ruling as “an enormous infamy for all to see” and maintained that Cristina was the victim of a long persecution that led to a sentence that she considered arbitrary, without evidence and based on a legal argument that she considered absurd. He ended with a phrase that serves as a summary: “One year after that ruling, we ratify what truly cannot be unknowable: Cristina is innocent and continues to be unjustly detained”.
In that context, the National PJ called for a flag-off for next June 20 in the Lezama Parkdemanding the freedom of the former president. Simultaneously, legislators from the Unión por la Patria and Justicialista blocs held a press conference in the Senate and presented a document to the Supreme Court. The date of the anniversary of the conviction thus became the first great thermometer of unity—and of the fissures—that cross Peronism ahead of the electoral year.
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