“I am not going to be a pet of power for any candidacy. I am not going to enter into the perverse game that they impose on us with a democratic façade so that those same judges, perched today in the Court, issue a ruling disqualifying me or directly removing any candidacy that I may hold, to leave Peronism in absolute fragility and weakness in the face of the electoral contest”, wrote Cristina Kirchner. And the orphaned Kirchnerism must now take the “marshal’s baton” that the vice president marked months ago.
CFK’s cycle in the public service will once again pause as in 2015, when he left the presidency, after 20 uninterrupted years holding public office, since the 1980s, when Nestor Kirchner assumed political positions in the province of Santa Cruz.
In 1981, the Kirchners founded the Juan Domingo Perón Athenaeum, a political platform with which they would compete for the mayorship of Río Gallegos in 1983, with a political group that included Alicia Kirchner and Carlos Zannini, among others. The first elective position of the current vice president was in 1989 as a provincial legislator.
In the mid nineties, Cristina would reach the National Congress as a senator for Santa Cruz in 1995, a position she held until 1997, when she left that bench to move to the Lower House as a deputy, from 1997 to 2001, for the same province.
In 2001 she was again elected senator for Santa Cruz. She and she took over Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Affairswhere the modification of the Council of the Magistracyand the law that later allowed the current conformation of the Supreme Court.
In 2005, as first lady, she would compete again for a bench in the Senate, now for the province of Buenos Aires. Position to which she resigned in 2007, after being elected President. In 2011 she would be re-elected by a wide margin and she served as president until 2015.
Between 2015 and 2017, Cristina Kirchner He did not hold public office: after finishing his second presidential term, he focused his efforts on strengthening and promoting his political party, the front for victoryand in defending his policies and legacy.
But in 2017, pressured by her legal situation and being the subject of several judicial investigations, she ran as a candidate for national senator for the province of Buenos Aires. In the legislative elections of that year, she fell before Esteban Bullrichbut she was elected as the first minority and took office in December of that year.
And in 2019 she would become vice president, exercising her veto power as the main shareholder of the front of alla space that today creaks in the face of management failure, the main reason for the drop in Alberto Fernández of a re-election attempt. And also of a candidacy by circumscribed popular acclaim of Cristina Kirchner, who nevertheless hopes to be able to continue pulling the strings: “Be careful, those who are thinking that I am going to dedicate myself to taking care of the grandchildren, they better forget,” he told the respect to trade unionists.
by RN
