The letter of resignation from Maximo Kirchner It generated an earthquake in the ruling party, but the aftershocks reached the opposition. Is that Together for Change was left disoriented about the position to take when the principle according to the IMF come to Congress.
To accompany or not to accompany, that is the question. And with effort they tried to put her aside in the last National Table, where they debated for more than five hours: the conclusion was to unify the position to “honor the debts”, although with certain objections. The quorum is assured, but there is still debate.
The break of front of all in the position with respect to the Fund managed to raise doubts in the opposition. Then came the reproaches: Elisa Carrio accused some leaders of being speculators and Gerardo Morales said that the PRO hawks “have no claws”, while Patricia Bullrich He asked not to accompany so that Kirchnerism “takes charge of its Government.”
“They kicked us out of the ring and we’re fighting downstairs,” one leader protested. The theory that the resignation of the vice president’s son was a strategy to divide the opposition was raised in each of the meetings. Planned or random, he managed to keep Together quite separate.
Questions. The first space to decide was the civic coalition. Carrió he enlisted his legislators in support of the agreement with the Fund. In the Federal Congress, held virtually, the co-founder of Cambiemos stated: “Our position is based on principles. First the Republic, then honor the debts”. And, although she did not mention names, she exposed the leaders of her own coalition who still do not speak out in favor of approving the agreement: “The theory that ‘the worse, the better’ only works for a few opportunists. You can’t hit a weak government.”
The president of radicalism, Gerardo Morales, also opted for the agreement: “You have to give a quorum,” he asked his people. And he added: “The attitude of the opposition must be to do the right thing and not wait to see how Cristina rises.” The governor had been the victim of the hard wing attack, that’s why he went to the crossroads: “Let them come to Jujuy to see how we pigeons fight against Kirchnerism. I don’t see the claws of those hawks. They are not going to come to me to run”.
The quick definitions of civic coalition and the radicalism left in an uncomfortable place PRO. On Wednesday afternoon, the yellow deputies met in Congress to analyze the situation. The bombardment of statements from his coalition partners came from all sides and expectations about the meeting increased. In any case, there were no convincing definitions: “Nobody can say how they are going to vote for a text that they do not know,” he said. Christian Ritondothe president of the bloc.
Luciano Laspina seconded the president at the meeting PRO: “We still do not know the letter of the agreement. What we know is that there are no substantive changes in the main policies of Kirchnerism.” The question remains, despite the fact that the next day, in the national table, the same president of the space, Patricia Bullrich, was one of those who endorsed the idea of ”not going towards default”.
From the PRO, even, the most extreme version of the matter had come out: repeal the law that requires that the agreements be ratified by Congress. In this way, the President should make a decree of necessity and urgency and assume all the political cost. The idea was quickly scrapped.
Future. The position of Together for Change before him IMF It is just one of many dilemmas. A year and a half before the presidential campaign, another discussion is based on what to do with the space. “You have to expand, but not pile up,” he asked Maria Eugenia Vidal. It is that they always sound, as possible incorporations, Javier Milei and José Luis Espert. But there was also talk of Sergio Berni c.cross the sidewalk. For now, it’s just speculation.
Others, like Patricia Bullrichthey are already rehearsing formulas with liberals and thinking about directing the space: “I want to conduct the political process as I conducted in the legislative elections,” the president of the PRO told NOTICIAS during her vacation in Pinamar.
Then there is the dilemma of the 2023 candidacies. With a weakened government, there are many who dare to sit on the starting line. Horacio Rodriguez Larreta is a fixed number, but Mauricio Macriwho looked retired a while ago, also flirts with the possibility.
They are not the only ones. The UCR will propose a formula: “There will be a radical president,” Morales harangues. For his part, Bullrich has already expressed his desire to participate in the contest and assured that there will be interns: “There will be a PASS, since many of us have grown with this system. Before, the candidates were chosen from the centrality and this time each one will be left to make their own way”. There is a long way to go, but nobody wants to be relegated.
Meanwhile, the next step for the opposition is to decide how the agreement with the Fund will be voted on in Congress. If they support the Alberto Fernández agreement, they could look more pro-government than Kirchnerism itself. But if they manage to isolate Maximo Kirchner and a further twenty legislators who would vote against, may reveal the fragility of Cristina’s son: the hard-line camper would be an inconsequential minority in Deputies.
The debate is red hot. In the opposition, they fear that so many internal differences will transform Together in a grout, what they criticize so much about the government of Alberto Fernandez and Cristina Kirchner. The National Table of last Thursday was a demonstration that they do not want to reach the boiling point that the Government is experiencing.
