The closure of the ruling party lists brought a name to the presidential formula that at some point in his political career He had short circuits with Cristina Kirchner. It is the duo between Eduardo “Wado” De Pedro and Juan Luis Manzur. The governor of Tucumán and former head of the Cabinet of Alberto Fernández said in November 2017 on the television channel TN: “I say it with great respect: there are cycles. I think the former President of the Nation completed a political cycle.”
At that time, the Peronism of the interior sought to build its own political space to compete with the macrismo and Manzur took the lead of those who wanted to go with an alternative that would leave behind the years of Kirchnerism.
This was not the only sign of Manzur to retire Cristina Kirchner. When in 2019 he assumed his second term as governor and received Alberto Fernández, he affirmed that the future president was the new head of Peronism. Those words were not to the liking of Cristina Kirchner either, who revealed her differences with Manzur in a letter published in September 2021, when she said that she had proposed the name Manzur to Alberto Fernández to replace Santiago Cafiero in the Cabinet Headquarters. “I know my proposal will surprise you, The differences that I have had with whoever was my Minister of Health since 2009 are public and notorious,” he said.
Today, Manzur is once again an option in a moment of crisis and from Kirchnerism his name began to move to accompany De Pedro. If this formula is confirmed, the scene of Cristina Kirchner showing pragmatism when retaining power will be repeated.
