Lucia Camporathe great-niece of the former president Hector Campora, is the new general secretary of the group The Campora. The statement is redundant and cacophonous, but behind it there is a story that deserves to be told. The 32-year-old militant and Buenos Aires legislator has been participating in the Kirchnerist group since at least 2014, and little by little she was gaining space. Her highest position, at the university level, was in 2018, when she was elected as vice president of the University Federation of Buenos Aires (FUBA). At that time she was 27 years old. The following year she was elected a Buenos Aires legislator for the front of all and became a benchmark for Kirchnerism in the City of Buenos Aires.
From now on he will have a new challenge, driving the generational replacement of La Cámpora and a little more. “We are an organization that leaves behind its generational character to assume an intergenerational character and for this new stage the General Secretariat will be headed by comrade Lucía Cámpora,” says the statement from The Campora that formalizes the replacement of Andrés “The Raven” Larroque in the highest position in the organization.
The change of “character” of La Cámpora evidence a sign of the passage of time: the founding members were no longer young -and began to comb their hair with gray hair- and, therefore, began to lose the codes of early age. Lucía, on the other hand, is a regular at militant streaming transmissions and in recent weeks she has participated in meetings with university and high school students. From March 3 to 5, in Exaltación de la Cruz, the first National University Camp of La Cámpora was held -under the slogan “Nothing without Cristina”– at the FATICA campsite, the tanners’ union. They brought together 800 students. Two days later, on the 7th, more than 100 high school militants from all over the country met in Chascomús in the so-called Federal Board of the Secondary School Front. The Campora. Máximo Kirchner also participated in both meetings.
Relative. Lucía’s family bond with Héctor “Uncle” Cámpora He comes from his grandfather’s side, Pedro Lindolfo Campora, who was the brother of the former president. Pedro Lindolfo had three children (two boys and one girl), one of whom was Pedro Daniel, Lucía’s father, who is also the “culprit” of Héctor Cámpora earning the nickname uncle. peter danielIn the 1970s, he was a Peronist youth militant and his companions knew of the family link with the then Perón delegate, so every time they referred to Cámpora they called him “Pedro’s uncle”. A classic example of something that started as a joke and stuck.
The role of Lucía Cámpora for the next months will be key, especially in a context in which so much Cristina Kirchner like the rest of the leaders of the K orga, they suffer from the disenchantment of young people with politics and their migration towards libertarian sectors such as those represented by Javier Milei. In a recent survey by the Synopsis consultancy, it was recorded, at the national level, that 51% of Milei’s voters are between 16 and 29 years old. CFK, aware of this, has been repeating messages for the twenty-somethings in his speeches, who were just babies when Néstor Kirchner came to power. “Perhaps those who are 20 years old today don’t remember, but back in the year 2001, Argentine men and women in the streets shouted ‘that they all go away, that not a single one of them remains.’ It was the repudiation of politics for what had happened, ”he said in his speech at the CCK on March 21.
In this context, the great-niece of Héctor Cámpora assumes the coordination of the K group that bears his last name. She will have under her responsibility the not easy task of taking La Cámpora to the next level as a political group: bringing together the compañeros with the kids.
