Cristina Kirchner and Axel Kicillof together in a tribute to Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo

Despite the internal conflict unleashed between Cristina Kirchner and Axel Kicillofboth leaders They participated in a tribute to Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo on its 47th anniversary, which was held at the Teatro Argentino in La Plata. They were seated in the front row, barely separated by the president of the human rights organization, Carlotto’s Stelewho was in the middle of them.

So much Cristina Kirchner as Axel Kicillof They were smiling with Carlottowho took them by the hand. Above the stage the tribute to the “47 years of struggle” of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo. The event was hosted by the recovered grandchildren Manuel Gonçalves and Leonardo Fossati.

In the theater there was a festive and affectionate atmosphere towards the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, the governor of Buenos Aires and Cristina Kirchner. When the ex-president entered the theater the public started applauding and sing “Cristina president!”.

Once both leaders were seated next to Estela Carlotto and the mother of Plaza de Mayo, Taty Almeida, the entire theater began to sing. “Mothers of the Plaza! The people embrace you!”. Once the song starts, Both Cristina and Axel stopped, turned around and joined the harangue.waving his arms.

At the end of the event, the president and vice president of Abuelas, Carlotto’s Stele and Searchita Roathey went on stage to give the final speechleaving an empty place between Cristina and Axel. Quickly, the current senator for the province of Buenos Aires, Peter’s Wadosat down in the place Carlotto had left.

Once on stage, Carlotto He gave a speech calling for unity to resist the policies of the national government. “The Homeland belongs to everyone and we have to defend it. We were born here, we have to live here and it depends on us. Don’t expect from others. Do we think differently? It doesn’t matter. For those who think alike, let’s shake hands“he asked.

And in a hint that sounded to Axel and Cristina, the president of Abuelas told them that “All those who are governing want us to not do what we did today. How scared they must have been”. And he left a message for the future: “The bad also happens. While we go through the bad, let’s do the good that is, even if we have political differences, we are Argentines.”

Finally, he highlighted the presence of Cristina and Axel. He named it one by one and stated that it is an “honor”, which generated applause from all attendees. Also from the former president and the governor of the province of Buenos Aires.

The word of Cristina Kirchner and Axel Kicillof

At the end of his speech, Carlotto Several recovered grandsons and granddaughters and members of human rights organizations came up. They were also invited to get on Christina and Axelwho took the floor.

Cristina Kirchner remembered Néstor Kirchnerher husband and former president who died in 2010. “When I see many of you I remember our years as students and the things that happened to us here, in the city of La Plata, and when I see these women, I see them You, the grandchildren, I am seeing him in each of you,” he remarked.

Then he added: “It is an immense joy, because Estela is right. Life must be celebrated with joy and memory. Those who want us to forget what happened to us and what we did is because they want to screw us in the present and steal our future. We are not going to allow it“.

Then it was the governor’s turn. Axel Kicillof. Before she spoke, those in attendance chanted “Cristina president!” He smiled, waited a little, and then began to speak, while some were still singing.

“We are celebrating the 47 years of Abuelas. What better place than in a theater recovered from the apathy of the right?” said Axel and thanked Estela and on her behalf all the mothers and grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo. To close, he shouted the slogans “Memory, Truth, Justice. There were 30 thousand. Until Victory. Thank you, colleagues.”

The intern between Cristina Kirchner and Axel Kicillof

Although there has been friction between both leaders of Peronism for some time, heCristina Kirchner’s decision to run for the presidency of the Justicialista Party (PJ) accelerated the times.

After several requests, the Buenos Aires governor surprised last Saturday by not explicitly supporting his former mentor and criticizing her driving “methods.”

In a statement “Build a shield and an alternative: for that, unity“, Kicillof He tried to position himself above the dispute for the presidency of the PJ between Cristina Kirchner and the Riojan governor Ricardo Quintela.

He assured that “Quintela is not my candidate”but he flattered him and called it a “big mistake” to attack him, at the same time as he assured that the former president “is in his heart.” His message closed with a request for unity to dedicate the entire “energy to strengthen the shield and the alternative that our people need so much“.

PJ: Ricardo Quintela’s list presented challenges against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

The electoral board of Justicialist Party (PJ) last night there was a transfer of the challenges presented by the representatives of Ricardo Quintela against the list of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The Riojan’s representatives advanced with a magnifying glass on the former president’s list, after the Patria Institute counted numerous irregularities on Quintela’s payroll, although, however, they asked that they be ignored to enable internal competition.

“They do not have to have a position of solidarity with us, we are within the established deadlines to correct any problem,” complained from the campaign of the governor of La Rioja in relation to the request for “broad and non-restrictive criteria” made by Anabel Fernández Sagasti, Teresa García and Gustavo Arrieta -proxies of the Christian list “The Homeland First”- before the electoral board to promote the participation of “Federals, a cry from the heart” in the face of alleged irregularities that they had raised through a request for reports.