The Peronist internal movement was activated in recent days and, in the midst of the debate over candidacy of Cristina Kirchnerthe governor of La Rioja, Ricardo Quintelaassured that he will seek to communicate with the former president next Monday. Furthermore, the official stated that his application is in “a path of no return“.
The governor explained that he found out about the nomination through a message from Senator Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro. “It has a magnitude that exceeds PJ. I don’t think she should lower herself to leading the game.when driving a larger space,” he stated.
Ricardo Quintela and Cristina Kirchner go for the PJ
After the resignation of Alberto Fernández from the presidency of the Justicialista Party (PJ), in August of this year, the Peronist internal party was activated to elect his successor. Last Monday, the two-time President of the nation confirmed, through a letter, his candidacy for the presidency of the party.
This movement generated various responses from within. One of the actors who remained in the middle of the debate is the governor of La Rioja, who had communicated his intention to preside over the party.
In this context, Quintela assured, in an interview with Splendid-990, that he considers that former Vice President Cristina Kirchner “You should not lower yourself to driving the PJwhen she leads a larger space”, after La Cámpora nominated her to compete for the leadership of the party. Despite her opinion, the Rioja native warned that the debate takes place in a “difficult situation“due to the economic problems that Argentine society is going through marked by “the cruel, aggressive and violent policies that President Javier Milei is applying“while Peronism is disorganized and crossed by an internal debate.
“People cannot live, they cannot access basic services, that is the contradiction of discussing an electoral process that was being launched,” he remarked while ensuring that he seeks promote Peronism and form a table to work in unity in the recovery of several provinces that lost space.
Regarding the ways in which the former vice president ran, Quintela analyzed: “I thought she was going to summon the governors, mayors, legislators, and people from the CGTso that we could sit in a kind of plenary session, to explain, it did not happen. “I respect her a lot, I appreciate her, she had a brilliant Argentine history.”
“I had not planned (his application), if I knew it, I placed myself under her orders“, he later admitted. Immersed in the debate, the governor stated that on Monday he will seek to communicate with Cristina to discuss the future of the party.
Regarding his application, Quintela assured that he is in a “path of no returno”. “I am not looking for the support of the governors but of the bases. I don’t want to compromise them, no governor has expressed himself. You have to let it be like that. They are all colleagues and friends“he added.
Finally, the official clarified that He will not share the event on October 17 with his Buenos Aires counterpartAxel Kicillof, since he will celebrate it in La Plata. Above all the debate, Quintela stressed that “the important thing” is that both Cristina Kirchner and he “come out strong against Javier Milei.”
Cristina Kirchner’s letter to Peronism
Last Monday Cristina Kirchner accepted the nomination to lead the national Justicialist Party and highlighted the need to “straighten and order“to Peronism through an internal debate that “rebuilds its strength and addresses new social demands.” The announcement comes after the “outcry” operation carried out by numerous Kirchnerist leaders for the former president lead the party.
In a lengthy letter, the former president accepted the challenge of competing for the leadership of the PJ. “I want to tell you that I am willing, once again, to accept the challenge of debating in unity Because if I am also clear about something, it is that there is no one left over here. However, the unit needs direction and project to build the best possible Peronism in an Argentina that has become impossible for the majority of its inhabitants.”
“Achieving this is not an objective in itself, but conceiving our party as the instrument that must take the first step to regroup all political and social forces behind a government program that gives back to this Argentina mired in the cruelty and hatred of fools, the hope and pride of being Argentine,” he detailed about the call for unity.
“Beyond that, Peronism continues to be the force with the largest number of national deputies and senators and this requires, for historical understanding and political responsibilityits own reconstruction addressing each and every one of the new social demands,” the former president warned in another passage of the text.
Along this path, Fernández de Kirchner assured that “it is clear that we must straighten out what has gone wrong and order what has been disordered” and that “this raises the need to create a sphere of discussion and participation that does not exist today and that its absence “it only generates confusion and emptiness.” Along these lines, Cristina assured: “I have no doubts that, at this stage, The party is the most appropriate place to develop the continent that generates the content and that also has direction and objectives.“.
Finally, the former vice president stated that “we must accept that nothing is set in stone and that everything must be rethought and discussed” and insisted with two proposals made in a previous document, published on September 6: modification of labor relations and their impact, new statehood for a new State, reversal of the fiscal deficit and how to do it, review and reform of public education, securitymodifications in social communication, etc.
Source: Ambito
