The crossed versions about a conclave between the former president and the governor added confusion and tension to the internal situation. The only concrete thing is that, if the meeting had existed, it did not end with a photo of Cristina and Axel together. “We have always been fervent promoters of Cristina for everything, but this is not due to a personal desire,” they explain close to the governor.
Hermeticism in the PJ
“Axel was waiting for confirmation of the time for the meeting with Cristina”revealed to Scope a source who had spoken with the governor of Buenos Aires. From the Buenos Aires government they assured that that meeting that was revealed as a version yesterday between Kicillof and the former president was not on the agenda nor did it take place. There was no official confirmation, the authorized spokespersons of the Patria Institute neither confirmed nor denied the meeting. They maintained secrecy.
While Quintela adds endorsements and tries to correct the lack of a fifth district of the PJ that adheres to his candidacy for the leadership of the Justicialista Party, facing the closing of lists that will operate next Sunday, the decision adopted by the electoral board will be decisive. Time to make the lists official for the internal exam scheduled for November 17. The eventual conclave between Cristina and Kicillof pointed to the possibility of deactivating or postponing this intern so as not to expose an open fracture of Peronism.
Claim against Axel Kicillof
Kicillof remains silent in relation to Cristina’s nomination for the PJ. A silence that irritates not only the former president but especially La Cámpora who, this week, through Mayra Mendoza, made a public claim to the governor of Buenos Aires. “It strikes me that Governor Axel Kicillof, after the opportunities he had in his life due to Cristina’s trust and for being part of this political project, has not yet expressed itself based on the candidacy of Cristina to preside over the PJ,” the mayor of Quilmas warned in radio statements.
Kicillof, who in August shared an event with Quintela in La Rioja along with various sectors of Peronism, from Victoria Tolosa Paz, to Alfredo Atanasof, Fernando Espinoza and Oscar Parrilli, remains undaunted ahead of tomorrow’s event in Berisso. Will there be any statement on the PJ internal? From La Plata they assure that it is a purely provincial act and that the opponent is Javier Milei.
In the fight for the presidency of the PJ there is not only the control of the pen for the preparation of the lists for the legislative elections but also the incipient internal debate over the succession of Axel Kicillof. Already in his second term and without re-election, the vacancy of the candidacy for Buenos Aires governor in 2027 generates a stampede in Peronism. Who will head the ballot of national deputies for the province of Buenos Aires next year? La Cámpora positions Mayra Mendoza, in the “kicillofismo” they imagine Carlos Bianco as successor, but all scenarios are open and the mayors will also have a key role.
Ricardo Quintela’s campaign
There is also an internal debate about the identity of Peronism in an eventual post-Christianity embodied in Kicillof. In the Quintela campaign, and also a sector of the leadership of the Buenos Aires government, they maintain that Cristina’s centrality in the PJ would end up shrinking the space in the face of possible electoral alliances to be able to confront Javier Milei.
The need for a rearrangement in the relationship between Cristina and Kicillof is urgent in the face of the electoral year where La Libertad Avanza is already designing in the province of Buenos Aires an electoral front with the PRO to add electoral volume in the main bastion of Peronism.
Source: Ambito
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