The PJ electoral board is heading to make official the lists of Cristina Kirchner and Ricardo Quintela for the November 17 election. The tension behind the reunion in La Plata
More than a gesture of unity, it was a sign of thaw in the midst of the internal P.J.. Estela de Carlotto joined Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Axel Kicillof yesterday at the Teatro Argentino in La Plata at an event for the 47th anniversary of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, which was joined by the governor of Buenos Aires after confirming the presence of the former president.
Kicillof was in Punta Indio and, just after 3 p.m., he confirmed that he would go to La Plata to publicly meet Cristina again based on Carlotto’s invitation. “They didn’t talk to each other“Carlotto revealed this morning in an interview with journalist Lautaro Maislin to confirm that the icy meeting was more of a first rapprochement between the two than a postcard of unity.
Cristina’s message
The former president expressed harsh criticism against a sector of Peronism last Friday at the Buenos Aires headquarters of SMATA and complained that officials of the Kicillof administration gathered endorsements for the candidacy of Ricardo Quintela in the PJ. A message that pointed to Andrés “Cuervo” Larroque, former general secretary of La Cámpora and current Buenos Aires minister who was not at the Argentine Theater yesterday to try to resolve the conflict. Kicillof arrived accompanied by Carlos Bianco and Cristina was with Eduardo “Waldo” de Pedro. Reduced delegations in the middle of the internal.
At the Instituto Patria they continue to dissect the political intersections between Quintela’s “Federals a cry from the heart” list and Kicillof’s map of allies in the province of Buenos Aires. This week they detected, for example, that at least 11 officials of Jorge Ferraresi, mayor of Avellaneda, promoter of Axel’s presidential candidacy, organizer of the event in Berisso and former official of Alberto Fernández with intentions of being a candidate for governor, put their signature to endorse the list of the governor of La Rioja that challenges Cristina in the internal PJ.
Mayor Juan José Mussi of Berazategui also signed his endorsement, also present at the Kicillof event on October 17 in Berisso. The lack of definition of the governor of Buenos Aires in that act where he demanded unity in the intern between Cristina and Quintela escalated the tension in Peronism and activated an operation to install tables “Cristina President:” that began in Quilmes and today will continue in Lanús in the framework of a sustained tour of the suburbs in view of the internal of the scheduled pair on November 17.
Axel Kicillof’s career
With Kicillof in the course of his second term, and without a new period to re-elect in the province, the internal tension in Peronism detonates not only due to the control of the PJ but also due to the governor’s presidential race and, especially, due to his own succession in the main electoral bastion of Kirchnerism. In this context, who will head the ballot of candidates for national deputies of the PJ next year and the control of the pen to draw up the lists of candidates for the 2025 legislative elections take on special relevance.
Last night the PJ electoral board, headed by Armando Cabrera from Formosa, the political arm of Gildo Insfrán and head of the Legislature in his province, met via zoom. After the presentation of Cristina’s list “First the Homeland” requesting a “broad and inclusive” criterion to guarantee the participation of Quintela’s list, there would be a principle of agreement so that both contenders for the leadership of the PJ are made official.
Deadline expires in the PJ
Today is the deadline to replace contested candidates on the lists. The Quintela sector presented a challenge on Tuesday night against three candidates for councilors on the former president’s list, denouncing that they were not affiliated with the party. Correctable errors that tomorrow, given the expiration of the deadline provided for in the electoral schedule, will lead to the officialization of both lists to compete in the internal elections on November 17.
Now the main question is whether the conditions will be guaranteed to carry out this internal electoral process. From the PJ they requested from the National Electoral Directorate a minimum of 6 thousand ballot boxes to guarantee the participation of a registry of more than 3 million members. The government responded that they can provide up to 3,200 ballot boxes but as a courtesy they offered envelopes that will no longer be used due to the implementation of the single paper ballot starting next year.
Source: Ambito
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