The electoral year is underway and before the elections in two provinces the Justicialist Party (PJ) will go to elections to elect its new authorities. It will be in Jujuy and Corrientes, where the district interventions have already started with the schedule, on the way to the internal certification on March 9. Although there were some short circuits due to regulatory issues, it was learned that the parties involved in the processes will seek to agree on unity lists, with the impetus of the new national authorities of the PJ headed by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. In fact, the former president has planned a trip to Corrientes for March or April, her entourage confirmed.
Corrientes is one of the two districts, along with Santiago del Estero, where there will be provincial elections to elect governor. The provincial leader Gustavo Valdes He is going through the last months of his second administration, with no successor in sight, so far, so Peronism is excited about being able to compete for the governorship, although first he must arrive in order at the internal one, whose provisional lists are already on display.
The decoupling of the calendars of these provinces with the rest is the result of federal interventions. Valdés has not yet announced the date of the elections but due to history and the type of campaigns that are usually carried out in Currentswhere the emphasis is placed on the local, everything indicates that the elections will be split and it is even unofficially indicated that they could be in September, a month before the national legislative elections. It will be seen. What is almost certain is that it will join the batch of districts that took off from the national elections: CABA, Chaco, Salta, San Luis and Santa Fe.
For this reason, the interveners of the Justicialist Party (PJ) Corrientes gave speed to the mechanisms for electing party authorities. “We are advancing in a transparent, legitimate and democratic process,” they said last week. Maximo Rodriguez and Maria Teresa Garciathe party normalizers, during a meeting where progress was made in the formation of the Electoral Board. According to the schedule, the exhibition of provisional registers began at the headquarters of the Electoral Board, at Salta 663, in the capital, and the reception of complaints from members who were not on the provisional registers. The deadline for exhibition and claims will end on February 6.
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The most relevant thing so far was the meeting held by a large group of Corrientes leaders, before the end of the year, among whom was the former Buenos Aires representative Jose Ottaviswho resides in Monte Caseros and is national advisor of the PJ, with Cristina Fernández in the Federal Capital. At the meeting, in which there were more than 60 representatives from different social spaces, the interveners García and Rodríguez were also present. The first is extremely trusted by the former president of the Nation and acts as an articulator between the national leadership and the different aspects of Corrientes Peronism. From that conclave came a statement from the PJ of this province in which it was stated that the head of Peronism would visit the province in March.
The word of the former head of state would be key to reaching a point of agreement between the spaces that would be presented in the elections, above all, because it was the same Peronism that made the document public in October of last year. “The 77 municipalities of Corrientes with Cristina President of the PJ”with the seal of the PJ, in which militants, mayors, legislators, unionists and workers, asked that he assume the leadership of national Peronism.
“We believe that it is necessary to send a message of unity, defending the leader who was branded in the hearts of the people. It is not time to doubt or speculate. It is time to propose a new dream. That is why we ask our comrade Cristina to assume this responsibility, supported by the bases of a movement that is willing to get to work to build the Nation that the General dreamed of,” were the closing words of the statement.
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By the north
In Jujuy, the scenario has on the surface two important references who will compete for the presidency of local Peronism on March 9 after a precautionary measure – which left the vote that should have been carried out on November 17 of last year – promoted by the Rojo Punzó Federales list that was left out of the race, after the Federal Justice had ratified a decision of the partisan Electoral Board.
To expeditiously close the uncertainty about a new date to go to the polls, the interveners Anibal Fernandez and Gustavo Menendez They decided in December that the new date for the elections would be in March. The Generation Valiente lists, which propose the national senator, remained in the race Carolina Moisés for the district presidency, and Celeste y Blanco No. 2, whose candidate is the national representative Leila Chaherfrom La Cámpora.
However, there are dialogues to avoid conflict and reach unity. In that sense, Senator Moisés met with Cristina in December and is on track to be anointed as the president of the PJ, with Leila Chaher as vice president. Moisés said: “We must learn from experiences and achieve a strong opposition that defends citizens,” in relation to the provincial government led by the radical Carlos Sadir.
Peronism in Jujuy was intervened in July 2023, in the midst of the scandal and repression due to the swearing in of the new provincial Constitution promoted by the radical former governor. Gerardo Morales. At that time, the northern PJ was chaired by the current provincial deputy Ruben Rivarolawhose support was key for the former candidate for vice president of the Nation to achieve the modification of the local constitution. Faced with this, the former head of the PJ, the former president Alberto Fernandezdecided to remove Rivarola, who was replaced by Fernández, former Minister of the Nation, and Menéndez, mayor of Merlo.
According to queries from Scopereaching agreements in Jujuy to achieve a unity list will be “uphill” but that option is not ruled out. Rivarola, who retains a reasonable space of power, maintained when 2024 was closing, in statements to the newspaper El Tribuno, of which he is its general director: “The iron option is: or we seek constructive dialogue between all of us who want to see a Peronism again victorious in trying to put together a list of unity, which avoids confrontation; but if it could not be achieved, with the same enthusiasm and respect, that the two lists that are in the race go to the elections and who is defined who will lead the game.”
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Another sign towards a hypothetical agreement was the meeting that Cristina Fernández had last week, in Buenos Aires, with the former governor of Jujuy. Eduardo Fellner, promoter of Chaher. The former head of Jujeño Peronism for more than a decade, until the triumph of the radical Morales in 2015, gave clear signals in recent weeks of being willing to participate in a possible agreement. “I’m going to get back into the armed forces, in the reconstruction of Justicialism, I owe the PJ my entire political life,” he said in an interview.
Despite the summer vacation, Moisés and Chaer are working on setting up their spaces and if there is no unity, a week after the long weekend for Carnival, a festivity with great attendance in Jujuy, they will face each other at the polls.
Source: Ambito

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