With less than a week until the deadline for submitting lists to the national PJ, the candidacy of Cristina Kirchner to lead the Justicialist force he opened a internal in the Buenos Aires version of the party. A statement released in the last few hours by members of the City PJ He questioned the capital leadership for spreading a message of support without consultation. “Driving is not commanding, it is persuading,” they criticized.
Last Wednesday, the Buenos Aires force chaired by Senator Mariano Recalde published on social networks a message of support for the former president’s nomination to head the leadership of the Justicialist Party, in which they expressed the need to build “an alternative” to the libertarian model, with leadership that allows “align ideas, action and speech.”
“In times of setbacks and loss of rights, It is necessary that comrade Cristina Fernández de Kirchner preside over the Justicialista Party and lead the unity that the time demands of us to build the alternative to the libertarian model,” they noted and added: “Our people need a Peronism that recovers the debate that allows ideas, action and discourse to be aligned, to restore hope to Argentines. “We firmly believe that Cristina has the track record, legitimacy and attributes necessary to achieve this.”
Internal in the PJ of Ciudad: “Democracy in the country and in the party is not only defended with the vote”
The statement was not well received by a sector of the City’s PJ, who They questioned the lack of participation, debate and consensus within the force, at a time when it is proposed to advance in a renewal that contains the representation of all the actors that comprise it. “The undersigned want to state that the statement was not discussed or approved in the corresponding party bodies.places where the ideas and opinions of the different colleagues must be expressed and where the will of the party is defined,” they criticized.
The document, which bears the signature of PJ Capital representatives, including its vice president, Juan Manuel Abal Medina, and the vice president of the Metropolitan Congress of the force, Fernando Barrera, emphasizes that ““Democracy in the country and in the party is not only defended with the vote, it is also defended with participation, debate and defense of the institutions.”. And he affirms that to honor its operation is to strengthen its identity “in the divergence and plurality of ideas”, as well as “to strengthen the debate that our movement necessarily owes.”
The leaders of the Buenos Aires PJ made clear their discomfort with the way in which the leadership avoided the debate and communicated unconsulted support. “We would have loved to debate the renewal of Peronismthe need to build a party with federal representation, the participation of workers and social movements and also contain the expression of those who may think differently. That is the exercise that we must multiply to enjoy a better democracy,” they closed.
In addition to Abal Medina and Barrier, The statement released tonight has the signature of Maia Volkovinsky (Metropolitan Councilor PJ Capital), Estefania Mensi (Metropolitan Councilor PJ Capital Union Sector) and Marcandit orlando (Substitute Metropolitan Councilor).
The PJ waiting for a contact between Cristina Kirchner and Ricardo Quintela
The internal PJ Capital arrives in the middle of “operational clamor” launched by leaders close to Cristina Kirchner already The Campora to finalize the arrival of the former president to the national leadership of the party. Despite the nomination of the former president, the governor of La Rioja, Ricardo Quintela, who had anticipated the Kirchnerisimo’s move, announced that he will continue his campaign to preside over the PJ, although he opened the doors to reaching a unity list that avoids the internal one.
The deadline to submit the lists is running out. Next Saturday is the deadline. In this context, an open-air internal mine is looming in the peronism and Quintela, as Ámbito learned, will try to communicate this Monday with Cristina Kirchner to agree on a unity list for the internal elections scheduled for November 17.
The “operational clamor” pushed the former president to accept the candidacy with an extensive letter published last week. On the last page of the document, under the subtitle “Straighten and order” he stated: “As things stand, today Peronism only governs 5 of the 23 Argentine provinces and lost the majority in the Chamber of Senators; this being a situation of loss of power.” unprecedented institutional representation in the democratic period”.
On this point she stated: “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, unity needs direction and a project to build the best possible Peronism in an Argentina that has become impossible for the majority of its inhabitants.”
Beyond the intentions of the former president, and the support that surrounds her, Quintela will insist on being the future head of the PJ. In the last hours, The provincial leader, far from abandoning the race, reaffirmed his intentions to put an end to party acephaly after the inevitable resignation of Alberto Fernandez to continue leading the party. It remains to be seen if there is finally a unit list or if the PJ is heading to an open-air prison.
Source: Ambito
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