The Peronist intern continues to be red hot: this Saturday the governor of La Rioja, Ricardo Quintela, will define whether he maintains his list as a candidate for the presidency of the Justicialista Party, after the Partisan Electoral Board required him to present almost 14,000 missing endorsements. If the requirement is not met, the payroll presented by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will be made official as “single list“.
In the last hours, the debate over the elections became tense after the statements of Máximo Kirchner in reference to the role of the Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillof, and the subsequent defense of Quintela who stated that he should not get involved “to Axel in this because he has absolutely nothing to do with it. The elections will take place on November 17.
What will happen to Ricardo Quintela’s list?
At this time, it is still not known if the Governor of La Rioja may appear to contest the PJ internal election. Therefore, the elections to be held on November 17 are not yet confirmed and will depend on what happens this Saturday.
It is that the Electoral Board He demanded that the Rioja submit almost 14,000 missing guarantees to be able to continue in the race in the dispute for the presidency of the PJ. With the signature of the representatives of the national PJ Juan Manuel Olmos and Eduardo López Wessellhoefftthe governing body of the elections indicated in an official statement that the “Federals, a cry from the heart” list must present the documents to reach the regulatory 2% of the total register of affiliates who support the candidacy.
Quintela’s team is holding a meeting this afternoon to define the “steps to follow” at the request of the electoral authorities and they are working against the clock since the deadline for presentation expires at 9 p.m. Quintela’s entourage assured this medium that the endorsements were “presented and disappeared“.
Along these lines, sources from the “Federals, a cry from the heart” list stated that the digital registry “contains all” the required guarantees and They assure that they are not going to complete something that they have already presented.
On the other hand, the list of the former president is already enabled by the partisan electoral justice. Regarding the controversy surrounding Quintela’s presentation, from the Primero la Patria front they requested, through an official document, the authorization of their competitors: “We request the fellow members of the Electoral Board provide with broad and non-restrictive criteria, the authorization of the ‘A cry of the Heart’ list to participate in the internal party election to be held on November 17,” the text detailed.
Ricardo Quintela denied that Axel Kicillof had helped him in his candidacy
Kicillof was, in recent days, one of the central topics that haunts the Peronist internal ahead of the November elections. During Friday, the national deputy Máximo Kirchner referred to the role of the Buenos Aires governor and awakened responses after his sayings.
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In response to what Máximo stated, Quintela demanded: “Don’t involve Axel in this because he has absolutely nothing to do with it.“. “They said that people who are with Axel worked for me. It isn’t true“said the governor.
“Neither Ferraresi, nor Mussi, nor any mayor, nor any minister of Axel Kicillof gathered endorsements for me. I flatly deny it because it was not like that. It isn’t true. “It happens that they want to involve Axel as if he takes a position with respect to me,” the Rioja native analyzed.
Regarding his relationship with Máximo, Quintela recalled that “he was the first one I went to see to chat. I told him that Peronism had dismantled and become a confederation of provinces. that had lost its character national movement and that we had to put it back together.”
“I went out for a walk, not with the intention of being president of the PJ, but because he saw Peronism stagnant and that no one raised their arms or wanted to go out for a walk and talk to their colleagues,” he added.
In that sense, he maintained: “I never dared to judge a couple because each province has its difficulties and problems. Some have to understand that When you govern a province, you have to respond to the interests of your constituents, those who cast the vote. I don’t dare to judge a partner. If I have to say or criticize something that I don’t agree with, I would tell them in four walls.”
Finally, in his statements to Radio 10, Quintela stated: “I am not anyone’s employee. Politics drives me. Nobody sends me. “That is not in Peronism.”
In his electoral race for the presidency of the PJ, Ricardo Quintela chose as vice-presidential candidates: Magda Ayala (mayor of the Chaco city of Barranqueras), the former Puntano governor Alberto Rodríguez Saáthe union secretary of UPCN Capital Mariana Gadealegislator from Tucumán Roque Álvarez and Alba Sanchez (mayor of the Salta city of La Viña).
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