Axel Kicillof congratulated Cristina Kirchner after assuming office as president of the PJ: ‘”Unity and reconstruction”

Axel Kicillofgovernor of Buenos Aires, congratulated this Wednesday Cristina Kirchner after the ceremony where she assumed office as president of the National Justicialist Party (PJ). The provincial president, who was not part of the event, used his social networks to send a message to the former president of the Nation.

”I congratulate @CFKArgentina and the new authorities in the face of this new challenge of unity and reconstruction of the @p_justicialista”, Kicillof expressed on his X account (formerly Twitter), after not attending the speech of the new leader of the space.

The absence of the governor, which Ámbito learned was due to scheduling problems, can be taken as a new escalation in the internal conflict between Kicillof and Kirchnerism. The president carried out activities in Pehuajó, Carlos Casares and Bragrado that had been planned for more than a week.

For his part, Kirchner targeted some leaders, including Kicillof, whom accused of having become an ”electoral militant”; which is why he raised and highlighted the need for party leaders resume their role as ”political militants”.

Speech by Cristina Kirchner upon assuming office as president of the PJ

In his speech, Cristina Kirchner He framed his speech on the anniversary of the first year of the inauguration of Javier Milei: “There is an acceptance of society to an exercise of violent adjustment on sectorsas long as they don’t touch them. This is not about social criticism but about a description. “What Argentina is experiencing today is older than the sun. It is the fourth experience of financial valuation,” he considered.

In this context, he asked: “Who is going to invest in a factory, a business or anything that provides work if I have a system that allows me to earn in dollars? This is today the Government of Javier Milei; Let them tell it however they want, but this is it. And extractivist, consecrated by the RIGI“. When referring to the approval of the regime in the Bases law in the Senatedeveloped the role of the legislator Edgardo Kueider and asked “how was that vote obtained?”: “Laws against the people and the interests of the Nation are achieved this way“.

Subsequently, it recognized the maintenance of the trade surplus but understood that “it is not enough to cover the deficit in services.” In turn, he stated that “the laundering was a success” but he indicated that “this year we have a debt of almost US$ 100,000 million more“and that there is no “virtuous renegotiation, but a forced one, because they do not have dollars or access to international markets.”

At one point in his speech, Cristina Kirchner began analyzing the cover of an opposition newspaper in 2015. “The CGT stopped at that time“, he ironized and pointed out that the media had responsibility in the loss of confidence in politics. “After each cycle of national and democratic governments, they brand themselves again with policies of neoliberalism in cycles that I call depradation and appropriation”, he analyzed and concluded with humor: “Milei lives at Disney, like she’s on a birthday.”

Cristina Kirchner’s path to the presidency of the Justicialist Party

Cristina will assume the presidency of the PJ after months of tension internally over the leadership of the party, after what were the failed elections against the governor of La Rioja Ricardo Quintela.

After a series of activities in the province of Buenos AiresCristina Kirchner began a series of federal tours that It started last November 17th, when the leader made her first act as head of the PJ in Santiago del Estero.

The next stop was in Rosario, at the closing ceremony of the National Health Meeting. There, Cristina Kirchner avoided any reference to the internal discussion and focused on confronting the libertarian management, after which was the decision to cut PAMI medications.