A few minutes after 18, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro He shook all Peronism with a public request on his social networks. “It is time for a woman, who has been a member of Peronism all her life, to preside over the Justicialist Party for the first time,” he wrote. This is how he nominated the former vice president Cristina Kirchner to lead the National PJ.
“Cristina is the leader of Peronism and has given complete examples of her unwavering commitment to the dreams and desires of our people. He knows every corner of the country and interprets the needs like no one else. In this difficult time for Argentines, she can shine a light of hope with her strategic gaze. and their courage to organize ourselves again and begin reconstruction,” said the La Cámpora representative.
A few minutes later, the mayor of Quilmes joined in, Mayra Mendoza, and assured: “To order the disorderly and straighten the crooked, it is time for Peronist women. We deserve Cristina Kirchner, president of the National Justicialist Party.” So La Cámpora launched the operation for the former president to lead the party.
As time went by, the Cristinista joined the nomination. Juliana Di Tulliothe man from Santiago José Neder and the mayor of Ezeiza, Gaston Granadoswho stated: “She is the undisputed and exclusive leader of the National Justicialist Movement throughout all of Argentina.”
The application comes sixteen days after the deadline to present the lists for candidates of the National PJ, which will have elections next November 17. Until now the only one who had applied to lead the party was the governor of La Rioja, Ricardo Quintela. But The publication of De Pedro y Mendoza breaks the tense calm that existed in Peronism and It raises endless questions about what CFK will do in the next few hours.
Just as Quintela was clear in his vocation to be a consensus candidate for the PJ, he was also clear with his interlocutors and assured them that if Cristina Kirchner was willing to preside over the party, he was going to run and respect his presidential investiture. The truth is that De Pedro’s proposal is missing the second part, which is the acceptance of the former vice president.
The senator’s message also comes two days after the former president unexpectedly landed in the Buenos Aires suburbs, specifically in La Matanza, and moved in electoral mode, without the company of the local mayor, Fernando Espinozaand the governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof. There were two surprise movements by Kirchnerism in a handful of hours.
If Cristina Kirchner were to want to play hard and take command of the National PJ, it is likely that Peronism would enter a state of upheaval and deep debate. “If she goes to PJ, everything breaks”said a Buenos Aires leader who anticipated: “There are many Peronists in the interior who do not feel represented by her.”
“Electoral defeats, even more so those that occur after a bad Peronist government, fuel the search for culprits and scapegoats. Within Peronism, these scenarios usually lead to the renewal of the desire for a liberal, centrist Peronism, which wants to exclude Kirchnerism. For this reason, we believe that CFK at the head of the party shields Peronism from a new liberal drift,” reflected an important leader of the group led by Máximo Kirchner.
Another Campanist leader analyzed his possible application and linked it to a perfect movement to annul “the ban.” “In a scenario of political-judicial entrapment that electorally bans his figure, under the permanent threat of arrest, The presidency of the PJ will be an intelligent move to disarm that operation and guarantee Cristina’s public permanence regardless of whether or not she is a candidate.”he indicated.
In anti-K Peronism, which is aligned with Quintela, the view was more critical. “It is a move to paralyze, block party discussion and postpone the election date to March,” complained a leader who has a prominent place among the party’s advisors.
Another interior leader sees CFK’s move as an obstruction to Axel Kicillof’s electoral projection. “In three days they slapped her twice and marked her court,” she said, in reference to the visit of the former vice president to La Matanza and the nomination of La Cámpora to be the president of the PJ.
In the ultra K group they believe that Cristina is the only leader who can unite the different sectors of Peronism and generate a new political proposal for society. Furthermore, they believe that she may be the one leading the rediscussion of the Peronist doctrine and the economic program, topics that were addressed by her during her last conferences.
What lies ahead is a scenario of deep discussion and new positions regarding the renewal of Peronism. Those who love Cristina Kirchner and warn that it is time for her to lead the party, and those who resist her and assure that if the former president reaches the leadership of the PJ, Peronism will crack even more.