Global Courant
What was planned as an act to launch Sergio Massa as a candidate for president ended up being a monologue by Cristina Kirchner, with harsh criticism of Alberto Fernández and special mentions against officials such as Daniel Scioli, Victoria Tolosa Paz and Santiago Cafiero, among others, as well of a reflection on the economy and accuse the International Monetary Fund of causing the increase in inflation.
During a speech of about 45 minutes, before an audience of officials, with no journalists in the room and almost no militants present, Cristina once again occupied the center of the scene and revealed in detail how the negotiations of the last week that led to the presentation of Massa’s candidacy and the decision to drop Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro as a candidate. She did so as part of the presentation of a plane used during the dictatorship to carry out the so-called “flights of death”, in an act that took place at the Aeroparque Military Aerostation (AMA).
“The President was flagged in making a STEP”, was the hottest message of Cristina’s speech towards Alberto Fernández, who had incredibly given an opening message prior to the same act in which the Vice hit him hard.
CFK’s allusion had to do with the President’s plan, contrary to what she understood as the need to “build a list of unity” to which governors and mayors also adhered. In this line, the Vice gave revelations about how the talks that ended in the decision, on Friday afternoon, to anoint Massa as an official presidential candidate in a STEP in which only the wayward Juan Grabois will compete, with a list own, whom Cristina did not mention in her entire speech.
Referring to the possibility that Daniel Scioli would have been a candidate within that primary that never was, the former president was clear about what her determination would have been: “I told Sergio (Massa) that if there was a STEP, our force would support Wado de Pedro, who was our candidate”. However, the final decision was to go with a single candidate.
“It is obvious that Wado was not going to have the President’s consent,” Cristina snapped at Fernández, again using him as a puching ball. “Don’t worry,” encouraged the Minister of the Interior and candidate for national senator, who smiled in the first row of the auditorium specially prepared for the act.
About De Pedro he also described: “That the governors did not want it, that is not true. The governors wanted a list of unity, with the consensus of the President of the Nation, president of the party, and all of us who make up the front.”
He also dedicated several sections of his message to talk about Scioli, although in a more respectful way. “Not even with a 45 in my head did they make me speak to anyone either to go up or down,” he said in relation to Scioli, who finally ended up getting off and with whom the Vice admitted having had a talk on Sunday night, before that the former Buenos Aires governor resume his functions as ambassador of Brazil.
Cristina Kirchner, in the act with Sergio Massa after the closing of lists for the 2023 elections, at Aeroparque.
“You cannot force people to do something they do not want or go to a place they do not want. It is the responsibility of each leader,” said the Vice, who nevertheless fired heavy artillery against Tolosa Paz and Cafiero, the two candidates for national deputies that the President slipped onto the list.
“Until last Friday, 24 hours before the list closed, we had the Minister of Social Development of our government proposing internal elections to the governor of the province of Buenos Aires. And we had our ambassador in Brazil for president,” Cristina recalled. . De Cafiero spoke as “the chancellor”, adding that the President finally managed to put him on the list.
In this sense, Cristina spoke of “two charges” in Deputies. One was for the chancellor and “one for which she competed against Axel (Kicillof) for the governorship,” Cristina slipped, with the intention of demonstrating her disdain for the minister and her personal aspirations.
From Cristina to Massa: “Telephone, minister and candidate…”
In addition, Cristina criticized the President with a hint for having been part of what she called “the most important parliamentary defeat in the history of democracy”, alluding to the 2021 electoral debacle that the extinct Frente de Todos had in the whole country.
The act, in fact, was prepared for the presentation of an airplane that was used in the so-called “flights of death” during the dictatorship and that was acquired through efforts of the Ministry of Economy. It was the perfect occasion to present Sergio Massa as a presidential candidate, although the official, in the manner of Cristina, also received some underhanded Chicana.
“You are a ‘fullero’, because with each thing you say you add ‘I bet you this, I bet you the other… Well, it’s okay to bet, because to win you have to bet,’ he commented in an electoral tone to the person sitting next to him. right during the act. At the end, he made another comment, more sharp, about the negotiation with the IMF that he faces as Minister of Economy, blaming the organization as the cause of the increase in inflation. “Hello, how are you? Phone for the minister. For the minister and candidate, for you,” he told her.
As she usually does in her latest speeches, the vice president also dedicated a section to the city of Buenos Aires. Along these lines, she somehow replied to the questions that Gildo Insfrán had asked her on Sunday when he went to vote, before being re-elected as governor of Formosa.
“They talk about fiefdoms in the interior, but the city is a region, the Macri, now there is the cousin,” said Cristina Kirchner. And after that, she congratulated Insfrán for having achieved an electoral victory that allows him to channel his eighth consecutive term.
Finally, Cristina once again stated that she is “outlawed” and asked that they not come to her with “technicalities”. And she left a message ahead of the elections: “Neoliberalism wants, at any rate, by beatings or whatever, for workers to accept any result of their income. We have bad news for you: there are still many Peronists in Argentina.” .
