Global Courant 2023-05-15 09:00:27
They see the economy minister cornered by a crisis that they foresee will deepen. The Vice President takes advantage of the fact that the FR leader cannot resign and plans for him to be the father of the electoral defeat so that Kicillof has a chance of re-election.
In the Frente de Todos it became fashionable to affirm something publicly and then send the troop of collaborators to spread the exact opposite. Cristina swore not to be a candidate for anything but she promotes (and orders to finance) the clamor operation with events throughout the country. She already did it in 2011, when those who made her curlers won the bet against those who left their hair straight.
Alberto Fernandez also came and went with his re-election. “Definitely, definitely”, he repeated in Madrid when a Spanish journalist asked him about his candidacy. A few hours later, with the news already installed in Argentina, he came out to deny that he said what he said.
Máximo Kirhner and the heads of the GBA are already preparing the candidacy of Sergio Massa, using the failure with inflation so that the leader of the FR cannot refuse to be the face of defeat in the elections.
Perhaps the one who has most polished this strange skill of saying something to do the opposite is Sergio Massa. “It is not compatible to be a minister and a candidate”, he gets tired of reiterating before (almost) everyone. But he shows up at events to speak with the tone of a candidate and in the Buenos Aires PJ there are several who claim to have heard him say that “if they help me, I’ll get in the ring.”
In reality, Máximo Kirchner and the powerful Peronism of Greater Buenos Aires have been seeing Massa in the ring for a long time. “He climbed on his own when he chose to sell himself as the Superman of the Economy. His rival was always inflation and he is losing by KO. But even if they grind him to pineapples, Sergio knows that no one can throw in the towel. He would be left without power and as the last father of the economic crisis”, describes a suburban chief before the gaze of another mayor and Clarín.
Axel Kicillof criticizes Massa for his performance in the economy. But he needs him as a candidate for President of the FPV for his re-election adventure.
For Buenos Aires Peronism, Cristina is the one who best understands Massa’s trap. And she takes advantage. “Sergio is not Alberto’s minister. He is not Cristina’s official either. He is a voracious politician who wants to be the boss and keep everything. He gets up, goes to bed and sleeps dreaming of being president. Everything he faces is to gain power or, in this case, to survive. And it’s not bad. He has already reinvented himself by becoming a partner of La Cámpora. Now will he accept being the father of the electoral failure so that Máximo retains power in the Province?”, a Peronist leader of the La Cámpora questions Third Section with considerable influence in the provincial Legislature.
Much of this was discussed this Saturday, first on stage and then below, at the Congress of the PJ in Buenos Aires in La Matanza. “Maximum attributed a range that he does not have by assuring that he does not want to be a candidate for anything. Even in that he copies his mother. Being a candidate for what? How many votes does he have? Who asks him to be a candidate? This is not serious Today the only chance he has is, hopefully, to try to sneak in and go unnoticed on a list of national deputies,” shot one of the congressmen who participated in the act and sees an opaque future for the PJ.
In the power of Greater Buenos Aires there are many rumors, increasingly strong, that the Supreme Court could kick the table again, as it did when suspending the elections in Tucumán and San Juan.
“I have information, from a very good source, that the courtiers would play hard and overturn Máximo as president of the PJ. If that happens, hold on Catalina,” warns a GBA leader with many years as Mayor of the First Section.
It turns out that Máximo was never voted to be the leader of the Buenos Aires PJ. His charge overflows with irregularities. The affiliate never chose it. The agreement of the head of La Cámpora with Martín Insaurralde as a reference for the Peronist mayors managed to remove Fernando Gray from the presidency of the party in April 2021. And with the excuse of the pandemic, elections were never called.
“I know that the Court has at least already seen the file of a complaint about the Buenos Aires PJ. If they want to play hard, they are going to rule against Máximo because the truth is that he has not even completed two years as a Peronist affiliate in Buenos Aires Aires,” says another community chief.
Returning to Massa, for Cristina the minister is just a fuse for the car to reach the elections. She doesn’t care that her engine dies later. “It is clear that, despite the pressure from Máximo, he does not want to get Kicillof out of the province. We have rarely seen her so irascible. Parrilli or Alberto no longer have the exclusivity of asshole, it extended to all of us, from Massa to the mayors”, assures a senior leader who shared the last act with Cristina at the Teatro de La Plata.
Juan Grabois shoots Sergio Massa whenever he can, “because he is on the right and is always on the side of the establishment.”
In the GBA and part of the Government they believe that Daniel Scioli will not be a problem for Massa to be the only candidate. “Cristina lowers it with a text message,” they say. Yes, they all discount that there will be problems with Grabois, who cannot see Massa even in figurines. “We told Máximo that it was not such a good idea to push his candidacy. He even sent Kicillof to launch Grabois. Now he is going to have to give him a high place as National Deputy,” advances one of the GBA bosses.
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