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Even aligned with Máximo Kirchner, the mayors were never convinced by the formula announced by Cristina. “We never saw her so weak and doubtful. In the end, Alberto ate her,” they point out. Now the Governor would seek to unfold.
Cristina Kirchner and La Cámpora had a hard time digesting this new version of Daniel Scioli. “If the top scorer had shown this conviction, he would have been President in 2015,” laments a Peronist chief from Greater Buenos Aires.
Before Cristina’s embarrassing swerve by handing over Wado and the children of the decimated generation, the GBA bosses got tired of warning that the interior minister was a bad candidate who put reelection in several municipalities at risk.
Even the stainless bosses of the Conurbano also hinted that Scioli was even a better alternative than the co-founder of La Cámpora. Added to this was last-minute pressure from the governors.
“The governors alarmed Cristina. They told her that in the interior, between Scioli and Wado, many were going to elect the Brazilian ambassador. If that happened and Scioli won STEP, it was literally the end of Kirchnerism. That’s why they convinced her to put it to Massa, even paying the great cost of this paper”, reflects with information and personal vision.
The confusion in La Cámpora and in La Provincia was impossible to hide. In La Plata, gravity suddenly disappeared. Nobody could get up. “Now the idea of unfolding the elections is taking shape again. More than ever, the entire future of Kirchnerism depends on retaining and resisting in Buenos Aires. Let Massa manage as the new captain of the Titanic,” a member told Clarín of the provincial cabinet
In the always glassy political laboratory of the Conurbano they began to see something that sounds less and less strange: perhaps the best card that the PJ has to retain power is that Daniel Scioli managed to hit the ground and defeat Wado De Pedro. In politics there is no way to hit the effect of surprise. Something like that happened 35 years ago, when an unknown Carlos Menem astonished the country by beating Antonio Cafiero. That victory led to a national eagerness to find out who this charismatic sideburner was who dreamed of being president.
Wado de Pedro is a bad candidate according to the majority of the chiefs of the Conurbano.
Several mayors glimpse that if Scioli “hits the bump and beats Cristina”, he could also generate that inertia of the surprise effect that the PJ would need to face the real elections in October.
Among the heads of the GBA, all this Scioli issue began to take shape, probably pushed by reality but also by anger. Most believed that Wado was a bad candidate. Even so, they will all be glued to the ballot that Máximo Kirchner imposed on them.
Daniel Scioli with the host Fernando Gray, perhaps the only mayor along with Mario Ishii who did not kneel to the Maximo Kirchner and Martín Insaurralde tandem.
“This is so: Scioli talks to us perhaps more often than we talk to Wado. And we understand that he is even a better candidate, as Massa was. But for something that is hard for me to explain to you without losing shame, once again we align ourselves with the Kirchnerism,” a head of the Third Cordon tells Clarín.
“Scioli was already asking us to take care of his ballot and that there be no imponderables when he comes to campaign, such as suddenly having his power cut off at an event or a ‘spontaneous’ group of neighbors coming out to put him down,” says another boss. communal but of the First Section.
“The boys managed to be re-elected with support of over 60% when I was Governor. Let them stop operating. We will have candidates in each municipality and we are going to compete,” Daniel Scioli replies to Clarín.
In order to keep them in the trenches, Máximo had to do something that I always hate: give all the local power to the mayors. To put together the lists for councilors, in almost all the municipalities the pen is almost exclusively for the local chiefs.
In addition, Máximo gave them a trap in the internal coexistence of the parties that will leave many injured: for the first time the floor to intercalate candidates will be 30% and, most damaging, that exchange that historically was fourth place for those who exceed the floor in the internal went to the Seventh.
“What La Cámpora did was crazy: it will leave wounded on all sides that after the STEP they will not even play in their favor. The strange thing is that all of us allow it, still sniffing the smell of cove in several communes that I think are leaving to lose”, admits another mayor.
that extraordinary victory
Menem de Cafiero. If Scioli wins, he can be president.
