An important part of the leadership of the peronism that has marked the last two decades seems to insist on the practice of a almost suicidal game. The personalism bid that mask the absence of a seductive or viable political and economic project in the face of a society that has punished them. And very harshly.
The faces and voices that enter this increasingly smaller ring – that of Kirchnerism – look worn out, because they are repetitive. To make matters worse, they speak publicly on behalf of old or new leaderships without proposing revisions or a sustainable future.
Let’s make names. In the last hours, the former Campista leader Andrés ‘Cuervo’ Larroque the governor’s leadership came out to bank hard Axel Kicillof. The Buenos Aires official, also faithful to his style, issued harsh reprimands towards those who conspire against the president and criticized that Cristina Fernández de Kirchner expressed by third parties.
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Larroque’s usual sharp language was joined by the support of other figures of disenchanted Kirchnerism, such as the mayors. Jorge Ferraresi (Avellaneda) and Mario Secco (Ensenada), the ineffable Anibal Fernandez and the unionist Hugo Yasky.
The darts are by elevation to CFK, but the direct target is his son Máximo Kirchner. With a classic, somewhat rocky relationship with Kicillof, Kirchner Jr. managed to avoid another attempt to move to the head of the Buenos Aires PJ. There will be future ones, it is to be expected.
The defensive reply came from two leaders of La Cámpora, the Buenos Aires senator Mariano Recalde (re-elected as president of the capital’s PJ) and Mayra Mendoza, mayor of Quilmes. For now, neither Máximo nor his mother spoke out. Even by letter.
Leaders of these sides, and of the extra K Peronism, are not very shy about pointing out that with these public bids (much more the hidden ones) an attempt is made to begin to settle who will have the pen for the assembly of the 2025 legislative lists. Basically, if the ink can be dried on Cristina’s.
Axel Kicillof and Cristina Kirchner.
That purpose includes the Province of Buenos Aires, logically. Although it exceeds it: the Peronist debacle in the provinces, in which they fell in so many districts that they governed never before like last year, encourages several leaders and potential leaders to distance themselves from CFK’s remote control. This feint was reiterated in recent decades. It will come to fruition someday. Will it be this turn?
It could be pointed out that the dispute goes beyond the mere legislative question of next year and actually involves What will pankirchnerism or panperonism lead to?. That very distant galaxy in which dissimilar planets orbit, like those represented Sergio Massa, Juan Grabois, Martín Llaryora, Miguel Pichetto or the tiny (electorally speaking) Guillermo Moreno.
However, party sources recognize that such a level of debate is outside the current discussion table. “We do not leave our intern that did so much damage during Alberto’s four years“, mutters a renowned Peronist. He made it clearer two weeks ago Malena Galmarini: “Peronism is very stupid”.
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It is true that many Peronists who govern provinces and municipalities may be more concerned about avoiding derailment in management – a product of the accumulation of past, current and future difficulties – than about getting a glimpse of where the party that shelters them is going.
Perhaps these tribulations fuel the expansion of who do not have executive responsibilities and prefer to entertain themselves with the unlimited pastime of internal, in the eyes of a long-suffering society. Too much.
As a kind of analogy to the classic story of “The three Little Pigs“, a sector of Peronism perseveres in playing in the forest while the wolf is absent. It happens that they do not notice that the wolf, perhaps disguised as lion, arrived, appealed to the chainsaw and the flamethrower and is leaving them without the political grove in which they laid down their roots of comfort. That’s how it went for them.