Cristina Kirchner has stopped competing in polls, but remains a political reference

“Thank you so much, so my love, that’s what kept me going,” she told her thousands of followers last Thursday. About half a million people gathered under the rain. May SquareIn front of the Headquarters building for the anniversary celebrations 20 years of the assumption of her husband Néstor Kirchnerbut I’m also waiting for a signal at the ballot boxes that allows to avoid disaster.

This babbling A gift from the vice president. You can talk without reading paper. In his case, this is no simple predisposition for oratory. HE kirchnerism In these two decades, he has created a dramaturgy with his patriotic staging and the music of rock idols. Cristina decided to accompany her grandchildren at her final public presentation, as those who adore or despise her. However, it does not impose on them the responsibility of continuing a political work. Fernandez de Kirchner Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof shared the stage with Interior Ministers Eduardo ‘Wado’ de Pedro and Economy Minister Sergio Massa. All three are marked as follows: potential presidential candidates. All three of them went home, not knowing what to do.

This 20 years of Kirchnerism It’s a matter of different balances these days. He couldn’t miss his own inventory. In this sense, he reminded that the GDP of this country was 164 billion dollars in 2003 and increased to 647 million dollars in 2015, when he finished his second term. “We paid a debt of 100 billion dollars in 12 and a half years we didn’t make a contract. Was it magic? Are we genius? No, it was a society-building model, a value-added, socially inclusive, well-paid production model that sustains the national industry. Because giving a good salary is not a sin, on the contrary, it is for good Christians.

Crisis and soap opera

The euphorias of the recent past come face-to-face with the reality of a government whose president, Alberto Fernández, anointed with his holy finger in 2019. Argentina is experiencing its worst inflation one of the last 30 years poverty Over 40%, minimum wage 35% below 2015, and a permanent horizon of financial disaster. The vice president doesn’t talk to the president. They both performed long soap operacolored with political disagreements, undisguised grudges And cross insults. It’s all over at once sound break in full management. Fernandez He was absent from the great spectacle in memory of Néstor Kirchner. He wasn’t even invited. The vice president specifically blames him for not daring to face the following problem: External debt left by right-wing predecessor Mauricio Macri.

The current Peronist government renegotiated with $45,000 million International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the conditions austerity unsustainable in the middle Economic crisis deepened by a historical drought. “Despite the differences and mistakes, this government is much better than any other Macri government could have been,” he said with a dose of indulgence.

Out of the game of choice

Fernández de Kirchner “does not want to participate in the election because he believes it will happen”forbidden“. On it a sentence in the first case six years in prison and disqualification to hold permanent public office. “They’re banning me because I’m not one of them, I’m from the people,” he said. corruption case in public works that must be approved by higher judicial authorities. The vice president feels preconceived. “This (Supreme) Court is a real scumbag” because it is “run by a clique that is not worthy of Argentine history,” he said.

Fernandez de Kirchner calls for a common “political” solution to the problem. IMF debt and a control strategic resourcesaspect lithium. He urges Argentines to renew the “democratic pact” and build “serious capitalism” after the assassination attempt, whose investigation he strongly criticizes. His followers demand more rage from him for being a kind of Peronist ‘Passionaria’. They demand that it participate in the elections and stop the rise of the far right, which feeds on social discontent. He expresses his discomfort with this “rite”. But the Kirchneristas continue to bet on an impossible miracle: that she will reconsider her decision not to compete in October.