vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner denying voluntary withdrawal from participation in political and electoral life Argentina. “here’s a bansaid three weeks after he was sentenced to six years in prison by a federal court in a case involving public works management during his two governments (2007-15). While speaking during a public demonstration around Buenos Aires, Fernández de Kirchner echoed some of the ideas expressed on the day his sentence was announced, which also included a ban on holding elective posts. He assured the ruling party Peronizm that there was a “parallel state that determines the life of everyone” in this country. fight for “the one” democracy without the mafia”.
The leader, the target of an assassination attempt this year, has re-emerged amid a new and intense conflict between the national government and the city of Buenos Aires, led by the right-wing opposition and whose mayor, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, is mayor. aims to win the next October elections. Larreta is one of the references in that field that celebrated the decision on the vice president on Dec. According to him it was immunity was defeated. For the vice president, “what they did was this: filing a complaintwith an almost surgical chronology of choice”.
According to that, “three-year gun testFernández de Kirchner compared the decision to the justification that it was forbidden to utter and sing the words ‘Perón’, ‘Evita’ when Peronism was overthrown in September 1956. Peronist March”. Vice President He invited his followers to the show On the 47th anniversary of the March 24 coup, with the slogan ‘Argentina and democracy without the mafia’. In this context, he argued, “After the restoration of this democracy 40 years later, it is not fair to the millions of Argentines who have suffered the consequences of dictatorship or who continue to believe that democracy is the best way to live among us.”
According to Patricia Bullrich, another of the right-wing presidential candidates, Fernández de Kirchner “ living in the past and that it has absolutely nothing to offer the Argentines”.
Institutional conflict
During his speech, the vice president questioned the Supreme Court’s decision to order President Alberto Fernández to increase federal funds received by the City of Buenos Aires from 2.32% to 2.95%. In this regard, he noted that the highest judicial authority “overlooked” a law enacted by Congress that “blessed the new distribution” of funds between the national government and the states. In response, he recalled that under President Mauricio Macri (2015-19) a decree was passed that gave Argentina’s capital much more money than it said would correspond to “Argentina’s richest city”. Fernández tried to resolve the situation with another decree, which was rejected in the Supreme Court decision. “We are faced with an unlawful reality as if the rule of law has disappeared.” and stated that this “affects the quality of life of citizens”.
disturbing selection horizon
Fernández de Kirchner’s new public intervention does not seem likely to change the horizon of expectations of Peronism in the face of the 2023 elections. The ruling party has no candidate for now.. What he already knows is that his chances of retaining the Government are increasingly limited by high inflation, which is almost 100% a year, and economic adjustment, which is hitting especially the social sectors most affected.
In this context, it became clear how a new survey was conducted. far-right Javier Milei It has a technical connection with Peronism.which could leave him out of a possible runoff with the right-wing candidate.