Discarded the Cristina Kirchner candidacythe countdown was activated this Tuesday for the ruling party to define the electoral strategy for the PASO of August 13. In view of the inflation rates, the deterioration of purchasing power, and the “pessimistic” social mood that emerges from various public opinion leaders, the leaders of the Frente de Todos discuss behind closed doors the possible candidates to “turn the election around in the Province and in the country”.
The national Justicialista Party (PJ) held a congress on Tuesday, May 16, at the Ferro Carril Oeste club, in which the role of the vice president in the electoral contest continued to be debated. However, The head of the Senate made her “reasoned and thoughtful” decision not to be a candidatewhich “cleared” the way for other referents within the official coalition.
The great dilemma to be resolved that Peronism still has ahead of it is whether it prevails several pre-candidates presidential candidates competing in the PASO or if they converge on a single consensus nomination.
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Yes ok sergio masa consolidated in recent months as one of the candidates of the Frente de Todos, not even the Minister of Economy generated enough consensus to lower the rest of the lists. Added to this is the weak economic situation after knowing the 8.4% inflation in April.
Consulted at the beginning of May at the AmCham Summit 2023 about an eventual candidacy for president in the next elections, Massa said that “I have been fortunate since I was 27 years old to have all the responsibilities that someone in institutional life can have. Sometimes it is not what you want but the context”.
“The issue of the family context for me is a whole issue. The family I have is the most important thing I have built in my life. That is a condition, ”she said.
“Second, I believe that a government, even if it is a coalition government, has the obligation to provide certainty, and part of that certainty is Do not expose your internal debates to society“, he added.
That is why Massa thinks that a STEP should not be considered among members of the Frente de Todos coalition. “This wanting expose in a primary if the government has differences or not, The truth is that it seems to me a very serious mistake”.
And he added: “I am part of a government coalition. I want my government coalition to continue governing, and for that, what we have to tell people is what we had to solve, what we could not solve and where we are going”.
Daniel Scioli defends his “legitimate” candidacy
In contrast, after Alberto Fernández’s decision not to run for re-election, daniel scioli was enthusiastic and assured that Peronism must define the internal in “one big orderly STEP”.
“I hope that everything will be resolved in a big, orderly STEP, by mutual agreement and that it will strengthen our space,” stressed the former governor of Buenos Aires.
“The PASOs make us stronger. The PASOs are essential to discuss our future,” Scioli emphasized in the middle of this month in São Paulo, during a fair for supermarkets from around the world.
“My participation in the PASO is legitimate. My past, my history and my experience support me to apply. Then the people will decide,” he remarked in a post on his Facebook account.
Agustín Rossi, with the path “clear” to compete after CFK’s decision
The Chief of Cabinet, Augustine Rossiaffirmed this Tuesday that in the next few days will formally announce his launch as a presidential candidateafter Vice President Cristina Kirchner reiterated that she will not run for another national mandate.
The man from Santa Fe referred to the letter that the former president released on Tuesday, in which he clarified that he will not seek to be a candidate this year, added to the decision of President Alberto Fernández not to run for re-election, which -in his opinion- cleared the way.
“I said that I had set Tuesday as the date (to define), today my decision is much closer to yes, to being a candidate, surely in the next few days I will be formally announcing it,” Rossi said in television statements.
In his opinion, “the best thing that can happen to the Frente de Todos is an open space, wide plural, where those who want to compete can do so.”
“I know that putting together a national list is not an easy thing, but I am going to make the effort to try to be so and be one of the alternatives that can compete in these STEP”, Rossi highlighted.
‘Wado’ by Pedro and Grabois, the references close to Cristina Kirchner
Regarding the possible candidacy Eduardo ‘Wado’ de PedroThe Minister of the Interior was cautious in recent statements and called for “military and going out to discuss the country’s models”, while he remarked that “the candidate will be the last” to define himself.
“The most convenient thing is to maintain unity, have a program, know that what is proposed is going to be done and if that cannot be generated through a consensus, it will have to be resolved through a STEP,” said the national official when analyzing the of the Frente de Todos in view of the elections.
Another candidate is John Graboiswho visited the former president of Uruguay José “Pepe” Mujica on May 14 at his residence in Montevideo and he thanked him for his “warmth and political advice.”
The leader will lead next Friday, May 19, in the Etchart de Ferro State (Avellaneda 1240 of the City of Buenos Aires) his launch act as a presidential candidate under the slogan “Argentina Humana, Juan 23”.
On several occasions, Grabois said that if Vice President Cristina Kirchner or Interior Minister Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro announce that they will be presidential candidates, he will decline their candidacy.
Kicillof called to “reverse the election”
Meanwhile, Axel Kicillofsummoned this Tuesday the leaders of the ruling party to “work and military” to “turn the election in the Province and in the country”.
In this way, the provincial president recognized the complex panorama that the Frente de Todos (FdT) will face in this year’s elections, since he spoke of “turning around” some elections that have not yet been held.
Everything indicates that the words of the provincial president are based on the numbers that the polls that the ruling party is looking at, which would not favor their aspirations.
“To work, to be in the military, to go house by house, school by school, factory by factory, place by place… We are going to reverse the election in the Province and in the country,” Kicillof urged, closing the Plenary of Buenos Aires workers, together with their Minister of Labor and trade unionist, Walter Correa.
Victoria Tolosa Paz thinks of an electoral strategy that “includes all sectors”
In parallel, the Minister of Social Development, Victoria Tolosa Paz, assured that the Frente de Todos expects President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Kirchner to define a electoral strategy that “includes all sectors”.
This was expressed by the national official at the entrance to the Congress of the Justicialista Party, which meets in the Ferro micro-stadium, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito.
“We are waiting for the leadership that is Alberto and Cristina to design a strategy that includes all sectors of the Frente de Todos and express anomalies are the formulas that allow you to embrace the whole diversity of our political front,” he said.
In this line, he appointed the Christian social leader Juan Grabois, the Argentine ambassador in Brazil, Daniel Scioli, and the chief of staff, Agustín Rossi; the three referents of the FdT who have already made clear their intentions to compete within the ruling party.
In this regard, Tolosa Paz highlighted that both the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo de Pedro, as well as the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, and the Governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, did not publicly express their intentions, but affirmed that they will be part of the electoral strategy.
“(It will be necessary to define) which team is going to play in the national orbit; which team is going to play in the Province; who is going to be a participant in that match, who is going to go to the bench; who is going to be the starter or the goalkeeper,” Tolosa said. Peace.
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