Alberto Fernández will not seek re-election; big surprise in Argentina

The decision of President Alberto Fernández to renounce a possible candidacy to be re-elected in the next general elections on October 22 caused a general reaction in the midst of a crisis that has placed the country under an economic, judicial and media war, preventing it from fulfilling its commitments that are key in any government of Peronist origin, at the same time that it forced the definition of dates for the unity alliances of the ruling Frente de Todos (FDT) which, like the right-wing and far-right political opposition, has internal elections that were not being held. surpassing.

The president assured in a video that he will deliver the presidential sash on December 10 and will work so that be a partner or partner of our political space y with the certainty of not having taken a single measure against our people.

Fernández assured that the decision had already been made a long time ago and he went ahead to concentrate his forces on solving the problems of the Argentines, in addition to allowing time for the election of candidates who guarantee that the right will not return to bring us its nightmare and its darkness.

However, he did not discuss it with Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner or, apparently, with his Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, with whom he was meeting, supposedly given the seriousness of the business measures of the local economic power, which made the dollar skyrocket. blue (clandestine) to 445, which immediately leads merchants to increase prices with respect to said price and not to the official dollar, causing the rise in prices, food and other values ​​that leads a greater number of Argentines to border the limits of poverty and indigence.

There is social tension and a strong rejection by the Peronist unionists, who have a number of aggravated claims these days due to the open interference of the United States and its diplomatic representative Marc Stanley.

High-level visitors included the leader of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Christopher Hanson, who toured Atucha, the Bariloche Atomic Center. A delegation of Democratic and Republican senators also came. In recent days, General Laura Richardson, head of the Southern Command fleet, who has visited the country before, after mentioning interests in Argentina’s key natural resources, was present.

The visits of senior US officials, since the last meeting of the Argentine president with his counterpart, Joe Biden, at the end of last March, and the pressure to disregard all trade agreements with China and Russia, which were activating hydroelectric plants and other powerful works were also criticized, as well as inflation and other issues that affected sovereignty.

The comparison with the speech, continuity and extension of the agreements signed with China by the president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, openly exposed the differences with Argentina de Fernández.

During his visit to the Asian giant, Lula denounced the pressure from the United States with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the Argentine government to pay the interest on an illegal debt of 45 billion dollars contracted by former President Mauricio Macri, money escaped from the country, whose interest is charging Argentina today. The same IMF, which violated its own rules by lending that money to help Macri get re-elected in 2019, now lends him millions to pay the interest, with which the country became more indebted.

This afternoon a meeting of leaders of the Frente de Todos was held, which neither Alberto Fernández nor the vice president attended, and the date of May 16 was decided for the Congress where the candidates who would go to the Simultaneous Open Primaries and Mandatory, where each party will expose the candidates to the popular vote, which will allow to end internal and reassure the militants.