The conviction in the Roads case operates as the starting point for the political action plan that was drawn up Cristina Kirchner since he decided to take the reins of the Justicialist Party (PJ). That is, order the main opposition force, put it without half measures on the side of the government of Javier Miley -discarding the Peronists who negotiate in Congress- and heading towards the elections in the province of Buenos Aires. For the former president, the flight is forward and it is electoral. In fact, he is already rehearsing a renewed speech that surprises his most staunch followers.
As far as he could know THE NATIONCristina Kirchner will leave it in the hands of her lawyers – and some extremely trusted advisors, such as the Buenos Aires minister Juan Martin Mena– the strategy to defend against Supreme Court and avoid their disqualification. But she will focus her efforts, in the coming months, on putting together the PJ’s electoral offer and attracting possible allies to confront the libertarians at the polls in 2025. As expected, the former president observes a scenario of polarization, binary, in which she moves comfortably.
Cristina Kirchner He considers himself a victim of the federal judges whom he accuses of applying the lawfare against her, but she will not be seen in public appealing to victimization as a way of dealing with the unfavorable ruling of the Criminal Cassation Chamber. On the other hand, Kirchnerism’s strategy consists of showing it supported by the peronismwhose leadership will formally take place on November 17, and accompanied by real people who praise his political figure. She was seen on that train this Wednesday at the Moreno game.
not without emotional swings -On Tuesday she was seen tearing up at the meeting with the leaders of her Homeland First list at the headquarters of the Smata union-, the former president is clear about her direction and so is her environment. The senator Jose Mayansone of those who encouraged her to join the PJ, said in that same party conclave: “We began the path to recover the national government.” The phrase sounded grandiloquent, but it had a charge of intention shared by those present. However, for Cristina, 2027 is too far away and her next goal is set in 2025.
The “battlefield” scenario chosen by the former president will not be the judicial one, but the electoral one. His journey this Wednesday could not have been more eloquent: he did not appear in the federal courts of Commodore Py to hear the ruling of the Court of Cassation and before being confined in the Patria Institutethe house of Kirchnerism, traveled to Moreno – where the Cristinista governs Mariel Fernandez– to visit a hospital and meet women who told her their painful life stories. Almost a campaign activity, typical of someone who sends multiple signals that he will participate in the next elections.
Cristina Kirchner already anticipated that the next party meeting will be in the national headquarters of the PJlocated at 130 Matheu Street, a few blocks from Congress, and which aspires for “comrades from the other list” to join this conclave, alluding to the list headed by the Riojan governor Ricardo Quintela hopefully elusive in the Justicialist Electoral Board. What the former president did not clarify is whether the invitation to the “losers” of the PJ internal party also includes those who she herself pointed out as the “Judas” who supported the Riojan, especially the governor. Axel Kicillof.
Cristina Kirchner at the door of the Patria Institute; behind the head of his custody Daniel CarboneNicolás Suárez
Judging by recent statements by Maximo Kirchnerwho again reproached Kicillof for not speaking out in favor of his mother in the frustrated internal election against Quintela, despite the fact that she always had him “in cotton wool”, for Kirchnerism the challenge is still not resolved, far from it. that the Axelistas planted in the leadership of Cristina at the national level and of Máximo himself in the Buenos Aires PJ. The turmoil is such that the gestures they can make from La Plata to ingratiate themselves are not enough: Kicillof has just ratified his support for the former president and said that the Roads cause is “true legal nonsense.”
Kirchnerism needs another type of unconditionality. An example that made Cristina emotional was given yesterday by the senator from Catamarca Lucia Corpacci. “I fell in love with Peronism again with Néstor (Kirchner). I believe that you are going to achieve it, that you are going to fall in love with Peronism again,” said the legislator whom the former president initially nominated for the leadership of the PJ, although the idea did not prosper, which later led Cristina herself to embody the candidacy to cut off his critics. Among them, Quintela and his old rivals from non-Kirchnerist Peronism.
In Smata, Cristina made a mention of the imminent ruling: “I am very clear why they are persecuting me. In Peronism we are used to it. That, far from intimidating us or making us retreat, makes us stronger,” he warned. He then published a document in which he described “Copitos de Comodoro Py” to the judges of the Cassation and denounced that the “true objective” is his “disqualification from holding public office in perpetuity. That is to say: plain and simple ban for life.” This is precisely what it seeks to challenge. For this reason, he will seek to make his defense electoral.
The militants stood in front of the Instituto Patria with flags of the Justicialista PartyFabián Marelli
The leaders who surrounded her at the Patria Institute had the same impression a few hours after the Cassation ruling was known. There it caught the attention of more than one that the climate was not one of logical pessimism after a judicial conviction of someone they consider their political leader. Even Cristina Kirchner gave a speech of about ten minutes in which she called “recover the efficiency of the State”as if he were projecting his strategy to confront Milei’s libertarians in the electoral field. “It’s a workhorse of theirs, we have to stand up to them,” said one of those present.
“The word efficiency is not only for technocrats, we have to redefine it for Peronism,” Cristina Kirchner explained in her speech. “The main effect of this sentence, methodology or persecution is to discipline the political leadership,” said the former president in her political bunker. And he added: “After all, being imprisoned for having fulfilled your generation, others who are missing, the price they make me pay, after all and looking at what others suffered, is quite little and I am willing to pay it because “They are not going to make me regret absolutely anything.”
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