The President of the Buenos Aires PJ, Maximo Kirchnerspoke this Sunday about the provincial party elections, originally scheduled for December, estimating that they will take place between February and March. When asked if he was a candidate to renew his position, He avoided offering certainties and targeted those who showed “desperation.” “Be a candidate for something and not give the discussion”.
Máximo Kirchner called a meeting of the party council for Friday, December 19th at 2 p.m. in the municipality of Malvinas Argentinas. The call to the party body comes under pressure from a section of Peronism, to which Governor Axel Kicillof refers, which seeks a renewal of power; as Kirchner’s mandate would end on December 18 of this year.
“We are convening the council next Friday to discuss what date and so that those who want to lead the party can introduce themselves and say what project they want for the country,” Kirchner said in a dialogue with AM530.
When asked about his possible candidacy for further leadership of the provincial PJ, he replied: “I don’t see the nominal terms in thiswhat we see isto the nominal desperation of some to be candidates for something and not take part in the discussion“.
The elections to renew the party leadership should take place this month, i.e. before the end of 2025; However, Máximo stated that the change “was discussed after the vote in September and October,” referring to the legislative elections in the province of Buenos Aires and at the national level. “To hold an election in December and mobilize three times, no one was willing to do that,” he noted.
In this sense, he speculated about a possible date for the internal elections: “I estimate that in February, March, as determined by the council”.
With a view to the federal election in October, in which the state government won with a large share of the vote, Kirchner said: “We were clear that they would have more parliamentarians at the end of the election.”
In this sense, he referred to the fact that La Libertad Avanza is now the bloc with the largest number of representatives in Congress, saying: “They became the first minority, something related to certain behaviors within Kirchnerism and not so much with a good election result.”
“It wasn’t a bad election result, but Without leaks in our block, they would not have become the first minorityHe added, warning: “It is very difficult for a government in its first term to lose the midterm elections.”
Likewise, he considered that the PJ “is a party that was hit because the leader of the party (Cristina Kirchner) was imprisoned a few months ago,” explaining that this was a “disciplinary effect.”
“It seems that they are succeeding in the task of discipline. “So you see that a bloc that had to be the first minority in the Chamber of Deputies ends up not doing so because it sees the situation that a former president goes through and ends up withdrawing its deputies from the bloc to practice provincialism when the country falls,” he noted.
In this regard, he said that on Friday he visited his mother at 1111 San Jose, where he is under house arrest, and regretted that “for some inexplicable reason they have severely limited their visits.” “It seems annoying that more and more people came to talk to her, executives, business experts,” he noted.
“How can it be that when a genocide is sung about with Palito Ortega, the media says nothing, but when eight economists visit a former president, the world collapses? He is a person who works, who thinks about the best for Argentines, he tries to collaborate, to work,” he said.
“Cristina mobilizes and is listened to by herself and others. Cristina’s word has a weight in society that goes beyond that of those who vote for her. Even those who do not vote for her listen to her when it comes to how the economy and society work,” said Máximo.
And without naming names, he said that “some won’t see it because they know they’ll have to debate it when they go.” He also noted: “She’s locked up and people keep saying she has to escape. There are really very few ideas.”
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