Activism took the first step for Cristina Kirchner to be a candidate and asked leaders to take to the streets

After a two-hour plenary where fifteen committees debated and agreed on the same point –that Cristina Kirchner be the presidential candidate of the Frente de Todos in the next elections– Kirchnerism has thus taken the first strong step of an operational clamor that began to ignite at the end of last year and which now seeks to transfer it to the streets with a certain periodicity in the remaining 14 weeks until the closing of the lists.

It was with the so-called table of Ensenada, with leaders of Peronism K from the province of Buenos Aires, that the stormy day of this Saturday materialized, which took place at the headquarters of the UTN in the city ruled by Jorge Ferraresi. Something, management interpreted, had to be done at the judicial outpost against CFK.

La Cámpora, the conglomerate of organizations that make up La Patria es el Otro, the Corriente Federal de Trabajadores, Nuevo Encuentro and several other organizations occupied the space intended for the closing speech which included words from the Governor of Buenos Aires Axel Kicillof and the president of the PJ of Buenos Aires and national deputy, Maxime Kirchner; which was the hottest of the day yesterday.

Before the central act, the plenary had 15 debate commissions. The modality was identical: a table with leaders and officials giving some diagnoses and then an open microphone. “The idea is that activism is expressed,” they explained from the organization. And it happened. There, those who participated in the commissions took the floor and the discursive line was repeated: a disagreement with the current period, a forward demand to the management to make the necessary transformations, to equalize wages and redistribution and, of course , A Candidate Christina as the only way out. All the speeches in the different commissions ended with the song “Cristina presidenta…”

There was also a coincidence in direction. This Saturday was the first of many actions to come. The holding of another plenary in a province or in a city in the interior of Buenos Aires is on the menu. Howevermilitancy asked -in the framework of the commissions- to work to “break Cristina’s ban” from the street. And what decanted from this idea This is the March 24 march.

A few weeks ago, a controversy erupted over the Kirchnerism project to mobilize as part of the Day of Memory for Truth and Justice and to put the legal situation of the vice-president on the agenda. of the procession, Cristina Kirchner. The counterpoint had taken on such volume that the Minister of the Interior -and a member of the HIJOS group- Edward of Peter ended up meeting the president of Abuelas, Stele of Carlotto to reduce the noise. . This sequence, in addition, precipitated the act of this Saturday. Without the 24th, another ephemeral date had to be found to demonstrate the force that brought together thousands of activists in Avellaneda this Saturday. The return of Perón, the slogan Fight and Come Back and the electoral victory of Héctor Cámpora were the meaningful charge with which he was invited to the event this Saturday.

But in activity, militancy flew over Perón’s ban, but focused all his talk on going out on the streets. It was a request for militancy. At the tables some Christian figures such as Leopoldo Moreau, Beloved Boudou, Carlos Zannini, Omar Plaini, Nicolas Kreplak, Therese Garcia, among others. He The bulk of the management only appeared on stage for the closing speeches.

Some The options that began to be considered and which will be discussed in the coming days were, for example, the holding of a federal march in the Plaza de Mayo or the mobilization of the Court, after what were the foundations of the Road Cause that were known this Thursday. “Right now is when Hebe is missing, she would lead the way,” slipped a Buenos Aires leader who was on one of the commissions. He was referring to the leader of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, interpreting that his word would allow without big but that on March 24 he also leaves against the ban of Cristina Kirchner.

“Welcome to the cradle of resistance“, said Ferraresi on stage to welcome. “You have to have in the next government that you have to think before the Fund.” The mayor went to the bone: “In June with Cristina president and in October we break the polls”.

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Later, Kicillof spoke as a dump truck sprayed the activists who, throughout the afternoon, marched from tent to tent. “You can’t do Peronism without Cristina,” Kicillof said in a passage from his speech in which he called for punishing those who attempted Cristina’s life.

“They are not going to twist the arm of a popular government,” said the president of Buenos Aires, recalling the resignation of the former economy minister, Martin Guzman in a timeline that stood out as part of “a campaign they designedagainst the vice president.

Leaders seemed to “hear the message” of activism. Closing his speech, Kicillof said that “the ban is broken with people in the street“, and that “they are not going to condition it”, because “If people want Cristina, it will be Cristina”.

Máximo Kirchner supported part of his speech by criticizing the national government. He said the pension law “approved ten days ago” has yet to be enacted. He also asked again to review the agreement with the Fund, and said that Justice seek to decapitate a political forcein reference to Kirchnerism and the role of his mother.

Kirchner’s speech smelt of election launchhe. “We have huge fights ahead of us and many times I fight and I feel the disappointment gets the better of me, but those are the places that fill my soul.” He asked to continue to generate spaces for participation. He recalled the Frente de Todos assembly in 2019 and positioned Cristina Kirchner as space manager. “She decided well,” Kirchner said of the political course her mother took.

Kirchner did not explicitly say that her mother should be a candidate. As he pointed out this time around, he said, “You have to design the space so that the partner can choose again,” he concluded during the closing. “Let’s hope that by seeing this we can move the fiber a little, I think so,” enthused a provincial official and Kirchnerist leader. Cristina Kirchner He spent his weekend in El Calafate.

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