Accompany the President, discuss politics and build a network of contacts. Without the impulse of the Casa Rosada or the intention of generating a new seal within the Frente de Todos (FdT), thirty leaders of the ruling party who claim the leadership of Alberto Fernández Today, at 6:00 pm, he will participate in a teleconference to discuss “what’s next.” Albertism in zoom mode.
Although the common denominator of these leaders is that none responds to the political leadership of Cristina Kirchner ni de Sergio Massa and although they recognize that the objective is to form a space for interaction to strengthen the leadership of the President, the use of the word “Albertism” is prohibited in the group. They do not want the initiative to be seen as the construction of an internal current in the FdT, which would be in the minority against Kirchnerism.
The truth is that the virtual meeting It is one more step in the process of articulating a space within the ruling party that the President’s political leadership claims. Last month, the group of Buenos Aires Peronism leaders who worked with Fernández for more than twenty years took the first steps, with the Buenos Aires legislator Claudio Ferreño to the head. Those movements generated a stir within the ruling party, given that They met in the midst of tensions between the President and a section of Kirchnerism.
The call bets to become a broader and federal court. Its main organizers are the secretary of the Federal Security Articulation, Gabriel Fuks, and the secretary of Parliamentary Relations, Fernando “Chino” Navarro. Ferreño also extended some of the invitations, which include union leaders, such as Héctor Daer, and leaders of social organizations, such as the secretary general of the Evita Movement, Emilio Persico, and Daniel Menendez, from Barrios de Pie. They took care that among the guests there are no ministers or governors, so as not to give it official convening status.
Mayors
In the list of summoned appear mayors of the conurbano, like Juan Zabaleta (Hurlingham), Gustavo Menéndez (Merlo) and Alberto Barefoot (ituzaingó); the Secretary of Public Works, Martín Gil, mayor of Villa María (Córdoba) in use of license; the deputy Carolina Gaillard (Between rivers); the president of the PJ of Santa Fe, Rubén Pirola, and the Minister of Government of Tucumán, Carolina Vargas Aignasse. The last three have the permission of their respective governors.
Leaders who make up the National Militancy Current, a non-camp Kirchnerism space, which at the national level is led by the Defense Minister, were also invited. Agustín Rossi. Although he does not intervene in the armed albertista, the official was the first to publicly claim the leadership of the President after criticism from Hebe de Bonafini and Julio De Vidoencouraged by the questioning he had made Cristina Kirchner to the act for the celebration of July 9.
“It is not about arming albertismo. It is about discussing politics, something that the government is lacking,” he told THE NATION one of the summoned leaders. The meeting’s agenda includes three topics: external debt, productive economic agreement and the social question. “Alberto is not going to encourage the construction of his own structure, but there are pre-existing structures that need a field of expression,” said another. “It is a network of leaders to defend management. The idea is for Alberto to be more accompanied by the policy to make and execute decisions, “said a third. Everyone tries not to make waves, but everyone is excited that the space continues to grow.
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