Argentina Alberto Fernández, a president with a tendency to political suicide
The hard-line Kirchnerist sector, the closest to Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, resigned this Wednesday from several of their positions in the Alberto Fernández government, in the first weighty consequence after the historic defeat of Peronism in last Sunday's primary elections. .
The method was the "making available" of the position, and the media show was initiated by
Eduardo De Pedro,
Minister of the Interior, who spread his letter of resignation to the head of state.
According to local media, after De Pedro, four ministers resigned -
Justice, Science and Technology, Environment and Housing
- as well as the heads of the National Administration of Social Security and insurance of Pensioners' health, organizations that manage two of the largest budgets in the country.
The president of the state-owned Aerolineas Argentinas also resigned.
Several of these senior officials are part of
"La Cámpora",
the radical wing of Kirchnerism, a sector that responds seamlessly to the vice president.
Fernández and Fernández de Kirchner held a meeting of more than three hours on Wednesday to analyze the results of the elections, in which Peronism was
defeated in 17 of the 24 districts of the country,
including the emblematic province of Buenos Aires, and obtained barely a third of the total votes.
The result implied an impact of proportions for Peronism, which fears losing by an even greater difference in the November 14 elections, which will renew half of the Chamber of Deputies and a third of the Senate.
The newspaper 'Clarín' highlighted the
"fracture of the government"
and the fact that Kirchnerism has decided to "empty the cabinet of ministers" from the president.
So far, there has been no reaction from President Fernández, who is being pressured by his vice president to remove himself from the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, and the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán.
Fernández, who a little more than two years ago was surprisingly elected by the current vice president as the presidential candidate of Peronism, is reluctant to get rid of those ministers.
That
tension at the top of power
erupted this Wednesday with the departure of the ministers closest to the two-time president, who has remained silent in public since the electoral defeat.
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