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During two presidencies and eight years (2007-2015), Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was omnipresent for Argentines based on "national channels", which is how speeches are known in the country that, by law, must be broadcast by all television channels and radios.

Cristina did not stop talking, no one could doubt what Cristina thought and what she wanted.

Everything changed as of 2019, when she became vice president of the nation, institutionally the "number two" of President Alberto Fernández.

Cristina no longer spoke.

Without press conferences, without interviews and with very few speeches, his became the epistolary genre from the presidency of the Senate.

It was in long open letters where it was possible to understand what the head of Peronism thought and wanted.

Those letters and the few speeches he gave since December 2019

grew in intensity and level of irritation,

until on the night of Thursday, September 16, 2021, the door slammed: I was the one who put you in the presidency, Alberto, It's time for you to listen to me

Summary for

a very long letter that contains phrases for astonishment,

unthinkable on the part of a vice president towards the president, much less in public.

But, it is known, the writers of "House of Cards" and "Borgen" get depressed every time they look towards Argentina.

Their scripts had great doses of imagination, but if they really wanted to reach unattainable heights they would have to have hired the Argentine vice president as a consultant.

"When I made the decision, and I do it in the first person singular because it was really like that, of proposing Alberto Fernández as a candidate for president of all Argentines,

I did it with the conviction that it was the best for my country

I only ask the president to honor that decision, "says one of the central paragraphs of the letter that shook the entire country and took the government on its feet.

"As I am not a liar and much less a hypocrite (I never say in public what I do not hold in private and vice versa), I must mention that during the year 2021 I had 19 work meetings in (the presidential residence of) Olivos with the President of the Nation See you there and not at the Casa Rosada at my suggestion and

with the intention of avoiding any kind of speculation

and media operation of institutional wear. "

The letter is

full of criticism and indications

about how Fernández, a great procrastinator of politics, should govern: it usually takes days, weeks and months to make necessary decisions, and this political crisis in which the vice president emptied the government by withdrawing his seniors charges is no exception.

"I am going to order the cabinet and end this discussion," Fernández told the website 'El Uncover' on Friday morning after a long night with his narrower circle in which he analyzed which way to go: the local media agree on that he will seek to temporize,

give up "his own" ministers

in exchange for Cristina giving up some of hers, and try to move on. The first curve on the rugged Argentine highway is that of November 14, when the parliamentary elections will presumably confirm the historic and

extensive defeat

that Peronism suffered in the primaries last Sunday.

There are observers who even believe that the cycle is ending.

"The last creature of Cristina Kirchner is moving towards a premature and self-generated decline,

" the political analyst Claudio Jacquelin pointed out in 'La Nación'.

The departure of the vice president in a whirlwind is closely related to her judicial situation.

Processed in various cases, the fact that the Argentine justice reacts and is activated from the new political winds is a very dangerous fact for Fernández de Kirchner.

It is also for this reason that it desperately seeks to politically reorient the government to avoid being left weak in Parliament.

And while Fernández, the president, decides what he wants to do with the position for which he was voted by 48% of Argentines less than two years ago, another piece of information became evident: the Frente de Todos, the electoral brand of Peronism, is not a coalition, which is what has been proclaimed since 2019. It

exists, and ceases to exist, when Cristina Kirchner decides to do so.

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