• Argentina Cristina Kirchner puts Alberto Fenández on the ropes by removing his loyalists from the government

  • Argentina Alberto Fernández, a president with a tendency to political suicide

After several days of silence, Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner made a furious entry on the scene this Thursday night to publicly challenge President Alberto Fernández and deepen the political soap opera that has kept Argentines in suspense since the overwhelming defeat of Peronism in Sunday's primaries.

The final paragraph of the long letter is a full-fledged summons to the head of state, who according to the description of the events of the number two of the government

ignores his requests and advice.

The anger of the widow of President Néstor Kirchner passes, everything seems to indicate, by her impotence before a Fernández who dominates less than she would like. And then he decided to whitewash the situation and put the cards on the table.

"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 ...

but above all, taking his words and beliefs too, which is more important than anything: to honor the will of the Argentine people. "

The two-time president elected Fernández as a candidate for president in May 2019 and reserved second place in the formula for herself. The disagreements between the two since the inauguration in December 2019 were between suspected and obvious, but the events of this week turned the situation black on white:

Fernández de Kirchner forced his loyalists in the government,

including seven ministers,

to submit their resignation.

and left Fernández in a difficult situation. In the letter explain why.

"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. "


"In the first 18 meetings, the last of them on 09/07/2021, I always raised with the president what for me constituted a delicate social situation and which resulted, among other things, in salary arrears, lack of price control -especially in food and medicine- and lack of work, without ignoring, obviously, the impact of the two pandemics: the macrista first and the sanitary one 99 days after taking office. I also always stressed the lack of effectiveness in different areas of government ".

Cristina's public letter came after

two milestones in the scandal in which Peronism is stirring.

First, an audio of the ultrakirchnerista deputy

Fernanda Vallejos was known

in which she described the president as "squatter", "sick", "mequetrefe", "blind" and "deaf", as a "clown" to his chief of staff and as " useless manga "to the high positions of Fernández in general.

"This man has no merit, he is thanks to Cristina, who is the representation of the voice of the Argentine people," added the deputy in the eleven and a half minute audio that shook the news signals.

At that point, Fernández had been silent for a whole day, without reacting to the vice president's challenge.

The media

boiled in speculation

while it was known that the president was giving up his trip to Mexico for the Celac Summit and to New York to speak before the United Nations general assembly.

Finally, Fernández spoke.

First, he did it on Twitter: "I have heard from my people

. Highness and arrogance do not nest in me.

The government's management will continue to develop in the way that I deem appropriate. That is why I was chosen."

And then spread, with more sincerity, told the newspaper

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, in which he used as a

speaker for his vice will listen: "She knows me

. He knows that good to me take anything

with pressure, not me they are going to force. "

"Time to time. He who hurries is wrong," added the president.

Shortly after, the former president made it clear to her that she will not have the time she is taking to decide what to do with the resigning ministers and with her government in general.

Fernández de Kirchner made evident his deep anger at the defeat in the primary elections, in which Peronism

fell in 17 of the 24 districts of the country

and was nine points behind the opposition coalition Together for Change.

"I also pointed out that I believed that a wrong fiscal adjustment policy was being carried out that was having a negative impact on economic activity and, therefore, on society as a whole and that, undoubtedly, this was going to have electoral consequences. No I said it once ... I got tired of saying it ... and not only to the President of the Nation. The answer was always that it was not like that, that I was wrong and that, according to the polls, we were going to win "very well "The elections. My answer, invariably, was

'I don't read polls ... I read economics and politics and I try to see reality.'

"However now, the day after such a political catastrophe, one listened to some officials and it seemed that nothing had happened in this country, feigning normality and, above all, screwing on the armchairs. Do you really think that it is not necessary,

After such a defeat,

publicly present the resignations and let it be known the attitude of the officials to facilitate the President's reorganization of his government? ".

Late Thursday night in Buenos Aires, Fernández had not reacted to his vice president's tirade, which included a sharp attack on the presidential spokesman,

Juan Pablo Biondi,

perhaps Fernández's most trusted man.


"Regarding the category of civil servants who do not work ... the presidential spokesman would escape that classification. It is a rare case:

a presidential spokesman whose voice nobody knows.

Or does he have some other function that we do not know? to do operations in off for example? True mystery ".

The harshness and unusual sincerity of the second state authority, in open defiance and disagreement with the president, received strong criticism in an Argentina that accumulates

114,000 deaths from the covid-19 pandemic,

an annual inflation of more than 50 percent and a The poverty rate is around 45. There were, however, staunch Cristinistas who celebrated the letter and that the former president finally "stood up" to the man for whom she opened the way to the presidency.

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