Surprisingly, the head of the Buenos Aires PJ asked the presidents of the parties that make up the Union for the Homeland to endorse Daniel Scioli’s candidacy. The ambassador had made a judicial presentation against the regulations.

In a last-minute move that he agreed with Sergio Massa, the deputy and president of the Buenos Aires PJ Máximo Kirchner gave the order to enable Daniel Scioli’s candidacy. As? He asked his allies from the Kirchnerist parties Nuevo Encuentro, Kolina, Partido de la Victoria and, among others, the Frente Grande, to sign in favor of Ambassador Scioli so that he meets the strict demands that he himself imposed on him. The Renovation Front will do the same.

The meeting between Maximo Kirchner, Martin Sabbatella (Nuevo Encuentro), Mario Secco (Frente Grande) and the head of the AFIP, Carlos Castagnetto (Kolina), took place around four in the afternoon, after the march to the Casa de Jujuy. However, the dissemination of the Solomonic decision was made only after the Sciolist team reported that a presentation had been made for unconstitutionality against the regulations of Union por la Patria.

In the middle there were negotiations and bridges between both sides that are still in force today. “In two months we are all going to have to play together, we are Peronists,” Sciolismo portrayed the situation despite adopting the Christian noun “proscription” as its own.

The plot of entanglements between Scioli and Maximo

After 8:00 p.m. this Wednesday, “Unidos Triunfaremos” shared the document that Anibal Fernandez, as representative of the sector, and the lawyer Manuel Luaces, presented to the Electoral Board of the alliance questioning article 9.

That article required that half of the endorsements of the pre-candidacies come from members of the PJ. And that the rest correspond to members of the Renewing Front, Nuevo Encuentro, the Party for Victory, Kolina and the Big Front.

Sciolismo not only challenged that regulation. In the afternoon he had presented two other lawsuits, one to the party board and the other to the electoral judge Sergio Torres, demanding the places ceded to the minority on the post-PASO lists. Kirchnerism, which has not yet announced its presidential formula, has been gathering endorsements for a while without knowing in whose favor.

Surprisingly at 8:30 p.m., a few minutes after the dissemination of the third Sciolist demand, the president of the PJ, through his spokesmen, made public a photo that was taken in his office together with Sabbatella, Secco and Castagetto, the four of them embracing and smiling. Did the fear of a ruling against you force you to back down? Or was he magnanimous to remove an argument against him from the circumstantial adversary?

It is known: Kirchnerism does not want to repeat the mistake it made when CFK did not agree to compete against Florencio Randazzo in 2017. The poor result of its former minister made him lose that election. Nobody wants Scioli to play outside. He knows it, takes advantage and with a bravery that he did not have in other times, he attacks the former president without fear.

The Kirchnerist explanation was not as friendly as the offer of guarantees to Scicoli. “The lack of political support and the lack of structure, they want to turn it into regulatory persecution. We are not going to let them victimize themselves,” Sabbatella said upon leaving the meeting in Congress. But he clarified that “by signing the endorsements, the members of the Nuevo Encuentro are not endorsing Scioli, they are endorsing the leadership of Maximo Kirchner.”

They also quoted Anıbal Fernandez himself, who in a dialogue with the C5N channel admitted that after a conversation between Kirchner and Victoria Tolosa Paz, 30% was agreed as the floor to integrate lists. And he also recognized that from his list the minutes were signed, in the middle of the negotiation process, blank.

Acts that later did not meet their expectations due to the places assigned to the minority, which is why they later made the judicial presentation. Sciolismo felt disappointed. Kirchnerism questioned the position.

Tension prior to the announcement of formula K

In this tense framework, three days after the closing of the lists, those around Maximo Kirchner stressed that Scioli was unable to obtain guarantees on his own. And they explained why he gave in and helped loosen the party corset.

In parallel, the proposals for a single list and the leonic conditions for the integration of the lists in places with low expectations of entry to legislative positions continue.

“We never prevented them from competing. They only care about the national deputies, not the provincial ones, that’s why they signed and now, since they can’t get guarantees, they victimize themselves,” Kirchnerism came out at the crossroads of the three judicial presentations.

The official communique of the K wing maintains that there was “permanent dialogue” and, with a certain irony, points out that “like Daniel Scioli and Alberto Angel Fernandez they could not gather the necessary guarantees to support the presidential candidacy of the former; Maximo Kirchner, Mario Secco, Carlos Castagnetto, Martin Sabbatella, Ruben Eslaiman and Diana Conti agreed this afternoon to provide said sector with the guarantees required by current regulations to present the different candidacies”.

A Chicana was added to the apparent kindness: “For those who preside over the parties that make up Union for the Homeland, it is extremely strange that someone who aspires to lead the country’s destiny has not obtained the necessary endorsements to go to elections. However, considered that it is even more strange that, even having provided them with these guarantees -without which they could not compete-, Daniel Scioli and Alberto Ángel Fernández have prosecuted the regulation that they voluntarily signed”.