Buenos Aires, (EFE) a specific candidate.
Accompanied by the main references of her “hard core”, the former president (2007-2015) delivered a speech before thousands of people gathered in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the presidential assumption of her husband, the late Nestor Kirchner (2003-2007).
During his speech, Fernández, who reiterated last week his refusal to run for the elections next October, highlighted the need to make a “qualitative leap” in economic terms, through the articulation of an alliance between the public and private sectors that allows “add value and incorporate technology”.
“When one sees the main economies that have emerged, they are far from the doctrine that they want to impose on us here that the market and the private solve everything (…). This is the discussion that millions of Argentines are waiting for, and not the nonsense that is said every day in the media, ”said the former president amid the uproar of her followers.
Pillars of the program
The vice president took advantage of the act to establish the pillars of the electoral program of Peronism, based on four axes: redefinition of the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), development of the country’s strategic resources, renewal of the “democratic pact” and modification of the Supreme Court of Justice, which he again vehemently attacked.
“Argentines deserve to once again have a Supreme Court that is called as such, without turning red,” said Fernández, involved in a tough fight with the Judiciary, aggravated since a federal court sentenced her, last December, to six years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office for alleged corruption.
In this context, the former president asked to build territorial and sectoral “depth”, in the unions and in the factories, in order to carry out the government program “that Argentina needs” to appease the main problem, today, of the country : income distribution.
“Believe me: to distribute income, many times you have to put an ugly face on those who have a lot. Why do you think they hate me, persecute me, and outlaw me? Because I was never one of them and I will never be, whatever they do, they want to kill me or arrest me. I will never be theirs, I am from the town and from there I will not move, “he exclaimed, to underline that the elaboration of this program” is not the task of one person “, but rather” it is a militant task “.
unknown about the candidate
Expectations were high before the vice president’s speech, the main reference for a Peronism that still does not have powerful candidates in the running, with less than a month to go before the closing of the electoral lists.
In fact, the former president appeared escorted by some of the most “presidential” figures of the ruling party, such as the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo ‘Wado’ de Pedro; the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof; or the Minister of Economy himself, Sergio Massa; but he concluded the speech without exalting any of them.
A speech in which he recognized “differences” with the current president, Alberto Fernández, one of the most notorious absences from the event, given his personal and political closeness to Néstor Kirchner.
“Everyone knows the differences that I have had and that I have and that it is not necessary to explain them, because I have said it (…). Despite the errors, mistakes or differences, this government is infinitely better than another one under Mauricio Macri would have been, I have no doubts,” the vice president clarified, however, who closed her speech by demanding “break what needs to be broken ” to raise an electoral program.
