PICHETTO against Kirchnerism after the electoral result / Argentina News

The Auditor General of the Nation and leader of Together for Change, Miguel Ángel Pichetto, affirmed that “hard Kirchnerism is becoming a metropolitan party in the Greater Buenos Aires, after losing the legislative elections at the national level.

“Hard Kirchnerism is becoming a metropolitan party in the suburbs. Without a doubt, the most important population center in Argentina, where there are almost 12 million Argentines, but I think they have been reduced to that,” Pichetto pointed out.

Speaking to the Nueva Normalidad program, led by journalist Lucas Morando on Rivadavia radio, the leader of Together for Change completed: “The other results are the task of the governors in defense of their own territory.”

“Kirchnerism has understood the magnitude of the result. The vice president (Cristina Kirchner) has remained silent, knowing that it is a scenario of defeat. The gesture also of the son (Máximo Kirchner) on Sunday clearly marks that they have understood the magnitude of the result “, he stressed.

“An imaginary world”

In this context, the Auditor General of the Nation affirmed that “the elections left an imaginary world, to build a story that the one who loses wins.”

“It seems to me a whole world of nonsense. The absurdity is the Plaza de Mayo, it had been prepared and diagrammed for 10 days. It had to do with the visualization of what happened, that they were going to lose the election. It was an act of defense of the President, “he said.

Regarding the act for the Day of the Militant, which took place last Wednesday, he questioned: “The Cámpora stayed on July 9, they never arrived. It is a very important symbolic thing, because it denotes a deep fissure within the Government.” .

“Fernández speaking to the unions and social movements meant that there are important dissidents in the internal plane of the Government,” he said.

Finally, he considered that the message that the head of state recorded on the day of the elections to call the opposition to dialogue was “measured and quite logical in terms of the defeat suffered”, but “after a while he made a speech where he said that they won. “.

The end of Kirchnerism?

The result of the Sunday elections it continues to generate analysis and reactions abroad, particularly in influential circles in international political and economic circles.

The Financial Times newspaper considered in an editorial that the “beating” the government received could be an “opportunity” for Argentina to escape its “constant history of failed promises.”

Another British medium, The EconomistAlso in the editorial column “Bello” in the Americas section, he wonders if the electoral defeat will favor the moderation of the Alberto Fernández government while highlighting “the ambiguities of Peronism.”

The magazine is surprised by Sunday’s presidential call for a “victory celebration” that took place yesterday, after the opposition from Together for Change was imposed at the national level by 42 to 34% of Peronism. But it was not the only paradox, he points out. Another is that although the defeat anticipates two difficult years for the Fernández government, it can also make it easier for it to make “some tough decisions, such as reaching an agreement with the IMF.”

The editorial reviews the composition of the government: a president “who considers himself a social democrat and rules in a loveless political marriage with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner“, which he defines as a” leftist populist who in 2019 offered him to head the presidential formula. ”

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will lose control of the quorum in the Senate.

“The big loser”

The Economist considers the vice president “the big loser” on Sunday: Peronism lost control of the Senate for the first time since 1983 and while it remains the main party in Congress, it can no longer dictate the agenda. In addition, he highlights, “humiliatingly, Peronism came third in Santa Cruz, the adoptive province of Cristina Kirchner in Patagonia,” for a long time a family fiefdom. ”

In fact, the editorial states that “the election may mark the beginning of the end of Kirchnerism“, which he defines as a” politically ductile, but economically intransigent “group that became the dominant force in Peronism.”

So far, the editorial continues, Cristina aborted the inclination of Alberto Fernandez to be agreed with the Fund, about to attribute the official defeat in the PASO to the fact that the Government had not spent enough on aid and subsidies.

Between one election and another, the government channeled money to the Buenos Aires suburbs, where one in four Argentines live, and a survey found that those who received help tended to vote for Peronism. In this way, Peronism recovered 460,000 votes, but still lost 2 million compared to 2019, so the opposition won the province of Buenos Aires, but by a narrow margin.

The magazine affirms that this relationship with poor voters has been a Peronist practice since Eva Perón, but that the margin to do so narrowed, since 17 million people (four out of ten) depend on the State for their income, aid, pension or public employment, which results in a persistent fiscal deficit that, since the IMF suspended its credit in 2019, “has been financed primarily by printing money and fueling inflation.”

But now, the editorial says, unless the government negotiates a new loan, it must pay the Fund. USD 21,000 million in the next 13 months, which confronts him with a tough choice: to defaulting, triggering a new weight loss, or agreeing. In this regard, he recalls that the president said, in his recorded speech on Sunday night, that “it is time to solve the problem” and announced that he sent an economic program to Congress in December, “something that he had previously considered unnecessary.”

The Fernándezes in the last public act in which they agreed, before the elections.

According to The Economist, the IMF is likely to accept a “less than rigorous” program, but which must include some deficit reduction, something that until now has been anathema to Cristina Kirchner, although the president stressed that the proposal that he will send to Congress has “in full support” of the official coalition. In this regard, the English magazine quotes the political scientist Sergio Berensztein, who points out that Cristina still has “influence and veto power.”

The editorial recalls that in 2001 a non-Peronist government he was overthrown after wanting to impose austerity and lose a legislative election. The Peronists, he says, still control the street and probably want to continue shooting like this until 2023. The problem, he concludes, is that “they do not have a project for the future, and that is the biggest problem in Argentina.”