The different currents that make up the Frente de Todos (FdT) will hold the first meeting of a “political table” convened by President Alberto Fernándezwho in turn is head of the PJ, to define the electoral strategy of the pro-government coalition and agree on internal rules for participation in the PASO scheduled for August.
The headquarters of the national PJ of the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Balvanera -Matheu 130- will be the epicenter from 7:00 p.m. of the FdT summit that will officiate as initial kick to begin to define the strategythe internal regulations and the program with the proposals for a next Government, despite the fact that there are still several unknowns regarding the participants of the meeting and the agenda.
Since the call made by Twitter last Sunday 5the President advanced with several meetings with Peronist governors; Buenos Aires mayors; the Minister of Economy and referent of the Renovation Front, Sergio Massa; the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” De Pedro, representative in that conversation of the sector of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and with the assistant secretary of Truck Drivers and triumvirate of the CGT Pablo Moyano; to bring positions closer together and discuss the future of the FdT.
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In the antechamber of the summit, Fernández held a meeting with Massa and then with the Buenos Aires mayors Alberto Descalzo (Ituzaingó), Juan José Mussi (Berazategui) and Juan Zabaleta (Hurlingham).among others.
From The leadership of the PJ is working against the clock so that the greatest number of representative leaders of each space of the coalition attendwhich will have five referents per sector.
Those who have this mission are the Deputy Chief of Staff, Juan Manuel Olmos; Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero and the new Chief of Staff, Agustín Rossi.
For Kirchnerism, the only confirmed one is De Pedro, while the vice president and the deputy and head of the Buenos Aires PJ, Máximo Kirchner, have already announced that they will not attend the meeting.
While, Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof confirmed that he will be from the game. “The idea is to work in coordination so that the FdT is the best electoral option for this year,” said sources from the Government of the province of Buenos Aires.
The other sector that makes up the third most relevant political leg of the FdT is the Renewal Front, which “has not yet defined whether Massa will participate,” according to sources close to the head of the Palace of Finance.
In this regard, the Buenos Aires Minister of Transportation and Massista leader Jorge D’onofrio maintained that “Sergio’s will is for us to participate actively” and also considered that “it is very healthy that the FdT has a political table where we can begin to debate some issues.”
From the trade unionism close to the Government, The general secretary of SMATA, Ricardo Pignanelli, announced that they will be part of the rally.
“We all have to pull the same car, beyond the fact that in PASO there are two or three formulas,” said Pignanelli, who quoted the Justicialist maxim “He who wins, leads and he who loses, accompanies.”
On the part of the governors, some of whom shared a dinner with the President last Monday in Olivos, the names of the representatives who will make up the table are still kept secret, although Ricardo Quintela from La Rioja anticipated that he will not join because “they are going to there will be representatives of the three sectors and then there will be a meeting with representatives of the territory and other sectors”.
“We have to make the necessary effort to achieve the unity of the FdT,” said Quintela, a maxim supported by all sectors of the ruling party, including the CGT, the CTA, the social movements and other parties that make up the front.
The axes of the meeting
Another slogan common to all spaces is that it is not yet time to talk about candidacies for any position because “it is missing and we must focus on management.”
One of the items that can generate more rispideces is the Kirchnerism proposal that the political table rule on what they consider a “proscription” of the vice president after the judicial ruling condemning the case of public works in Santa Cruz.
In turn, the Renovation Front will raise its voice so that the coalition avoids “shooting itself in the feet” with public disputes that could harm “the management” that Massa faced with the main objective of lowering inflation.
In addition, on the agenda of the first meeting is the objective of starting the discussion to agree on rules for participation in the PASO, the main point of debate being the percentage of the floor that a list must obtain to obtain representation by the minority and force to insert candidates with the majority payroll, something unusual in the history of Peronism.
The historical floor of the PJ was established at 25 percent of the votes, which is why some minority sectors are demanding that this bar be lowered in order to have a better chance of obtaining a place for the minority in the lists for legislators or councillors, in the case if there is STEP.
Undoubtedly, this particularity does not include the executive positions because there the victory is obtained by one vote in the event that there is a dispute in the PASO.
At this point another debate opens within the FdT and it is whether competition is enabled at the municipal and provincial level in districts where the ruling coalition governs, a request from various sectors such as the Evita Movement and La Cámpora who want to dispute power in the municipalities of the Buenos Aires suburbs and other provinces.
There is also the possibility that an agreement is reached between the parties and there is a unity formula, which today is far away, but nothing is impossible in the PJ world, where the talks are just beginning.
