The imprint that President Alberto Fernández puts on his local public speeches, in which he exhibits his management and differs from his predecessor Mauricio Macri, plus some surveys that show an advance of the Frente de Todos (FdT) in the face of the elections of Next October, they encourage the Government to be able to “continue with this model”, beyond the fact that the president does not confirm or deny the possibility of going for re-election.
The presidential spokesperson Gabriela Cerruttispoke during the week with Radio Perfil and slipped the possibility that Fernández go for another mandatewhen he said that the candidate will be “the President or those who feel that they can best represent this model and this project.”
“The candidate will be the one who best guarantees the possibility of triumph and the continuity of the current economic, political and social model”Gabriela Cerrutti
“They will be those who have all the conviction and the commitment to do it in the best possible way so that the government that follows has to do with this same model,” the official remarked.
And consulted by Télam, Cerruti said that “the candidate will be the one who best guarantees the possibility of victory” and the continuity of the current “economic, political and social model”.
At another point in that radio interview, the spokesperson pointed out that “Alberto Fernández is leading this country, government management and politics, together with his government team, with Minister (of Economy) Sergio Massa and all his ministers and ministers “.
The poll numbers
Massawith the support of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, appears in a survey by the consulting firm Aresco, Julio Aurelio, as the winner in the general elections, with 29.8% of voting intentions, against 29.5% of the chief Government of Buenos Aires Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
In the event that Fernández decided to go for re-election, the FdT would add 25.4%, against 28.6% of Together for Change (JxC); and the ruling party would be six points below the opposition in a balloting scenario, whether the candidate is the current President or the Minister of Economy.
At the end of last year, Mariel Fornoni’s Management & Fit consultancy had given 29.1% for JxC, 24.7% for FdT and 24% for Milei’s Libertarian Party for the presidential elections.
The spokeswoman clarified to this agency about a possible candidacy of the head of the economic portfolio, in the event that the President gave up going for re-election, in relation to that survey and the special appointment in the interview, which “I probably mentioned Minister Massa because, among other things, we were talking about the economy.”
In the usual Thursday press conference at Casa Rosada, Cerruti also remarked that “what It is very important, it is that next December this political project continues to govern in Argentina”and recalled that “President Fernández said it a thousand times that he is going to do everything in his power to make that happen.”
Cristina in the measurements
Although Fernández de Kirchner announced that she will not be a candidate this year, she was measured by the consultant Solmoirago for the PASO and in that poll the Vice President was the one with the highest voting intention added, with 17.1%, followed by Javier Milei, with 15.6%; Rodríguez Larreta, with 14.2%; and former President Mauricio Macri, with 13.7%.
And a survey carried out at the beginning of this month by Rafael Aragón & Asociados determined that the main problem in the country is inflation and in this specific matter, Fernández de Kirchner, who received 21.7% support, reflected the best able to solve it. against 15.4% for Milei, 15.1% for Rodríguez Larreta and 12.7% for Macri.
also grows “operative outcry” for the candidacy of the Vice Presidentan initiative of the group La Patria es el Otro, made up of about twenty organizations such as Corriente Lealtad, Martín Fierro, Descamisados, Corriente 13 de Abril and the Peronist Social Front, among others, who have displayed posters in recent days with the slogan CFK2023 and that they anticipate a mobilization on March 24.
In addition, it will seek to add to this space the two Central de Trabajadores de Argentina (CTA), the Trade Union Front and the Federal Current of Workers.
Fernández de Kirchner also received the support of several leaders of the cabinet of Governor Axel Kicillof, such as the Minister of Community Development, Andrés Larroque, the Chief of Staff, Martín Insaurralde, and the Minister of Labor, Walter Correa, in addition to other leaders and legislators, who spoke of “breaking the ban” on the former president, after the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice in the so-called “Causa Vialidad”.
The “drag” effect
Precisely in the FdT there are also hopeful in the possible “drag” of votes towards the presidential candidacy based on Axel Kicillof’s intention to vote in the province, beyond the fact that he did not confirm whether he will go for re-election either.
A survey by the consulting firm Proyección, run by Santiago Giorgetta, places the Buenos Aires governor with 36% of voting intentions, against 24.7% for Diego Santilli, 16.1% for José Luis Espert with 16.1% and Romina del Pla with 4.2%.
In the middle of the internal of the FdT, Cerruti denied an alleged anger of the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo ‘Wado’ de Pedrowith the President, because Fernández himself, the Brazilian president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva and human rights organizations did not participate in a meeting last Monday at Casa Rosada.
“I consulted Minister Wado and he told me that he never said anything about all that”, indicated Cerruti in dialogue with journalists accredited in Government House. “How am I going to be angry?” De Pedro responded to Cerruti, according to the spokeswoman, who pointed out that “we are speculating about, until now, a journalistic invention, because in the newspapers it is an off and the minister says that it is not He said none of that.”
Cerruti pointed out that “if the minister has something to say, he will say it,” and said that “and if not, the one who told him will take charge.”
