The 13A (for the thirteenth of April), next stop of the operative cry “Cristina 2023”. This is how different sectors of the broad Kirchner universe have defined it. On Thursday of next week, a crowd is expected to gather in front of the Palace of Justice, where two slogans will be displayed that feed off each other: some will focus on denouncing the proscriptive nature of the judicial sentence that weighs on the Vice President of the Nation, while others they will insist with the request for Cristina Kirchner to review her decision and decide to compete for a third presidency.
Why 13A? “That day marks the seventh anniversary of the popular demonstration of support for the two-time president of the Nation persecuted by the judicial mafia,” said the Buenos Aires PJ in a text that was voted a few days ago. Led by Máximo Kirchner, and with the endorsement of a large part of the mayors of the suburbs, Peronism offered to coordinate the participation of other sectors of the ruling party, to come together in a single march, which would be to the Palace of Justice.
On April 13, 2016, Cristina Kirchner appeared in the federal courts of Comodoro Py, summoned by Judge Claudio Bonadio in the “future dollar” case, for which she was dismissed in 2021. Thousands of protesters in the rain came to listen the speech of the one who had left the presidency of the Nation four months before. “First of all I want everyone to be calm. They can quote me twenty more times. They can put me in jail, but they can’t shut me up, ”she said that time.
Although Buenos Aires Peronism calls for a march in support of Cristina Kirchner in the face of what is considered “judicial persecution” once morest her, other groups have made explicit their desire that the vice president be the candidate of the Frente de Todos and they hope to expose it on 13A.
The pro-government radical, Leopoldo Moreau, is among these: “I believe that what Argentina is needing is not a candidate for president, not even from our own political force. What he needs is a statesman because whoever takes the reins of government from now on has a gigantic task,” Moreau said. He finished off his opinion with a position that leaves no doubt: “I am going to insist until the last minute on the need for Cristina (Kirchner) to be a candidate, because she is more than this, she is a statesman. And that is what Argentina needs to rebuild the democratic pact that macrismo broke in 2015 ″, he argued. From the leadership of La Cámpora, for example, no one until now has spoken with such emphasis in favor of the candidacy of Cristina Kirchner, despite the fact that she is recognized as an undisputed leader.
Moreau also called for a march on 13A in repudiation of the judiciary, which, like Cristina Kirchner, he identifies as “the Judicial Party.”
Within trade unionism there are voices that think like Moreau: Cristina should be the presidential candidate of the Frente de Todos. This has been expressed, for example, by Sergio Palazzo and Hugo Yasky, two national deputies of union extraction.
The also union leader and Buenos Aires Minister of Labor, Walter Correa, joined the operative outcry. “We must listen to our people and the organized workers propose that the Frente de Todos (FdT) should attend the elections with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as a candidate for president and with the governor of the province of Buenos Aires Axel Kicillof,” he proposed. . He defined them as the “natural candidates of space.”
The call to 13A unifies all of Kirchnerism behind the denunciation of “proscription” for the woman sentenced to six years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office. “Democracy or judicial mafia” is the motto of the call.
From Casa Rosada, with different nuances, ministers and officials demonstrated once morest the conditions imposed by the judicial sentence on Cristina Kirchner. President Alberto Fernández prefers to pronounce himself “for the innocence” of the vice president and criticized both the sentence and the previous procedural instances. Security Minister Aníbal Fernández, on the other hand, says that Cristina Kirchner can perfectly present herself as a candidate.
From the other side of the ruling party, Wado de Pedro, also a national minister, has just challenged President Alberto Fernández to define the presidential candidacy in the PASO. La Cámpora has not yet resolved to make any candidacy for president official, even when De Pedro carries out actions similar to those of a leader in the campaign.
The 13A will mark another chapter of the operative cry “Cristina 2023″. The deadline for registering the candidacies expires on June 24. Alberto Fernández says that there is a lack of time to make decisions and that he works so that the Frente de Todos wins. The game is so open that on Friday the Minister of Public Works, Gabriel Katopodis, a loyalist to President Fernández, built a bridge to Kirchnerism: “I work for unity and not for the inmates, so that Alberto and Cristina come to an agreement and not for them to face each other, and I’m sure that’s the way,” he said. For him, there is still time to reach “a unique formula.”
