He Justicialist Party He knew how to be the backbone of the labor movement and guide the destinies of the country for decades. Today, the PJ retains its symbolic value but It no longer has the weight of other years. In part it is due to internal disputes between leaders, which generated a representation crisis on the bases.
Alberto Fernandez He was president of the space during his term and even until February of this year, where he asked for leave under pressure from different sectors of Peronism that demanded that he step aside. The point is that no one took his place. The council today is headed by five vice presidents: Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez, Axel Kicillof, AnalÃa Rach Quiroga, Juan Manzur and LucÃa Corpacci
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For this reason, next Tuesday, May 14, the national council of the Justicialista Party will meet at the historic headquarters of Matheu 130. According to PJ sources, TNthe meeting will revolve around two central topics: defining a internal election date and begin to debate the formation of a Political Action table.
It happens that the current mandates expire only in March 2025 and everything indicates that after the license granted, Fernández will not return to his position. “There would be talk that the next elections could be open. The idea is to be able to bring here those who have left for different reasons,” a leader who knows the internal workings of the PJ told this medium.
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“We have to make common cause. Today the Milei government destroys all the popular rights that are intrinsic to the Peronist doctrine, such as the social issue and work,” noted another reference who is part of the Peronist ranks. “We have to build the political alternative to the government,” agreed from different spaces.
It will not be an easy path for Justicialism, since in a context of economic but also political crisis it must reinvent itself and propose a new social contract with its bases. At the moment, the leadership is indebted to the militancy and not only because of the electoral and management results. The internal discussion shifted the axis and Peronism lost more than the elections and the government.
“Now it comes into play to discuss the renewal of leadership, and organize the political structure, in order to nuclearize the leadership that is dispersed today. We go through a representativeness crisisdue to different factors but above all to the lack of political leadershipâ€remarked someone who was close to Alberto Fernández the last 4 years, but now seeks to make his way.
“This is not the time to divide the waters. That’s playing into Milei’s hands,” another PJ bishop expressed to this medium. And although there are a majority of those who maintain that «it is with everyone», in reality they reissue discourses – and practices – that promote more internal division.
“I’m not going. Because I disagree. They did not ask Alberto Fernández to resign (they gave him leave) and none of the 5 vice-presidencies assumed office. Unusual,” he stated to TN the mayor of Esteban Echeverría, Fernando Gray. The communal chief is one of the most critical voices, who not only asked that the former president leave his position, but also seeks that Máximo Kirchner leave the leadership of the Buenos Aires PJ.
Gray’s case is not isolated. Along with other party leaders, he has been working for some time in a sort of third position within the PJ. Several people at odds with Kirchnerism are grouped there, such as the former mayor of Hurlingham, Juanchi Zabaleta. Both were critical of Cristina Kirchner’s latest public appearances, but they are also not in good harmony with the other emerging figure in Peronism, Axel Kicillof.