Argentina: agreement with IMF exacerbates crisis within coalition in power

The Péronist President, Alberto Fernandez, and his Vice-Chair, Cristina Fernandez Kirchner, play elbows at the top of the state. The first has passed the debt restructuring plan with the International Monetary Fund, against the notice of the second, opposed to the lowering of the energy subsidy.

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It was a spady, thrown with the meaning of the formula of which she has the secret. “A scarf and a stick [presidential], it is a little bit of [of power],” darted Vice President Argentina, Cristina Fernandez from Kirchner, at a session of Eurolat, an assembly of parliamentarians of The European Union and Latin America, in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, April 13th. “We are talking about power when a person makes a decision and that it is accepted by the whole society. That’s the power,” had just launched the former states of state (2007-2015) . Understanding: President Alberto Fernandez (without relatives) is a puppet. Were signs of reconciliation were expected? With this access of perfidy, the crisis that shakes the coalition of the left center in power is consumed.

The cracks of the Frente de Todos (“Front of all”), formed to dispute the 2019 presidential election, continue to widen, organizing, beyond the personal enmity, around two lines ideological, that of the president – more moderate – and that of the Vice-President. The latter embodies the left wing on their political family, the peronists. It is also Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who, in 2019, carries out this amazing announcement: failing to shrink the Presidency, it takes a step aside, arises in future vice-president and designates the candidate at Casa Rosada The presidential palace: it will be Alberto Fernandez, to the reputation of a man of dialogue. The choice of this refocusing is judicious: if the former states of state has a basis of electors to unshakable fidelity, its figure is much too clevy for raising wider. At the time, everyone wondered: “Cristina” will she shoot the strings in the shadows, or will she leave “Alberto” governing?

a debt that divides
Very discreet at the beginning of the pandemic management – the most brilliant moment of the president who then successfully installs the image of a pedagogical and protective header -, the vice-president narrow his own coalition, in A letter published in October 2020 , denouncing SibyLline” officials who do not work “. Nearly a year later, the primary legislative election rout, in September 2021, still sets internal dissonances. It is again in a letter published on its website that the Vice-Chairperson indicates his requirements. She claims to Alberto Fernandez “to honor” his choice to propose him to the presidency. Part of the government is reworked on 17 September.

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