Argentina: Cristina Kirchner Continues to “Play a Part†for Macri
Cristina Kirchner, never one to step away gracefully, is now embroiled in a bitter struggle with her former Peronist allies for leadership of the opposition.
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By Marcelo Duclos Last Updated Nov 20, 2018
Cristina Kirchner has now taken aim at Argentina’s republican form of government (Twitter).
Recently, the government of Mauricio Macri received an important warning. The divided opposition, from which he has benefited since assuming power in December 2015, showed some common sense and were able to win an important victory. All the Peronist factions, including Kirchnerism, Massism and the provincial governors, combined forces and managed to take away from Cambiemos a key position in the Council of Magistrates of the Nation. The body, which is in charge of appointing and overseeing justices of the judicial branch, will now be under the sway of Peronism.
Until last week, the key power players in the Cambiemos entourage were led by the Cordoba deputy, also affiliated with the Radical Civil Union Party (URC), Mario Negri and the Macrista deputy Pablo Tonelli. The Peronist unity hemmed in the UCR, and key player Tonelli gravitated towards the company of the Massista Graciela Camaño and the Kirchnerista Eduardo Wado de Pedro.
One year after the elections, the Peronist machinations began to greatly complicate Macri’s political manouverings. Macri explicitly saw the damage that Peronist unity could do to his dream of re-election. However, the panic was only short-lived.
Read more at: https://panampost.com/marcelo-duclos/2018/11/20/argentina-cristina-kirchner-continues-to-play-a-part-for-macri/
Peronist allies, pretty amazing we'd still be hearing about this and as for her, I thought, she was involved in a scandal that would have sidelined her. A situatioin to study up on more.
