“Desperate” requests for unity and scenarios of rupture: tension grows on the Front of All

In a climate of fracture and interrupted dialogue between Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner, tension within the Frente de Todos grows every week after the approval of the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Congress. Referents of space differentiate themselves with messages towards the coalition with “desperate” requests for dialogue and unity, while other voices prefer to question attitudes on one side and on the other that lead the political armed to a stage of rupture.

In his morning editorial, the social leader Luis D'Elia called for the unity of the Frente de Todos and warned that if Alberto Fernández “had to leave the government badly and early, the first one injured is Cristina” Kirchner.

“I ask Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to look for the way, the way to meet, to listen to each other and to reunite with wisdom and intelligence, with tact. Identifying the seriousness of the hour,” said the Miles party benchmark in his radio program on Radio Rebelde. “If Alberto Fernández went badly and had to leave the Government early, the first one injured is Cristina. They'll come for you, Cristina, with everything. In a ruthless way they will persecute you and your little children, but above all you. The hatred of the oligarchy is immense,” he said.

“Perón said that repeating what they say is propaganda to the enemy. That's why we don't talk about inflation, let them talk; let's not hit Alberto, let them hit him, it's an almost desperate call, if this doesn't calm down many things will go backwards,” he said.

Other voices spoken were the leader of the Evita Movement and Secretary for Parliamentary Relations of Chief of Staff, Fernando “Chino” Navarro, who argued about the “shame of others” generated by the level of disputes in the Front of All and outlined as a “possibility” a break between the different sectors of the officialism.

“I want to believe, because I have known Cristina and Alberto since 2000, that it will prevail, because of history, commitment, responsibility, and because both chose politics, reasonableness and wisdom, beyond the anger and bills that have been passed,” the official, who has a higher affinity with the sector represented by “albertism”.

From Kirchnerism, National Senator Juliana Di Tullio remarked her critical look at the progress of Alberto Fernández's government and stated that “now it seems that there is only one sector of the Frente de Todos coalition governing”, hinting that the President's vision prevailed in the guidelines emanating from the Executive Branch.

“There is a big difference in how conflicts are confronted and what are the legal instruments to carry them forward,” said the legislator who abbreviates in the sector who responds politically to the vice president on FM Nacional Rock. “The strategy to win a Macri candidate is the people as a whole and is to deliver on what you promised people,” he said. Despite these points, Di Tullio remarked: “If the President decides to right the ship and summons me, I am ready to stand back to back.”

Attorney Graciana Peñafort, who is closely trusted by Cristina Kirchner, lowered the tone of the internal dispute and called it a “somewhat normal debate”. “We have to sit down and rediscuss consensus within the front. If we don't find a path, we have a right-wing space that is waiting to take power,” said La Red the Senate's Director-General of Legal Affairs, who represents the vice-president as a complainant lawyer in the cause investigating the destruction and vandalism of her office in the upper house.

From an intermediate position - due to his years of activism in support of Christianity and his closeness to Alberto Fernández - the former Minister of Defense, Agustín Rossi considered that the level of internal tension generated by the agreement with the IMF “does not seem reasonable” to him, even if it is one of the “important” issues that management must go through.

“The Frente de Todos has a number of objectives yet to be met. We have to lower inflation, improve levels of poverty and destitution, and everything that was contained in our electoral contract when the front ran,” said the Santa Fe leader, who called for “putting in a capsule” (sic) the crosses and differences generated in the last month.

“What the Front of All would have to do is look forward and down, stop looking at us. To the future and see how we improve our people's lives”, concluded the “goat” Rossi.

For her part, the former Minister of Security and current president of the White Helmets, Sabina Frederic, agreed that “the dialogue between Alberto Fernandez and Cristina Kirchner can be restored” and said optimistically that “it will happen”. From his perspective, it appears as a priority to “start a stage of debate and dialogue in the Front of All” and that it can be “institutionalized”, after the tension that began to be expressed last year with the defeat suffered in the PASOS.

“We all work to form the Front of All,” said the official linked to “Albertism”.

In this context of statements by official voices and public exhorts, Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner are still without talk to each other. Neither of us wants to engage in communication. In the coalition, those who consider it still feasible to seal peace understand that the only way to do so is through an agreement between the President and the Vice-President. “Chino” Navarro is one of the benchmarks that seek to bring positions closer together, according to Infobae. Nobody wants to break the coalition, but there are still no concrete signs of recomposition.

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