CFK calls to continue with the FdT alliance in 2023

ARGENTINA - In Brief 21 Jun 2022 by Esteban Fernández Medrano

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In our last report[1], we interpreted the public reunion between President Alberto Fernández (AF) and Vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kircher (CFK), during the YPF centenary celebrations, earlier this month, as some sort of mutually convenient truce between them. While not representing a true reconciliation, it suggested an attempt to avoid starting prematurely a self-damaging political race inside the FdT coalition, ahead of the 2023 primaries. While the underlying political discussion of who is going to be the presidential candidate which CFK will support in 2023 is still open today (though most likely not AF), CFK´s speech yesterday, during the national holidays of “Flag Day”, gave some insight on what to expect from the current tense truce and her political objectives for 2023. For a starter, the vice president used her public appearances at the CTA, a left-leaning labor union that competes with the more traditional (and Peronist) GCT, not only to give her view on political history to recent events but also, as she does often lately, to tell the public what she expects from the president and his cabinet, almost as if she were an external observer. The fact that she continues to give such “expectations or recommendations” publicly, reaffirms the general perception that her communication with the president is poor at best. Or at least, it emphasized that CFK wants to make her differences with her “dolphin AF” to be publicly known, in particular to her voters. CFK´s public discussion forced President Alberto Fernández to give a quick response today, during an official launch of the “III World Forum on Human Rights”, to be held in Argentina in 2023. The fact that ...