CFK spoke after the government rejected the Supreme Court ruling

ARGENTINA - In Brief 27 Dec 2022 by Esteban Fernández Medrano

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Tuesday afternoon, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) participated, with the background of the latest dispute of the government with the Supreme Court, in the inauguration of a sports facility in Avellaneda (a district of the Greater Buenos Aires area), accompanied by the governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kiciloff, and current Mayor of Avellaneda, Jorge Ferraresi (until October the National Minister of Territorial Development and Habitat): two thoroughbred Kirchnerists. After introductions by Kicillof and Ferraresi, the vice president spoke of her perceptions of Argentina’s political present and future. Her appearance was relevant for two reasons: first, to get a confirmation of her decision not to run next year in any electoral position and second, to get a better understanding of the reasons that drove President Alberto Fernandez (AF) to walk the judicial and institutionally dangerous road of, initially rejecting and now conditioning, a Supreme Court (SC) ruling. Summary of the Supreme Court Ruling Last week the SC ruled in favor of the City of Buenos Aires ordering the national government to temporarily re-establish a significant share of the cuts that the AF administration had implemented to the City of Buenos Aires´ co-participation payments in March 2021. Initially, president Alberto Fernández announced, surrounded by most Peronist governors, and with the emphatic support of Kirchnerist Governor Jorge Capitanich, that such a ruling was impossible to fulfill and represented unjust treatment of the “rich metropolis” at the expense of the poor “hinterland provinces”. Many Kirchnerists also view the rejection of the SC ruling as a “warming up” of what ...