In a move that leaves no doubt about who pulls the strings of hardline Kirchnerism, Máximo Kirchner ordered his pawns to come out in a pack to attack the Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillof. The operation was synchronized and followed a unified script: to establish that economic power already has a candidate in Peronism, and that candidate is Kicillof, while the Kirchner surnames are “dangerous” and “proscribed.”
Among those who came out to carry out the order are Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro, Mayra Mendoza, Mariano Recalde, Rodolfo Tailhade, Fernanda Raverta, María Teresa García, Lucía Cámpora, Gabriela Estévez, Julieta Campo, Alejandrina Borgatta, and Juan Modarelli. All of them, in the name of Cristina Kirchner’s firstborn, repeated the same line: there are “dangerous surnames” that the establishment wants to proscribe.
De Pedro railed against the “economic interests” that “within Peronism seem to have a candidate and seek to proscribe the Kirchner surname.” “We know there are no miraculous surnames, but it seems that for some and their privileges, there are dangerous surnames,” he said. In the same vein, Mayra Mendoza stated that “the mafia, through its different branches (judicial and media), is permanently in charge of making clear which surnames are dangerous for their minority interests.”
Mariano Recalde pointed out: “They think of a Kirchner candidate and quickly send their spokespersons to threaten with prison and proscription.” Tailhade, for his part, stressed that they seek “a political system without a Kirchner and with docile candidates to guarantee their privileges, whoever wins.”
This strategy of using puppets to convey a univocal message is not new in ultra-Kirchnerism. They already did it when they came out to defend Teresa García after the leader was criticized for saying that a new “Cámpora” should be sought as a candidate who had no identity of his own and was a subject of Cristina Kirchner’s power.
In the Kicillof camp, the order that the governor himself gave is not to respond to the “provocations” of the hardline Kirchnerist wing and to focus on the discussion with Javier Milei for building an alternative. In a conclave of the Movimiento Derecho al Futuro that took place in La Plata days ago, Kicillof left the door open to the possibility of competing in a primary against the challenger designated by Kirchnerism, but clarified that this 2026 “is not the time for candidacies.”
It is speculated, although it is still premature for certainties, that Kirchnerism could nominate Cristina Kirchner as a presidential candidate in 2027 on a ticket with some loyal leader, and that when the Justice denies her the possibility, the running mate would go on to head the ballot.
The one who stepped into the internal dispute with a desire to pacify was the governor of La Rioja, Ricardo Quintela, who rejected the characterization of “traitor” that Camporism attributes to Kicillof, and expressed confidence that the governor’s confrontation with Cristina Kirchner “will be resolved.” “No, I do not share that he is a traitor. We are never exempt from making mistakes, but under no circumstances to betray a comrade,” he considered.
Para mí estos zurdos de mierda se están devorando entre ellos. Máximo, el nene de mamá, mandando a sus camporistas a pegarle a Kicillof. Esto huele a que el poder económico los tiene bailando. Berretines, no saben ni gobernar, son una joda.
Para mí esto huele a traición de la peor calaña. Máximo y la Cámpora atacando a Kicillof, el único que labura contra el poder real. Son unos vendepatria, se arrodillan al ajuste mientras defienden apellidos de mierda. Kicillof es el pueblo, no estos gorilas kirchneristas de cartón. ¡Qué asco!