No sooner had the Supreme Court ruling ratifying Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s prison sentence come out than the government started seeing two options ahead for the Partido Justicialista: either total unity or the breaking up into thousands of fragments.
There were also references to opposition phrases and a heads-up: President Javier Milei’s government will guarantee “public order” in the street in the face of trade union demonstrations.
Government sources in the presidential entourage expressed that there is a unanimous judicial decision in three instances which must be respected and that the presidential office will not be releasing any communiqué regarding the Supreme Court ruling.
Despite that, President Javier Milei, Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich were the members of La Libertad Avanza who wasted no time in expressing their viewpoint as soon as the ruling came out.
Inside the Casa Rosada they believe that the PJ, with its party chair convicted, finds itself at a crossroads. Either they cut out all the infighting and establish their unity in the face of the approaching electoral process or “they break up into a thousand fragments.”
“Without a leader to create order, this can happen in politics – that Peronism will be divided into many options,” one source maintains.
There are no calculations or strategies as to how the government should square off against Peronism without Fernández de Kirchner running. In La Libertad Avanza they assure that there will be no “transfer of votes” to whoever is the Unión por la Patria candidate.
Otherwise, government voices expressed that those opposition politicians, especially some PRO leaders who indicated that the government had constructed “a pact of impunity” with Kirchnerism to make the ‘ficha limpia’ (“clean slate”) bill fail “should [now] apologise.”
There was also an idea circulating in the presidential entourage that those trade union demonstrations which cut streets in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area suit the government “because people want to return home quietly and will end up complaining against the demonstrators.”
“But the priority is public order,” they assert in reference to the government establishing anti-picket controls to prevent traffic chaos.
Milei on CFK conviction
“When the executive branch does not exert pressure, the justice system acts swiftly.”
Speaking from Israel, President Javier Milei said this week that when “the executive branch does not exert pressure, the justice system acts swiftly.”
Referencing the Supreme Court ruling against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said that – under his government – “those who commit crimes will pay for them.”
In the same vein, he stated: “As the first president who does not interfere with the judiciary, the results are clear to see, and the independent Judiciary did what it had to do.”
‘All credit goes to the Judiciary, to the Supreme Court. All I can say is that I have been consistent with my republican vision and have allowed the judges to act freely,’ said the president.
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