Argentina’s political drift contains at this time Axel Kicillof, the Buenos Aires governor that he has had a double victory on Sunday night: he crushed Javier Milei at the polls and also imposed himself in a deaf controversy with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. His desires to become president of this country acquired greater consistency. “It is for axel driving”they sang yesterday during the Celebrations of the electoral triumph against the extreme right in the province of Buenos Aires for almost 14 points. Although they were provincial legislative elections, they had a clear national impact that severely conditions Milei. “The driving” that the militants claimed is that of Peronism to undertake in 2027 the return of page of the worst economic, social and cultural experience that Argentines are going through.
Kicillof is 53 years old. He is the son of two psychoanalystsDaniel Kicillof and Nora Barenstein, both Askenazi Jews. She is married to the doctor in letters, Soledad Quereilhacwith whom he has had two children. He studied at the Buenos Aires National College where part of the elite has been formed. He graduated with honors at the university. While studying economics he participated in the student group Fools, but not so much (TNT) that in 2001 he called not to attend the legislative elections that signed the fate of President Fernando de la Rúa. Two months later I would abandon power. TNT proposed to ignore the call of the polls moving 500 kilometers. From that distance, the absence to elections ceased to be punishable for the law. Almost a quarter of a century later is the force of the vote that constitutes it as an unavoidable reference.
He joined the second government of Cristina Kirchner in 2011. He went from intermediate positions to the Ministry of Economy. He was closely linked to nationalization of YPF Repsol, in 2012. He won the Government of Buenos Aires in 2019 in front of the traditional right. He campaigned in front of an old Renault with which he toured all the largest demographic and economic territory in this country. It was reelected in 2023 in the midst of the Peronist debacle that opened the doors of the executive headquarters to a television gathering who caught attention for his stridency and appearance.
“New melodies”
“Kici”, as they call it, is a dilated son of Kirchnerism. However, from the electoral defeat of 2023 a process of slow and subtle distancing its leadership began. Created the right movement to the future (MDF) With a call to sing “new melodies.” The governor has been white since that moment of a double harassment. On the one hand, Milei, who called him “Dwarf Communist”, “Pichón de Stalin”, “Tsar of Misery” and “Donkey Without Attribute”. Kicillof is a student of the work of the English economist John Maynard Keynes, especially the role that the State plays in moments of depression. And Keynes is the demon in person for Milei. “I don’t know if it’s personal immaturity, sometimes it seems something teenage,” The governor replied. In these almost two years it was proposed to limit “the chainsaw“In its district despite the lack of resources and the threats of a federal intervention.
The other conflicting front came from Kirchnerism. His relationships with Maximum Kirchner, His mother’s right hand deteriorated strongly. The recent contest marked a greater mutual gum. Kicillof proposed to unfold the elections of the provincial deputies of the national elections, scheduled for October 26, and found a strong resistance in what remains of the family clan. The background discussion has to do with eThe desire for Kicillof to undertake a presidential project without the determining guardianship of that surname. Despite those obvious roughness, his first words on the night of the victory were for Fernández de Kirchner. The former president, highlighted when talking to the country, should never have been sentenced to six years in prison because, she remarked, is innocent and object of a political and judicial persecution.
Two decades ago, Peronism did not overcome in mid -term legislative elections. Kicillof tasted the moment that led to a historical point. New challenges await you. Storm fronts not only come from the presidency. The aspiration to lead to the main opposition party without internal fissures and the promise to expand alliances to defeat the ultra -right in 2027 promise more frictions with the Kirchner. “Kici” has sworn not to repeat the bitter experience of the government of Alberto Fernández That, with his thunderous failure, he created the conditions for the emergence of Milei. Some fear that the need to find new route colleagues to push him towards areas of moderation that blur their profile.
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