Almost a year after the closing of lists for the elections primaries of 2025, in Casa Rosada the possibility of eliminating PASO was re-evaluated, not only as a measure to cut public spending, but also to try to expose the internal nature of Peronism in the province of Buenos Aires in the face of the national legislative election .
In La Libertad Avanza they bet on the atomization of pan-Peronism in the main electoral district of the country where, according to the government’s calculations, without primaries Axel Kicillof It would have a more complicated scenario to unify all sectors of the Buenos Aires ruling party within the same ballot in next year’s legislative elections.
Internal of Peronism
“If they get the STEP with a law in Congress, Milei in an alliance with PRO can win the province of Buenos Aires with 30 points“, a leader of Peronism from the province of Buenos Aires ventures as an apocalyptic scenario. The party with which Axel Kicillof governs the main electoral district of the country is in a process of internal reorganization after Máximo Kirchner’s call to hold internal elections in the PJ from Buenos Aires is outside that party scheme. Sergio Massa, like Juan Grabois. From Esteban Echeverría, Fernando Gray also tries to build an alternative pole together with Facundo Moyano and Juan Zabaleta.
The original project of the Bases Law contained a chapter of political reform promoted by Guillermo Francos as Minister of the Interior. The section contained the single paper ballot and the repeal of the PASO, among other modifications. At that time, the opposition claimed Deputies that the political reform would be dealt with in a differentiated project after the vote on the Omnibus Law.
The 2023 electoral process required the State to spend 90,368 million pesos in the three voting stages, between primaries, general elections and the second round. That figure is leveraged Freedom Advances to add votes from allies and move forward with the elimination of primaries for national positions.
PASO and political reform
With Francos now empowered as Chief of Staff, and awaiting the final result of the Bases Law and the fiscal package in Congress, the intention of the Casa Rosada would be to include political reform in the legislative agenda of the second semester within the framework of its fiscal balance policy.
Without PASSEDthe atomization of pan-Peronism after the electoral defeat of 2023 will face the challenge of reorganizing itself internally and defining who will have control of the pen when preparing the assembly of the 2025 ballot in the province of Buenos Aires, a territory where it governs Axel Kicillof with the support of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Massa and Grabois.
The league of mayors moves at its own pace, affected by the drop in revenue and the cut in allocations for public works of the Nation, such as sewers, which have a direct impact on the territory. From Avellaneda, Jorge Ferraresi He begins to massage his project to be a candidate for governor in a scheme that would lead to Axel Kicillof as a candidate for President in 2027. But he is not the only mayor who wants to succeed Kicillof. The Campora of Máximo Kirchner expanded territorially in the province in the last election and already governs in 12 municipalities.
Javier Milei before the PRO
In front will be Freedom Advances with its first tangible test of social support for the adjustment policy. But the ruling party also faces its own dispersion. The internal PRO between Mauricio Macri and Patricia Bullrich it clouds the assembly of an electoral front with Javier Milei’s LLA. The ruling party and the PRO share an electorate and that is why from both sides they do not rule out the creation of a front to achieve majorities in Congress.
However, last week Mauricio Macri ordered the PRO structure in the province of Buenos Aires to be emptied where Daniela Reich, Buenos Aires senator and wife of Diego Valenzuela, attempted a merger with La Libertad Avanza with the help of Bullrich. Néstor Grindetti gathered the party Assembly, decreed acephaly and called for internal elections to replace Reich with Cristian Ritondo, the former president’s candidate for the Buenos Aires PRO.
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