The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) is up in arms after the assembly of candidate lists for Buenos Aires City legislators in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) for the 2025 legislative elections.
According to sources consulted by La Derecha Diario, the discontent of the labor union is mainly due to the total exclusion of its representatives from the ticket headed by Leandro Santoro, under the banner "Es Ahora Buenos Aires," a list that has the full support of the corruption-convicted Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
For the unionists, this electoral assembly doesn't reflect the essence of Peronism as a broad movement, but exclusively responds to the interests, whims, and vision of the former president, sidelining key sectors like the CGT and other historical spaces of Justicialism.
In CABA, Peronism is presented fragmented with two lists that, far from generating consensus, have deepened internal tensions. Besides Santoro's ticket, supported by Cristina, there is another headed by Alejandro Kim, from the "Principios y Valores" space, promoted by Guillermo Moreno, former Secretary of Commerce and a figure in the more orthodox and anti-Kirchnerist Peronism.
However, none of these options managed to satisfy the CGT, which rejected the lists because it considers them insufficient to represent the true "Peronism," and the social organizations that are part of the movement.
The absence of names linked to the labor union in both lists was interpreted as a betrayal, especially in the case of Cristina's ticket, which turns out to be a closed and personalist assembly.
