Insignificant mobilization of Córdoba's La Cámpora in support of CFK

Deputy Gabriela Estévez and legislator Federico Alesandri once again painfully forced the narrative machinery with a letter to the Córdoba PJ. They demand that Juan Schiaretti, as party president, speak out in defense of Cristina Kirchner. They request institutional support in the face of the conviction of a leader who has accumulated adverse rulings for corruption and fraudulent administration.

The ruling in question corresponds to the Vialidad case, where CFK was sentenced to six years in prison for corruption against the national government. In addition, she was permanently disqualified from holding public office for having directed public works contracts in favor of Lázaro Báez. The verdict left no room for interpretation: the judges considered the multimillion-dollar damage to the treasury during her two presidencies to be proven.

Far from taking responsibility, Kirchnerism resorts to its usual script: it denounces judicial persecution and claims that democracy is in danger. Córdoba, however, doesn't buy into the script; for decades it has distanced itself from Kirchnerism in every election. Still, the local La Cámpora decided to call this demonstration for today at 5:00 p.m., in front of the Córdoba PJ party headquarters.

A desperate maneuver in an empty headquarters

In a symbolic attempt to set the agenda, the leaders wanted to present the letter at the Córdoba PJ headquarters, which was closed. Not even former senator Haide Giri, sent to deliver the letter, managed to get the door opened for her, despite having been told otherwise. The scene was almost parodic: activists demanding support in an empty headquarters, in a province that turns its back on them.

The letter sent by Estévez and Alesandri invokes concepts such as "rule of law" and "institutionality," deliberately ignoring the court ruling. The pretense that the local PJ should join a victimization narrative sounds absurd in a province that completely rejects Kirchnerism. The message is clear: they want to use a hollowed-out party structure in Córdoba as a sounding board for an exhausted narrative.

In addition to the desperate statement, the signatories demand to use the party building as a base for their crusade in favor of a person convicted by the courts. The move seeks to force legitimacy through the PJ structure, where CFK still appears as national president. However, that formal role doesn't conceal the political disrepute she carries both inside and outside Peronism.

Disqualification narrative, impunity narrative

Córdoba Kirchnerism insists on presenting CFK's conviction as an anti-democratic maneuver, when in reality it was an exemplary judicial process. The idea of disqualification is offensive: she is not a victim of the system, but a leader who used the state to enrich herself. What Estévez and Alesandri defend is not democracy, it is impunity.

Faced with the loss of votes and representation, Kirchnerism tries to victimize itself to regain centrality in the political discussion. Córdoba, however, remains firm in its rejection, both of messianic speeches and the judicial shielding of its leaders. The request to Schiaretti doesn't seek justice, it seeks institutional complicity in the face of proven facts.

Pitiful statement from Córdoba Kirchnerism

"As part of the Justicialist group "Primero la Patria," we request that the use of the party headquarters in Córdoba be authorized, in order to carry out activities related to our institutional functions and the strengthening of our political tool," says the letter sent by Córdoba Kirchnerism.

The leaders who answer to CFK point to the Judiciary as the vehicle for the disqualification of the former president of the Nation, who serves house arrest in her Buenos Aires apartment. Let us recall that the court required the former president to wear an electronic ankle monitor, like any other prisoner in the same condition. Equality before the law.

"We share with other political expressions that embody the popular will the tragic fate of having been persecuted by those who hold real power in our country. The great concentrated economic interests, which throughout our history have coordinated repression with different institutions. If in other times it was the Army par excellence, today it is the Judiciary and the media who try to silence the voices of the people. Córdoba," concludes the note submitted to the Córdoba PJ.

This shameful circular, in addition to the signatures of the aforementioned leaders, was also signed, among others, by: Fabián Francioni (mayor of Leones); Haidé Giri, José Antonio Novo, Luis María Trotte, Luciano Vrancic, Héctor Lobo, Gaston Tomatis, Ernesto Bernabey, Erika Cuello, Ana Salomone, Andrés Passero, Carlos Piñeiro, Claudia Diehl, Claudio Brito, Cristian Colman, David Salto, Fernando Bossio, Gustavo Irico, Hugo Fernández, and Jorge Torres Roggero, among others.

However, reality is very different from the aspirations of these legitimizers of corruption: Córdoba is and will remain the most anti-Kirchnerist district in the country. Someday they will have to accept it and abandon the fantasy of trying to reverse Córdoba society's rejection of their decadent model, fortunately on the path to extinction.