Alberto Ángel Fernández is a lawyer and professor of penal law, of 60 years, who was formed in the Porteño Peronism and, over time, became a requested political shipowner, after being one of the first allies to Nestor Kirchner in the so-called group Calaf Tie. After having moved away from Kirchner with strong criticism in the midst of conflict with the countryside, he is now one of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s main advisors and will lead the presidential formula that takes the senator of Citizen Unity as vice.
Alberto Fernandez with Néstor Kirchner and Daniel Scioli in 2003.
Fans of Argentinian juniors, the club of the neighborhood of the Paternal, Fernandez made his first weapons in politics in 1995, next to Alberto Iribarne and Jorge Argüello as opponents of menemism in the PJ Porteño, which had the covert support of the then Governor Buenos Aires, Eduardo Duhalde. But it was the now legislator of the Parlasul and man close to Pope Francis, Eduardo Valdez, who presented Alberto Fernandez to Nestor Kirchner, who later would be his man of confidence. The entrance to the public service was with an elective office was as legislator Porteño, in 2000, by the hand of Domingo Felipe Cavallo, whom he knew since the time he was a superintendent of insurance of the nation. In 1998, Duhalde had entrusted him with the Foundation that would manage the money for the next year’s presidential campaign. One of his first positions in the public administration was very technical court, during the radical government of Raúl Alfonsín, since in 1985 he was appointed Deputy Director General of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Economy, in the years of the Minister Juan Vital Sourrouille. In 2003 Néstor Kirchner appointed him as chief of staff, a position he held until July 23, 2008 when, already in the First Presidency of Cristina Kirchner, resigned after the conflict with the field by resolution 125 of the withholdings. In those 10 years without talking to the Senator of Citizen Unity, the Buenos Aires leader approached the head of the renewing front, Sergio Massa, and also advised the former minister of Interior and Transport Florencio Randazzo, who was the campaign manager in 2015 and in 2017 Respectively.
Fernandez and Massa, once away from Kirchner.
It also maintains close links with journalists and media executives, including the newspaper Clarín, something that not a few leaders have questioned Kirchner. And in recent days some government officials branded him a judicial operator. They said that he was behind the Supreme Court’s decision that he asked to review the case file for the public works in Santa Cruz. Fernandez denied this imputation and now, along with Cristina Kirchner, assumes its main political challenge: to reach the presidency of the nation. In this note:
