“We knew we were going to win, but not because of the difference in votes we did,” former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said this afternoon in her first public appearance after the August 11 primary election. It was at the Faculty of Journalism of the University of La Plata, that the vice-candidate for the front of Todos presents her book “Sinceramente”.” You could see it in the air, you could tell in the street,” he said of the support his political strength received in the PASO, adding that “with all this we’re living, he asked me why these four years we lost in this way.”
Cristina Fernandez in La Plata.
“The result of the STEPS is the result of the policies that this government has pursued since December 10, 2015. This would never have happened, maybe even we wouldn’t have won the election. That’s why my feeling is ambivalent,” he said. In a hall full and with thousands of people outside the university headquarters, the former president heard from the top rows the candidate for local mayor for All, Florence Saintout, the candidate for governor from Bonaerense, Axel Kicillof, Mothers and Grandmothers Plaza de Mayo and former DT of the Argentina national football team, Alejandro Sabella.
‘It didn’t occur to us to say ‘ah, you voted for Fulanito, now you’re going to see: I’m going to raise your dollar, I’m going to do such a thing to you.’ Those things are not done to people, it is not good human beings. He’s beyond a good leader or a bad president.”
In another section of her exhibition, the former president reflected: “”It would be very easy for me to make firewood from the fallen tree, but I don’t like it. They blame Macri on everything, but Macri did what every economic sector asked of him. I don’t criticize the economic sectors demanding things, the problem is that when you’re President you can’t allow everything they ask of you.” After a new trip to Cuba to visit her daughter Florence, the senator referred to the young woman’s state of health.” What happens to Florence is very hard because, after her father, she now has all this and I feel responsible,” she confessed about breaking. He added: “I wasn’t that close to people. After Nestor, I changed. They gave me love, rosaries, and i would take the strength out of them.”
“If I’m a vice president candidate, it’s not because I want to be vice president, it’s clear. I thought of it as a way to help shape a new majority in Argentina, and that gives you another look.”
He considered in another section of the presentation that “elections can be lost or won,” and recalled that Nestor Kirchner was defeated by two points in the 2009 election “by a paper candidate” – alluding to Francisco De Narváez – and yet “the next day he went out on a two-point basis ajar without blaming anyone. And less of grabbing it with people and causing measures that hurt society.”
“To us, who spend our time paying off the debts of others, that the current authorities tell us that it is for the populists who come, a little decorum when we talk, no?” emphasized Cristina Kirchner.
A crowd at the Faculty of Journalism of the National University of La Plata.
Cristina Kirchner was highly critical of the economic policy implemented by officialism in reference to “devaluation, rate increase, capital-free income” and added: “I hope that these neoliberal prescriptions that put in your head never come back again “. He later stated that “the middle class with us could save” and that during his management “was never at risk the possibility of filling the changuito in the supermarket or paying the electricity bill.”
“A strategic agreement is needed between all sectors to put together a society that necessarily has to be of industrial profile which is also the great generator of work. And science and technology. This is a historic opportunity to do so,” he said.
He was not present among the more than 700 people who filled the auditorium, was the candidate for president Alberto Fernández, who tomorrow will travel to Spain to give a class. The presentation of the book will continue in other provinces such as Misiones, Entre Ríos and Neuquén prior to the vote on 27 October and pending the defining of the dates, taking into account that the weeks of 13 and 20 October there will be presidential debate. In this note:
