Peronist meeting in San Juan: Máximo Kirchner, Uñac, and a group of legislators add a new photo of unity

Sergio Uñac and Máximo KirchnerThis Thursday, in the province of San Juan, there will be a new significant Peronist gathering. The host will be former governor and current national senator Sergio Uñac, one of the PJ's presidential pre-candidates. The main guest will be Máximo Kirchner, the strongman of Kirchnerism and Cristina Kirchner's delegate on the ground. There will also be a large number of national legislators and grassroots leaders accompanying the event. The legislative delegation will be made up of Juliana di Tullio, Florencia López, Carlos Linares, Ana Marks, Fernando Rejal, Marcelo Lewandowski, Fernando Salino, Florencia Carignano, Florencia Estevez, Paula Pennaca, Carlos Castagneto, Carolina Gaillard, Mario "Paco" Manrique, José Glonski and Fernando Rejal. There will also be leaders from the Frente Renovador, although the names have not yet been confirmed. It will be a gathering where the aim will be to convey a message of unity, the commitment to work together ahead of the 2027 electoral process, and the need to build a common agenda regarding economic and production policy. The meeting taking place today follows a series of other gatherings that have come to light in recent weeks, such as the one held by the leader of La Cámpora, Uñac, Jorge Capitanich and the governor of La Rioja, Ricardo Quintela, or the Peronist summit at the Emperador Hotel, where Kirchner, Massa, Axel Kicillof and the rest of the provincial governors of Fuerza Patria were present. All signs of rapprochement among different Peronist figures, and in the middle of an internal dispute, based in the province of Buenos Aires, that remains active. Sergio Uñac and Leonardo NardiniAs for how the day will unfold, activities will begin around midday in the department of Albardón, with an event called "Democracy, the Interior and Participation," where the impact of the national government's economic policies on regional economies, industry and employment will be analyzed. Uñac's aim, as the driving force behind the gathering, is to build a common agenda from the provinces. The goal the San Juan native has laid out is to create a forum to discuss the country's priorities, share diagnoses and move toward agreements. To find common ground regarding the current economic and political situation, and to send a signal within Peronism about the need to narrow differences and take on joint work. The former governor of San Juan has long insisted on the need for next year's Peronist ticket to have influence and representation from the country's interior. That idea will hover over all the day's activities and will be one of the messages that Uñac himself will make sure to make clear. Among the topics that will run through the conversations on the San Juan agenda will be the political reform promoted by the national government, which has the elimination of the PASO primaries as its central issue. Within Peronism, they have for some time been working under the assumption that the Casa Rosada may achieve their elimination or, eventually, their suspension. However, there are some leaders on the front line of the PJ who are convinced that the ruling party will not be able to knock down the primary elections. Then, the agreement on how to organize the competition is another part of the story to be resolved. In recent months, Máximo Kirchner began a tour of different provinces across the country. All the leaders who will be present agree on the need to keep the PASO primaries so that Peronism can settle its differences and legitimize a candidate. Massa and Kirchner have been saying that they must try to keep that tool in Congress so it can function as an organizing axis. Uñac, on the other hand, believes it is very likely that Milei's government will manage, at the very least, to suspend the primaries and has proposed, as an alternative path, holding an open party election divided into four regions and stages. The possibility of having to organize an internal election is in Peronism's plans. It was a topic discussed at the meeting held in Máximo Kirchner's offices in San Telmo, where a plan B was devised to quickly deal with a potential fall of the PASO primaries. Several Justicialist leaders are beginning to take more seriously the idea of building an internal election in the first half of next year. In the late afternoon on Thursday, there will be a gathering of all the visitors, along with leaders of local Peronism, at the headquarters of the San Juan PJ. They plan to hold an event called: "Working Table: The Argentina to Come." It is possible that, as the weeks go by, one of the activities will be replicated in another province of the country, giving a federal framework to the political movements of the national figures. Sergio Uñac is one of Peronism's presidential pre-candidates. He has been touring several provinces and pushes the idea that next year's electoral ticket must include a figure from the interior. "We need to renew the faces and we have to reach an agreement," he said a few days ago. The San Juan native insists on the need to hold a party internal election in different sectors of the country. But above all, he demands that the demands of the interior of the country materialize into a working agenda and, consequently, into a government program. Máximo Kirchner, as Infobae has reported, has been building a national profile through his tours of different provinces across the country and has become the strongman of Kirchnerism, taking into account the limitations CFK faces due to her conviction and detention. In an interview he gave to this outlet's streaming channel, he asserted that his mother has the ambition to be a presidential candidate next year and stirred up the Justicialist ecosystem. "If the next government is Peronist, the president must be CFK," he declared. The two leaders are involved in the articulation of the Justicialist structure and appear, within the political space, in different electoral scenarios. What is certain is that with today's meeting they will show close alignment and an evident distance from the path Axel Kicillof is taking, who at this point in the calendar is Peronism's main presidential candidate, despite lacking the consensus of an important part of the coalition. The PASO primaries, or an internal competition, become decisive so that the vote can settle those differences.