Former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has blamed Buenos Aires Province Governor Axel Kicillof for the bruising loss to Javier Milei in the midterm elections.
This blame is the clearest sign yet that the Peronist movement is plagued by infighting. Kicillof, a prospective presidential candidate and former economy minister under Fernández de Kirchner, had chosen to separate the date of the provincial election in Buenos Aires from the national race.
Kicillof led the Peronists to victory in September, defeating Milei by 14 percentage points, which provoked a market selloff.
Author's summary: Fernández de Kirchner blames Kicillof for election loss to Milei.