Senator Miguel Ángel Pichetto said that the Peronist party in Río Negro “would stand by” Vice-Governor Alberto Weretilneck, scheduled to take office as provincial governor on Tuesday due to the death of former governor Carlos Soria. “He’s a part of the Kirchnerite model,” he said.
“The Río Negro Peronist Party has always been very respectful of institutional rank structures. We will not impose anything on him, even though we know we are the province’s largest party. We are leading 33 towns and have a majority in parliament, but we’re still going to stand by the Vice-Governor. He’s a part of the Kirchnerite model,” he assured.
“We’re going to abide by the Constitution. Soria was a genuine expression of the Río Negro Peronism,” a party that was put back in power this year after 28 years of Radical rule.
“Now we have a new reality, and a man from the Large Front party is going to take office,” he added.
Pichetto, who said he was “very close” to Soria, defined the former governor as a “passionate, temperamental man who wouldn’t go unnoticed, and who was deeply committed to government action.”
The senator, originally from Río Negro, said he spoke several times to the President yesterday to provide her with more details of the case, and that she “reaffirmed her will to respect Rio Negro’s institutional quality.”
“He was going through one of the best times of his life. He had made it to Governor and had started organizing his province,” he concluded.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald