The governor of Buenos Aires Province, Axel Kicillof, won the internal elections of the Justicialist Party (PJ) in 10 of the 16 districts where voting took place this Sunday and is now accelerating his political organization for 2027 with the launch of his own think tank, the "Movement for the Right to the Future" (MDF).
According to party data accessed by the Argentine News Agency, the lists aligned with the governor won the majority of the municipalities in dispute, while La Cámpora retained 4 districts and the Front for Renewal took another two, including Junín, where Kicillofism played in favor of massism to consolidate a local unity scheme.
With the result of the primary, Kicillof is strengthened in the leadership of the Buenos Aires PJ, within the framework of the agreement that projects him as the party's presidential candidate and repositions his MDF space as the largest minority within provincial Peronism.
"In his environment, they affirm that the governor was 'very satisfied' with the internal map and that now 'we have to keep building' for the national dispute." The next step will be this Tuesday, March 17, in La Plata, where the Center for Studies for the Right to the Future (CEDAF), the MDF's idea factory, will present itself. It will function as a think tank to design public policy proposals, articulate study centers, and feed a possible government plan with a horizon for 2027.
CEDAF will be coordinated by former Buenos Aires Minister of Labor Mara Ruiz Malec, accompanied by former Infrastructure Minister Agustín Simone and former Aerolíneas Argentinas CEO Pablo Ceriani, key figures in Kicillof's inner circle who have been working for months to articulate technical and academic teams from all over the country.
According to what its promoters have announced, the center of studies will have three central objectives: to weave a network of existing centers and research hubs, to design an action plan for "the Argentina to come", and to travel the country to support the territorial construction of the MDF outside the province of Buenos Aires.
In his immediate agenda, Kicillof will combine political deployment with management activities. On Wednesday, he will travel to Bahía Blanca to supervise the progress of the reconstruction works after the floods and lead the delivery of homes, in an area that was strongly affected by the flooding. On Thursday, the governor plans to inaugurate a school in the district of Morón, one of the strongholds where the MDF has been consolidating its own strength, and then participate in the City of Buenos Aires in an event to launch the MDF of the capital, within the framework of its progressive political landing in the district.
On Friday, meanwhile, the official agenda foresees management activities on Isla Martín García, with tours and initiatives linked to infrastructure and the presence of the provincial government, a gesture with which Kicillofism seeks to reinforce its discourse on the internal federalization of the Buenos Aires territory.
With control of the majority of the PJ's districts in Buenos Aires and the launch of its own public policy think tank, Kicillof is trying to organize provincial Peronism and, at the same time, give programmatic content to his project to compete with President Javier Milei in the 2027 presidential elections.
