By setting the Buenos Aires provincial elections for September 2025, Kicillof not only protected his territory from the national dynamic but forced the entire peronist spectrum to measure its strength. This electoral autonomy left national peronism in an extremely fragile position, with a bloc in the Senate reduced to historical minima and a group of governors who, in many cases, prefer pragmatic negotiation with the Casa Rosada over alignment with a bonaerense leadership they perceive as ideological. In this context, the figure of Cristina Kirchner went from being the undisputed leader of peronism to becoming a consultative reference who can no longer manage to discipline the ranks, and she has seen her real political weight diminish since her conviction became final. While Kicillofism builds its own identity based on its management of the Province of Buenos Aires, other sectors of the PJ look at this process with distrust, fearing that the division will ultimately facilitate the continuity of the national ruling party. Kicillof's bet is high-risk: he attempts to build national unity that, paradoxically, begins by breaking with the recent past to try to seduce an electorate that demands a real renewal in the forms and names of the Argentine opposition.
