Overview

• Speaking at the inauguration of Quilmes’ Diego Armando Maradona sports complex, Kirchner demanded the same provincial investment for Quilmes that he said La Plata receives.
• The remarks from the August 21 event, delivered alongside Mayor Mayra Mendoza and candidate Jorge Taiana, were captured in a video that went viral in recent days.
• Hours earlier in Quilmes, Governor Axel Kicillof opened a departmental jail with capacity for 312 inmates and an investment of 15,091 million pesos, blaming President Javier Milei for funding shortfalls in the penitentiary plan.
• The dispute revives a more than year‑long rivalry between La Cámpora’s leadership and Kicillof over direction and control of the provincial PJ.
• Online reactions criticized Kirchner’s timing before the vote and noted Taiana’s apparent discomfort as Kirchner both urged support for him and attacked Milei.