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The Government announced that it will change the name of the Kirchner Cultural Center - Infobae
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El Gobierno anunció que le cambiará el nombre al Centro Cultural Kirchner
El vocero presidencial Manuel Adorni lo comunicó en el inicio de la rueda de prensa que ofrece diariamente en Casa Rosada. El motivo de la decisión y la opción que maneja la administración libertaria
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March 26, 2024
Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni announced this at the beginning of the press conference he offers daily at Casa Rosada. The reason for the decision and the option handled by the libertarian administration
Adorni habló sobre el cambio de nombre del CCK
Adorni habló sobre el cambio de nombre del CCK
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Adorni spoke about the CCK's name change
“ It has finally been decided to change the name of the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK), so it will no longer be called as such and will effectively give way to a new name .” This is how Manuel Adorni summarized the determination made by the national government about the future of the emblematic space created by the Kirchnerist government.
The press conference at Casa Rosada had barely begun when the presidential spokesperson made the announcement, which immediately began to have enormous impact on the media and social networks.
When asked by Infobae about what the new name will be , Adorni pointed out: “ It is not defined , when we define it of course we are going to communicate it to you. But the decision has been made so that it no longer exists as such .” Likewise, he referred to the space as the “now former CCK .”
Casa Rosada sources expanded that the main motivation for this decision has to do with the fact that the former president's name is linked to "corruption" ; As a replacement alternative, they point to “ someone who is from the culture .” And although there is nothing concrete, the name that began to sound loud is Jorge Luis Borges .
The façade of the Kirchner Cultural Center to which Javier Milei's government decided to change the name
The name of the CCK was always a source of dispute between Kirchnerism (at the time the ruling party) and various sectors of the opposition that more than once fantasized about renaming it.
Precisely from PRO the first reaction came today after Adorni's announcement: “ An excellent decision to change the name of the CCK and personally I would love for it to be called CCBorges , but much more I would like a transparent and participatory mechanism to be implemented to choose the name.” of such an important public building,” posted deputy Silvia Lospennato .
In 2017, the administration headed by Mauricio Macri threatened to move forward in this direction and a huge stir was generated. In this context, the then head of the Federal Public Media System, Hernán Lombardi , had to come out to clarify that the initiative that sought to rename the building after Gustavo Cerati had not come from the Government.
However, when asked if he liked the name of the Kirchner Cultural Center, the official responded: “We believe there may be better ones.”
Macrismo even presented a project in Congress so that people's names cannot be named on public buildings until 20 years have passed after their death .
One of the parliamentary proposals was made by the radical Miguel Nanni (already a former deputy), who suggested renaming it the Cultural Center of the Argentine Bicentennial , arguing that “it is not appropriate for the name of a person who arouses so much passion and so much resistance ” as the late former president is used “in such a work.”
Beyond all the speculation and the fiery debates that occur every time the name of the CCK is put on the discussion table, until the Milie government, no administration had officially announced that the building located in lower Buenos Aires would change its name. .
Oblivious to all the ideological battles, the historic former Post Office Palace became, after its renovation and inauguration, a cultural center even for political activities: there Mauricio Macri organized the G20, attended by the main world leaders, and even held meetings of expanded cabinet . Something similar happened under the administration of Alberto Fernández. He also used the libertarian space, for example, to bring together Health Ministers from across the country .
In any case, Kirchnerism suspected that something of this could happen with the change of government and on December 8, two days before Milei's inauguration as president, they surprisingly removed the statue of Néstor Kirchner that was at the door of the Cultural center.
The sculpture, which was originally placed at the headquarters of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), in Quito, Ecuador, arrived at the CCK in October 2020 in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the death of the former president. It was then placed at the entrance to the CCK and at the end of 2023 it was transferred to the municipality of Quilmes governed by Mayra Mendoza.
“It was a management that we were doing since before the change of government. The mayor requested permission from UNASUR for the transfer,” the municipality detailed to Infobae.
The director of the CCK, Valeria Ambrosio , denied that this transfer was a decision by the libertarian authorities: “They took the statue, it was not removed. “Cristina took her, no one took her out.”
