“That all go away”. Néstor Kirchner y Jorge Sobisch from Patagonia. Territory and leadership in conflict.

Abstract

Since the return of democracy in 1983, the Patagonian region has proved to be a territory of actors with dynamic and lively national presence. The emergence of a more or less successful influence has been marked by the results of alliances and / or disputes both intraregional and interregional. In this context, we propose to explain how two national governors of Patagonia, Jorge Sobisch (Neuquén) and Néstor Kirchner (Santa Cruz), one from North Patagonia and the other from South Patagonia, are building national power in order to aspire to the presidency of the Nation From the institutional crisis of legitimacy and governability of 2001 that became in the motto "that all go away". The question of the conditions of possibility of configuration of different strategies engendered in that context, coincident with the end of the long Menemist decade, becomes the structuring concern of the work that seeks to be approached from Political History. Therefore, the focus will be placed on the play of certain Patagonian political actors in the course of their competition for power in order to contribute to the complexity of the national explanatory traits that have occurred during this period of organic crisis.