(Bloomberg) -- President Alberto Fernandez vowed to keep his broad, ruling coalition unified on Thursday a day after several cabinet ministers offered to quit.
“Now isn’t the time to raise disputes that derail us,” Fernandez said in a Twitter thread, adding he’ll “continue guaranteeing the unity” of his alliance, Frente de Todos.
Fernandez is battling a political crisis after the coalition’s damaging loss in a midterm primary vote on Sunday. Several ministers closely allied to Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who governed the nation from 2007 to 2015, offered to resign on Wednesday.
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Kirchner hasn’t commented since the election defeat Sunday. The aftermath has laid bare the coalition’s internal divide between Fernandez’s moderate wing and Kirchner’s more radical supporters ahead of congressional elections in November.
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