San Juan Governor José Luis Gioja described the recently appointed chairman of the Peronist Party, Daniel Scioli, as "much more open" than his predecessor Néstor Kirchner, and called on Peronists to keep supporting the Kirchnerite national administration.

Peronists need to generate consensus and open talks, Gioja told to reporters in Buenos Aires, analyzing the implications of the Peronist defeat in Sunday's mid-term election.

The loss of the parliamentary majority in a key vote for the political future of the Kirchners, prompted changes within the political party, whose leaders are seeking to reach a consensus on which steps to take after the defeat.

Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli, who was appointed as helm of the Peronists after the resignation of Néstor Kirchner on Monday, is conducting a series of meetings with all governors of the 17 Peronist provinces seeking to reunite the party, days after the Peronists they lost against dissident Peronist congressman Francisco De Narváez in Buenos Aires province.

Gioja, a Kirchnerite governor of the western province of San Juan, urged on Peronists to "improve dialogue and generate consensus," and also to "continue supporting the administration of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner," regardless of the defeat. The previous day, Chubut Governor Mario das Neves blamed the election defeat on the Kirchnerites and said Peronists should hold new internal elections.

Gioja today reacted with a softer tone, and said the future of Argentines "depends on the good performance of the Peronist administration," as the Argentine industrial production has been hammered by the international financial crisis.

"There was a message in the ballots that we must listen to. We need to generate more discussion, improve institutions, and support the administration of the President," Gioja told reporters on a local radio.

The governor of Chaco province, Jorge Capitanich is encouraging the Peronist party to "open" and allow dissident voices in a move to revitalize the party, which has been hammered an electoral defeat on Sunday.

"We should encourage dialogue from all the sectors within the Peronism," said the Kirchnerite governor after a meeting with the recently appointed chairman of the Peronists, Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli in the City.

As an increasing number of voices within the party founded by former president Juan Perón are blaming the government for the defeat against the centre-right Unión-PRO, Capitanich said he felt a "great respect" for ex-president Néstor Kirchner, who he said "tried to reach consensus in the negotiations of the slates in the elections."

Capitanich's comments took distance from an increasing number of voices in the party, who have blasted Kirchner for handpicking candidates without consultations.

Capitanich, talking on a local radio, urged Peronisys to "reshuffle the guidelines of the party to favour internal competition to choose the candidates to run in the 2011 presidential election."

Capitanich, meanwhile defended Kirchner's decision to leave the chairmanship of the party, claiming the move aimed at "encouraging dialogue and differences of opinion within the party."