The macrismo replied with photos to the Government for the state of the Casa Rosada: "It was a ruin"

02/10/2020 - 19:17

• Clarín.com
• Politics

On 12/11/19, on his first day of management, Alberto Fernández told reporters at the Casa Rosada: "I don't know if the President came to work there, because the air conditioning does not work and is insufferable." Since then, the controversy was installed, which included a complaint against macrismo for the heritage of the historic building. Now, the previous government came out to respond.

"After 12 years of Government, the Casa Rosada we found was the monument to neglect and abandonment, " former Presidency Secretary Fernando de Andreis put on Twitter , who used the "thread" format of this network social to make your release.

De Andreis also considered that "the accusations of" irreparable damage to the historical heritage " made before the Justice by the national senator of the Front of All Oscar Parrilli are false .

After 12 years of government, the Casa Rosada that we found was the monument to neglect and abandonment. I open thread.

Strictly speaking, Parrilli had considered days ago that Mauricio Macri and the former general secretary of the Presidency had allowed "irreparable damage to the historical heritage" of the Casa Rosada, after denouncing both in Justice for "aggravated damage and non-compliance of the duties of a public official ".

"What a disaster they have made," the current President had said, while touring the halls of Government House. The biggest uproar was generated by the extraction of an old Carrara marble staircase (from 1890) known as “Balcarce 50”, but also by the moving of the library, the replacement of historical furniture and the transformation into offices of the Argentine Women Hall .

Let's start from top to bottom. Garbage on the roof of the Government House as if it were an abandoned building. This we found in December 2015. pic.twitter.com/wsje9ZHpAM

De Andreis now responded to the government with a series of tweets in which he was showing photos that gave an account of the "before and after" of some of the environments with a brief description of what they found in each one when they came to power in 2015.

De Andreis's tweets

" The abandonment was so great that we decided not to release images of the state of the House to avoid the sadness that it would mean for everyone to recognize the neglect of the most important building in the country," De Andreis wrote referring to the moment they assumed in December 2015 .

He added: "However, given the falsehoods expressed by authorities of the new government, which include a ladder that jeopardized the safety of all employees, it seems appropriate to see some of those photos that show the truth we found."

Garbage dumps inside the building. Even on the top floor of the presidential office we find paraphernalia of broken furniture, garbage, broken machines ... These garbage collections also seriously threatened the safety of the building and employees. pic.twitter.com/XvJdK1lke3

The shower of a bathroom in which documents were filed, nests of furnaces and garbage on the facade of the Casa Rosada , rooms with furniture and ruined objects and the roof of the Rosada with an improvised garbage collector are seen in some of the published photos.

In this environment there was a dovecot of offices and broken filing cabinets. The extraordinary floor was covered by a dirty carpet. We recover it, in the same way that we work to repair the yards. pic.twitter.com/npwV0YNpCA

"Where you look at the Casa Rosada was a ruin: the historical tapestries without color, the smelly bathrooms, corridors and patios with broken tiles, dirty walls, carpets full of mites ... Then we made a comprehensive Master Plan to have a house Safe, Sustainable and Efficient, "the former official wrote.

Andreis finally uploaded another section of images in which he shows photos of the Rosada during his tenure as a way of claiming it.

The remodeling of the controversy

In January, a difficult and unresolved debate on heritage became hot: to what extent historical assets can be "touched" if they do not meet current security needs or measures. These and more questions arose after the observations of President Alberto Fernández on the remodeling plan “Casa Rosada for the 21st Century”, initiated by the management of Mauricio Macri in 2017 and now slowed down.

After the debate over the “amputation” of an 1890 staircase , Clarín interviewed heritage experts who pointed out the mistakes of the previous government and the commission responsible for national property.

Parrilli's complaint

"The heritage must be taken care of, preserved, maintained. That is the obligation of the officials and Macri and De Andreis did not. Here is a new crime of the many that were committed. The works that were carried out during our management in the Casa Rosada to recover the assets of the Argentines, "Parrilli had said in statements to FM La Patriada.

Parrilli's presentation fell to the court of Julián Ercolini, who is responsible for several cases involving several former Kirchner officials, and the former director of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) asked the magistrate to "investigate if there were crimes."

" We left the Casa Rosada in perfect condition and left everything ruined . Only the military dictatorship caused such great damage to the heritage. We believe that there were crimes and hopefully investigated," Parrilli had pointed out when denouncing Macri and De Andreis.