02/12/2020 - 16:51
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Zulemita Menem , the daughter of the two-time president and current national senator for La Rioja, had been at Casa Rosada in 2017 but Alberto Kohan, one of the political "monks" of the 1990s , who played a central role in that decade, " long time" that the government headquarters does not step on.
So much that he did not know or did not want to detail.
Kohan returned this Wednesday with Zulemita to meet with Julio Vitobello, General Secretary of the Presidency, an armchair that Kohan occupied in two shifts in the Menem era: at the beginning of the government, between 1989 and 1990, and throughout the second term of the Rioja: between 1995 and 1999.
The initial objective was to visit the Museum of the Casa Rosada, in particular the segment dedicated to belongings of former presidents, where objects that belonged to presidents from Julio Argentino Roca until today are protected.
The Menem family will donate Menem's belongings. They met, then, with Vitobello and later, greeted Alberto Fernández.
Zulemita, very active with his father, entered and retired without speaking to the press but Kohan agreed to a talk with journalists in which he left definitions about Peronism, praised government measures and was confident of the debt renegotiation external
When asked about the relationship with creditors, he said that he follows that process "almost without worry" and left a definition: "One should worry about what it produces, not what it owes."
In addition, he considered that the negotiation should be aimed at: "the lender should negotiate and the government is doing well," said Kohan, who was, in 2003, one of the main owners of Menem's attempt to access a third term. .
Kohan said he did not give advice to Vitobello - "a secretary general is not given advice, at most I share my experience" - and expressed his support for the Fernández government.
Santiago Cafiero received José Luis Gioja, president of the national PJ.
"I want this government to do well because I want the country to do well," Kohan said, adding that the contribution is "don't put sticks on the wheel. The country will work as long as we all work forward."
He avoided, however and all, qualify the government because it goes "little more than a month" but praised, for instance, the idea of "regionalizing the management" of government.
Kohan was with Zulemita, who did not speak to the press. They entered and withdrew together. The former official slides with a cane, sequel to an accident he had in 2004 while hunting in a Rio Negro field.
He then expressed his opinion on Peronism: he said that it must be ordered and that, at some point, internal elections must be held to define the new authorities whose terms expire in May. This Wednesday, the president of the national PJ, José Luis Gioja was at Casa Rosada and was received by the head of Cabinet Santiago Cafiero.
"Peronism has shown that with its successes and mistakes it has shown, on average, the balance that has governed well in Argentina," said Kohan consulted on the PJ. He added: "Almost always: the rest of the governments leave earlier."
Zulemita Menem was at Casa Rosada in 2017 and was received by then Interior Minister Rogelio Frigerio. Last year, it was even speculated that macroism, in search of Peronist identity figures, would offer him a candidacy.
At the end of last year, after silent efforts between Menem and Cristina Kirchner, the former president joined the senator block of the Frente de Todos (FdT).
They are going to donate Carlos Menem's presidencies to the museum of the presidents. That's why they went to the museum, to see what there is and donate something from Carlos I.
Government house museum and there is a segment with belongings of former presidencies, from Roca to the present.
