Pablo Ibáñez
04/27/2020 - 18:57
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Alberto Fernández revised the text on Sunday, did a minimal touch-up and gave Axel Kicillof the OK. After a while, the statement was distributed in four parallel channels to inform, en bloc, that in the Federal Capital, Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Santa Fe there would be no recreational outings in the new stage of quarantine due to the coronavirus, which contradicted the Announcement made by the President on Saturday night.
Earlier, the President had chatted with Kicillof. Then the Buenosairean pivoted between the Buenosairean Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, the Cordovan Juan Schiaretti and Omar Perotti, the governor of Santa Fe, to tie an agreement between the four most populated provinces.
That agreement was based on a certainty : none of the political leaders of the "big" territories wanted recreational outings. The four, who agree in their bunkers, were surprised by the tone with which Fernández announced it on Saturday.
Then, with the fait accompli, they strove to strike a balance between rejecting a celebrated measure without looking defiant with a President who gained high support in society - more than 80 approval points, according to some surveys - as a result of how he handled himself before the pandemic.
The shortcut was that table of four, episodic, where the only solid thing is the Schiaretti-Perotti link - the Cordovan was patron of the nomination of the Rafaela man. So it is unimaginable to fantasize about political empathy that exceeds urgency and panic.
In fact, Fernández read and corrected the communiqué from the governors, spoke with everyone and asked Santiago Cafiero, his chief of staff, to reinforce in a radio raid the criteria of autonomy in each province.
Recreational outings in the Province of Buenos Aires
Source: Gov. Province of Buenos Aires Infographic: Clarín
There were parallel talks. Larreta spoke with the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo "Wado" De Pedro, and the Minister of Health, Ginés González García, also spoke with Perotti.
Cafiero interacted with the four governors and, in between, there were contacts and conversations with mayors. It was a large poker where everyone talked to everyone .
The final dialogue was hand-to-hand between Fernández and Kicillof, and it revealed accumulated misgivings . In Olivos they focus on the Bonaernese as the engine of the refusal and, in turn, they say that they hide behind the request of the communal chiefs of the province who did not want to enable the walks.
The protagonists, however, end the episode. "Alberto prioritizes Axel in the bond, although he sees that his relationship with the mayors is not good," point out furious that they know that plot.
In the world AlbertoThey admit that the President failed by not being more emphatic in saying that the final decision was of each province, but, in turn, they reproach that when he raised it on Friday in the teleconference there were no explicit objections.
What's more: in that long talk on Friday, it emerged from a handful of governors, and was even supported by the radical Jujeño Gerardo Morales, the proposal to publish a request against attempts to politically use the pandemic, a missile directed at Mauricio Macri.
In Olivos they are scathing about the idea presented by the governors as victims before a victimizing Fernández. "Let everyone define their own and be responsible for what they decide," adds a government official to the episode that appears as the first spark between Fernández and the governors.
Less bellicose, another presidential collaborator maintains that "they were given the possibility for them to decide" and he rules out that Fernández has been uncomfortable that the provinces do not apply a measure that he announced .
On Friday, Rodríguez Larreta and Kicillof had discussed, in a bilateral talk, the issue of the exits and agreed that it was something that risky and impossible to control.
As soon as the walks sounded like hypotheses, the Buenosairean transmitted that the recreational exits in the Greater Buenos Aires would not be possible , a domain with more than 10 million inhabitants and with a rising contagion curve.
Rodríguez Larreta and Kicillofm shared another criterion. "Instead of authorizing recreational outings, it is preferable to take risks with the opening of sectors that move the economy," a leader who interacted with the two later translated.
A Buenos Aires mayor detailed the reasons why they did not want to move forward and cited the impossibility of controlling that opening and the consequent reaction of other sectors that are going to ask for liberation.
The latest news is that, according to Monday's accounts, almost no province will allow, for now, the recreational outings listed in the presidential decree.