06/16/2020 - 20:22
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The Casa Rosada found the perfect justification to avoid exposing Alberto Fernández to a collision with street protests and suspended the President's trip to Rosario for Flag Day. The flight was scheduled for this Saturday, but the Presidency of the Nation announced that it was suspending it "to preserve the health issue and respect isolation in the framework of the pandemic by Covid-19."
Strictly speaking, rural producers from Santa Fe had called for a protest on the routes of the province for the same day against the project to nationalize the cereal factory Vicentin. The news of the cancellation after the President himself confirmed his presence in Rosario. "How can I not go? It will be more careful because we have to take care of ourselves. We will not be able to see the longest flag in the world parade, but I am going to go, ”he said in an interview with a radio in that city.
Last Monday's announcement generated a state of shock in Santa Fe, due to the fact that the Vicentin group, dedicated to the export of agrifoods, is the largest company in the province and has been installed in Avellaneda, in the north for more than a hundred years. santafesino.
In a cable from the official agency Télam, it was stated that "with the change in modality, the President will participate virtually and from Buenos Aires in the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the death of the creator of the national flag, Manuel Belgrano."
In Santa Fe, agricultural producers have carried out various saucepans and street protests since the expropriation was announced, and the governor himself, Omar Perotti - who spoke in favor of the judicial intervention of the company - tries to reach consensus on some "overcoming proposal" to avoid the advance of the expropriation project, which could enter the National Senate this Friday and be dealt with in the Chamber of Deputies from the first week of July.
The last of these acts of protest was made this Tuesday in Avellaneda and Reconquista, where the residents of those two cities - whose economic life depends largely on the cereal industry - marched to the company headquarters and then to the head of the court in where the bankruptcy process is carried out, which would become a futile procedure if the business group, the largest exporter of agro-foods of Argentine origin, is expropriated.
The event in Rosario, which presidents usually attend, was not going to be that of any other year, because 2020 is the bicentennial of the death of Manuel Belgrano. Alberto Fernández himself decided to turn it into a Belgran year by declaring 2020 as the “Year of General Manuel Belgrano”.
Before the cancellation of the trip was announced, the Presidency had anticipated that Fernández would arrive at the cradle of the flag with a very small retinue of officials. The intention was that criticism would not arise again for the arrival of large presidential delegations and that they be handled with little care to avoid the spread of coronavirus in cities where the presence of cases is much less than that of the Federal Capital and Greater Buenos Aires. .
Those protests had arisen from the President's trips to Formosa, La Pampa and Neuquén, where he was photographed together with large numbers of people without wearing a mask.
The act will be done with the President connected by videoconference from Buenos Aires and the rest of the participants in Rosario. At the Casa Rosada they evaluate mechanisms to try to get the President to take the oath of the flag in a virtual way.