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Alberto Fernández points to Mauricio Macri's "Tea party" and his environment asks him to be tougher

2020-07-07T16:49:29.571Z


It distinguishes two sectors with different attitudes in Together for Change. The impact of crime in Santa Cruz and the movements in the Frente de Todos.


Pablo Ibáñez

07/06/2020 - 11:18

  • Clarín.com
  • Politics

"In Cambiemos the Tea party is being imposed." The reference to the most ultra wing of the Republicans in the United States, linked to Together for Change, was heard over the weekend in Alberto Fernández's inner circle and can anticipate, after a fierce weekend, a political turn in the government .

The pulse surrounding the crime of Fabián Gutiérrez, one of Cristina Kirchner's ex-secretaries, broke with virulence, triggered an early statement by Together for Change (JxC) and became, later, the official counteroffensive.

Alberto Fernández, in Olivos, with his dog Dylan.

It was, for the albertismo, an indication that can mark what comes: that an opposition space will turn towards an increasingly extreme position and that this behavior can derive in a hardening of the presidential position.

"Alberto continues in Zen mode, dialogist, but there are more and more internal complaints because we pay the cost and they criticize us for things that in the end we do not do," an intimate president of the president pointed out to Clarín and cited, as an example, the expropriation of Vicentin.

Fernández paid the cost of moving forward and backward, gave the ball to Omar Perotti and what came later did not give results yet: Judge Fabián Lorenzini twice ruled in favor of the family and returned control.

On Saturday, Fernández reacted upon learning of the Juntos para el Cambio communiqué that categorized the Gutiérrez crime as "extremely institutionally serious" in what he said was a "rogue" attempt to involve the government.

In Olivos they trace this reaction and attribute it to two actors: Patricia Bullrich and Alfredo Cornejo. About the former minister they say -data that is corroborated in sectors of the JxC- that he does not move any piece without first consulting Mauricio Macri. 

The Cambodian "tea party"  has the last terminal, the former president says in the ruling party and marks the field for the other opposition spaces that Albertism considers more civilized: there they locate Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, - whom Fernández treats with deference - María Eugenia Vidal, Julio Cobos, Emilio Monzó and, among others, Cristian Ritondo.

"Alberto works every day to emphasize that in the opposition they are not all the same and, in addition, to maintain the unity of the ruling front," says a man from the first ring of AF.

The other phenomenon that was consolidated these days has to do with the fact that, despite the multiple crisis, the official front is solid and that any movement to tension among the Fernández would seem doomed to fail.

It is a puzzle where several pieces are aligned. The meetings of Máximo Kirchner with referents of business power, Sergio Massa's project on silobags - a message for the countryside - and even Sheriff Sergio Berni's TV appearances .

They are, although not perhaps not responding to a centralized and fingered tactic, gestures that have a common axis: speaking to universes that are not the ones that Kirchnerism historically spoke to.

It does not seem, in truth, that there is a master plan in the midst of the spasms of the pandemic and the crisis, but, to a minimum, there are coincidences in various actors on who to have as interlocutors.

The idea of ​​talking about a "tea party" from Cambodia fits into that logic: a Together for Extreme Change, which points to irreconcilable issues with the government, while on other fronts it operates differently: Ritondo with Massa and Máximo K, Larreta with Fernández, the governors with the Casa Rosada, as well as the PRO mayors.

In this logic, the hypotheses or agitations about ruptures between the Fernándezes, shipwreck soon after setting sail. Speculation about a potential crisis in 2021 due to the closing of the lists does not worry Olivos either.

The problem of 2021 will be, in any case, the economy and not the institutionality that is the usual flag of anti-Peronism, recalls a leader of the PJ, referring to the identity of the "tea party" of Together for Change.

In government they say that the weekend, the macrismo started with the electoral campaign of 2021 , a way of interpreting with political logic the shocks of these days.

Bullrich, they say, wants to be a candidate in the City and then, with Rodríguez Larreta, whom they see without margin to confront and even risk that, if necessary, he will have to bet on Diego Santilli as a candidate to guarantee the top of the list. I don't know

But there are buts. What if Macri appears and wants to be a candidate? What if Lilita Carrió abandons her internal exile in Exaltation of the Cross?

In 2021, they understand in the PJ, explains the deployment of Alfredo Cornejo that aims to head the list of national senators next year in Mendoza. Cornejo knotted, these days, several movements: he spoke of Mendoza's autonomy, subdued Governor Rodolfo Suárez and imposed a new member of the Mendoza Supreme Court - the president of the court, Edelmiro Garay, was Minister of Government of Cornejo - and He then agitated the "institutional" approach in the Gutiérrez case.

Cornejo has a plan A and a plan A bis: win, with a lot of margin in 2021 to appear on the presidential grid and if he does not give it, return to the province. In Mendoza, even the PJ, considers that in JxC they do not notice Cornejo's skill and bravery in the political dispute.

Meanwhile, last week, Fernández made a minimal gesture: on Tuesday, he called Julio Cobos and he did it just - not coincidentally - when the radical senator from Mendoza was in a meeting with leaders of the Cambia Mendoza about the Portezuela issue, among those that were Suárez and Cornejo.

Source: clarin

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