Ignacio Ortelli
09/09/2020 - 18:46
Clarín.com
Politics
"Who is going to resign? This is not for craps. "
Those who listened to
Sergio Berni
in these hours of tension due to the protest of the Buenos Aires Police say that the provincial security minister laughs when asked about the matter.
They say that he is "intact", "firmer than ever" and that he did not evaluate "never" leaving his position.
He is not concerned, they point out, by the pressure of a group of PJ mayors to step aside and, much less, by the criticism of the opposition: in the end he received
public support from Axel Kicillof,
who ultimately represents the certainty that Cristina Kirchner,
her only leader
, did not remove his support.
"He has not slept for two days because of this quilombo and until it is solved he will not stop," exaggerates a man of his extreme confidence to this newspaper.
While waiting for the provincial Minister of Economy, Pablo López, to finish polishing the numbers to decree the increase to the police, after giving a press conference on Tuesday Berni decided to
call for silence
, in what represented an abrupt turn in his high media profile.
Far from that SUV that ordered the traffic in Puente La Noria in July, in the middle of the internship with his national counterpart Sabina Frederic, or that of the quasi-campaign spots, he decided to withdraw when he noticed that the "fair claim" for salary improvement was fired by political issues.
He also disconnected from what is said in the media.
They trust their environment that their decision not to answer the phone is due to a "strategy" in the face of the negotiation that, although it does not occur in formal terms due to legal impediments (the Buenos Aires Police do not have a union), are carried out by officials of their ministry .
The Undersecretary for the Coordination of Security Policies, Darío Ruiz, reports from the offices of Puente 12 in La Matanza the progress of the dialogue.
“He decided to go to La Plata, so that no one wants to make a show using his presence, but he is on top of everything that is said and talks minute by minute with Axel.
Against what everyone thinks and the operations that exist, this brought them closer together ”, they say from the Province.
They were not referring to the protest itself, but to pressure from political sectors that, based on the claim, put pressure on Kicillof.
Although the governor's office assures that "no mayor asked for Berni's head", the silence to which the mayors of the Conurbano were called until they were summoned to go to Quinta de Olivos was overwhelming.
“If they wanted to take him out of Crazy, they went too far.
And through the media, you don't get a minister from Axel and even less from Cristina ”, reasons a leading Buenos Aires Peronist leader who knows first-hand the close relationship of more than 30 years between the official and the vice president.
The allusion has to do with the composition of the protest.
“The most important areas, such as the Infantry, the Falcon Group, the GAD (Departmental Support Groups) did not fold.
There are less than 2,000 police officers in a force that has 90,000 troops.
There is no leadership problem ”, they review in the governorate, where they maintain that the bulk of the troops who demonstrated respond to what were the local police, whose control Berni refused to return to the mayors.
A decision that, of course, Kicillof endorsed.
Hence, the arm wrestling seems to exceed the one that from the first days of management was evidenced between the mayors with the Minister of Security and from which Alberto Fernández is not completely alien, despite the fact that in recent weeks he sought to conciliate within the framework of the Comprehensive Security Plan launched by your Government.
Indeed, the lack of a pronouncement of a massive support of the mayors of the PJ, except Julio Zamora (Tigre) and Mayra Mendoza (Quilmes), during Tuesday and a good part of Wednesday, even with the presidential residence surrounded by patrolmen and hundreds of cash - fueled speculation, despite the fact that close to the governor they swear that he is "working together with them" to find a solution.
However, there were mayors called by the national government to meet with Alberto F. and Kicillof recently confirmed attendance when they heard that opposition peers, with the local Jorge Macri and Diego Valenzuela (Tres de Febrero) at the head, had decided to participate in the meeting with the President and the Governor, as a gesture of institutional strength.
Berni, who promised to keep a low profile until an agreement is reached, abstained from participating in the meeting, so as not to heat up spirits.
After all, he knows that his continuity depends exclusively on Cristina.
