09/13/2020 - 19:13
Clarín.com
Opinion
“I'm going to keep asking the City to be part of a country, and stop voting and thinking like an island.
The other day, I was amused by this idea that
the greatest arrogant people in the country were claiming their arrogant status from Cristina.
It was an analysis made by the middle sectors that definitely did not trust Cristina, who saw her with an intolerant attitude, and believed the opposition and some media more ”.
It was October 2007. Cristina Kirchner had just won the presidential elections but had lost in the City at the hands of Elisa Carrió.
After admitting that the district "is elusive",
Alberto Fernández, then Chief of Cabinet, was dispatched against the Buenos Aires voters
.
In light of what happened in the week, when with a stroke of the pen he took co-participation funds from the City to pass them on to the Province, some things must be recognized.
One is that beyond notorious twists and turns, pirouettes and jumps in the air, Fernández maintains a certain coherence.
That he lived in Puerto Madero until he moved to Olivos - it never hurts to remember it - feeling how he feels about the district, would be just an anecdote.
You have to see how strong and resistant some stomachs are.
Hovering around Kirchnerism, without going any further, there is Fito Páez, who contained his disgust for the porteños to move to an apartment on one of the most exclusive streets of the City.
The other thing that must be recognized in those words of Fernández is that the inhabitants of the City, in addition to being arrogant, opulent and insular, as he called them, are visionaries, or quite wise: what, according to him, the voters mistakenly saw in Cristina Kirchner not to vote for her, it was proved conclusively over time.
Pretty sooner rather than later.
Cristina Kirchner and Alberto Fernández.
Photo: EFE / Juan Mabromata / POOL
Known that it was the untimely decision to
undress the City to badly dress the district of Axel Kicillof
, shaken by a police rebellion that took him by surprise,
Carrió
herself
, responsible for that Buenos Aires Kirchnerist defeat, was encouraged with an interpretation bordering on what psychological.
Recalling the neighborhood in which the current vice president, the intellectual author of the maneuver that Fernández carried out against her “friend” Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, just weeks ago, launched:
“Cristina hates what she loves.
She does not live in Fuerte Apache or La Matanza, she lives in Juncal and Arenales
(N of the R: Juncal and Uruguay).
This can account for their obsession and their resentment. "
Even in the most sensible political analysis, one must not lose sight of what some deep emotions are capable of provoking.
Anyway, government measures aside, hitting the porteños has become a widespread habit in recent times.
Last week it was the turn of the governor of San Luis,
Alberto Rodríguez Saá
, who, before the quarantine was closed, used to bustle a cafe in the most exclusive shopping center in Buenos Aires, frequented by the most stale of the capital's “opulence”.
After having said months ago that "in the City of Buenos Aires they don't plant soybeans, they don't raise sheep, they don't raise cattle, except clandestine workshops, they don't have factories," he now redoubled the bet.
“
They are unbearable
, what do you want me to tell you.
The porteño is terrible
.
They all know lungas.
It is believed that they are in the first class of the Titanic, but that it does not sink.
'I travel to Europe, I return, I have the virus and suck an egg,'
"he said, in an almost academic tone, belatedly taking up the theory outlined at the beginning of the pandemic by Marcelo Saín: according to the Santa Fe Minister of Security, the "Chetos" were to blame for the arrival of the coronavirus.
Regrettable, such statements could be inscribed in a guide on
how to develop the art of gratuitous insult and deepen the rift
.
But they would not go beyond controversy.
Much more serious is when the sayings are taken into action.
Denounced and fired months ago by the vice president and her son Máximo Kirchner, the decision to withdraw funds from the City for the benefit of the Province, added to other recent measures, makes
the terms increasingly clear about where the axis of power is.
, and those of the next fight.
It also leaves Alberto Fernández further and further from the discourse of moderation.
Not to mention, of course, the one who criticized the then President, saying
“with Cristina Peronism was pathetic.
It was the party of obedience
, the one that only said yes to power ”.