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The real plans of Roberto Lavagna and the pirouettes of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta between egos and internal anger

2020-11-08T10:44:42.517Z


What is going through the economist's head today. Can you be a minister? The strategy of the mayor of Buenos Aires and the range that goes from Macri to Manes and from Stolbizer to Carrió.


Santiago Fioriti

11/07/2020 10:57 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 11/07/2020 23:50

At "La Clo", a boutique cabin dominated by the Aberdeen Angus cattle breed, located in Máximo Paz, in the Cañuelas district, political rumors arrive slowly, but they arrive.

The last piece of information received by its owner,

Roberto Lavagna

, is that

Alberto Fernández

- encouraged by a sector of the establishment with whom he has flirted again in recent weeks - could tempt him to command a powerful ministry, similar to the one he led after the cataclysm of the 2001, when he was Minister of Eduardo Duhalde.

The version, if you remember, comes from the electoral victory of the Frente de Todos.

What was modified was the setting.

The transcended ones ran in some circles of power from the jump of the blue dollar -which came to trade at three times that inherited by the current administration-, from the permanent instability of the economy and, above all, since Cristina requested a sharp turn in management before greater evils are to be lamented. 


In that 35-hectare cabin, which is his place in the world and where he spent the quarantine, Lavagna has received messages from the President since March.

In general they are to invite you to Olivos.

Now they haven't seen each other for a month.

There is a reason.

It would not be appropriate for Alberto to tell the businessmen again that he and Lavagna think the same thing.

The differences between them widened.

The appointments in the presidential Fifth were always displayed as auspicious.

But, over time, the former minister's collaborators have let it transpire that Fernández has too oscillating behavior.

Who listens and agrees to some advice and then ends up doing little or nothing.

Lavagna also altered his vision on the behavior that the crisis could have.

To put it wisely, it

is less optimistic than it was a few months ago.

In this context, are there chances that you will be convinced to become a minister?

No

.

For a few days there are new reasons.

The economist is already preparing his own army to confront the ruling party in the 2021 legislative elections

.

To the ruling party and the macrismo.

The famous and so far always frustrating third way.

The Federal Consensus coalition, in electoral terms, is back.

So it was decided at lunch on Tuesday at his farm.

The host spoke to the former socialist governor Miguel Lifschitz, one of his main allies in his last proselytizing adventure, last year, when he fought for the presidency and was very far behind, behind Fernández and Mauricio Macri.

In the privacy of the conversation, Lavagna faced the rumors, although he denied that there had been an offer.

"

Those who won have to govern; we lost. This is democracy,"

he ignored.

The discomfort of Lavagnism with Kirchnerism is not so recent.

He was born in the Chamber of Deputies, where they believe that Sergio Massa worked to break the Federal Consensus bloc, and he moved little by little to Olivos.

Lavagna advised, and the President himself made it public, that there could be no break in the relationship with the vice president.

That the bond had to be taken care of.

The Lavagnists, however, make it clear that she can't be blamed when things don't work out.

The one with the baton is the president. 

Happy coincidence with the Instituto Patria

. "Everyone knew what an alliance with Cristina meant," they agreed at lunch on Tuesday.

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, the head of government who aspires to be a presidential candidate.

The rearming of Federal Consensus could be a stone in the shoe for Together for Change, whose electoral machinery began to move.

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta was in charge of this machinery.

He faces an obstacle course with a first and decisive stop in 2021. The mayor wants to expand the space and run it to the center.

He dreams of incorporating new figures from the hand of a dialogue discourse and far from hatred.

Cute dreams.

Except that at each step he runs into anger and very close actors who deepen the rift.

This week was a sample.

He had to open it with an apology for the photo at Elisa Carrió's house.

Mauricio Macri, the entire sector of the purest macrismo and many radicals reproached him for having decided to take sides in favor of Daniel Rafecas' statement to the Attorney General without raising it beforehand in a discussion with all the actors in the space.

Larreta said that the photo was misinterpreted, that the appointment was agreed before and that Rafecas was hardly spoken of.

He failed to say, and he would not have been untrue, that Carrió waited for him with a cake to celebrate his 55th birthday, which had been the day before.

Macri, who is at odds with Carrió,

did not lack the

desire to mock his ally's candid explanations.

The pirouettes of the head of Government begin to be risky.

Now he is the one who has to manage spirits and his relationship with the Nation, which is another axis of internal disputes.

Before he looked up and I was there, today he is alone

, Macri often says in his meetings.

Those who visit the former president in his offices in Olivos or in his new home in Acassuso say that their only concern is that the opposition win in 2021 and return to power in 2023. What began to be done to the idea that their role is to be behind the scenes.

The parade of leaders through their offices is intense.

One of them brought him a gift book: "The man who loved dogs", by Leonardo Padura.

On Wednesday, Rodríguez Larreta took another step in its construction.

He shared a ceremony commemorating the 106th anniversary of the birth of Rogelio Frigerio with leaders whom he hopes to add sooner rather than later to his front.

He called for an end to the rift and apocalyptic speeches.

A melody that the guests expected.


Among them were the neuroscientist and best seller Facundo Manes, who in 2017 was one step away from being a candidate on the Maria Eugenia Vidal ballot;

the center-left Margarita Stolbizer, who speaks privately with Larreta and Vidal but who will say the day she gives an interview that Macri's presidential administration was a disaster;

and the center-right Ricardo López Murphy, once a partner of Macri, and today one of his harshest critics.

There was also Senator Martin Lousteau, the last radical.

It was not, as can be seen, a platform that lacked egos.

Nor of their own projects, always great.

Whoever did not want to be president wants to be

.

Larreta believes that he will be able to deal with all of them.

Negotiate, negotiate;

closed, it has nothing.

Nor is the debate closed in the opposition about what its members will do if the president summons them to negotiate a series of points to discuss in Congress, which

could go hand in hand with the election of the Attorney General, according to a series of underground conversations by the last days

.

Macri's first public reaction was ambiguous.

That tweet after Cristina's letter seemed to anticipate a call that had not yet been made.

If they are called, Rodríguez Larreta and Vidal are willing to collaborate.

Carrió doubts, but he would do so out of fear that the climate will become rarefied and some type of social violence will be unleashed.

The radicals are divided.

The hard wing of macrismo is much more distrustful.

They all move with leaden feet.

The horror unites them: to be swallowed by the Peronist intern

.


Source: clarin

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