Marcela Pagano had just been elected president of the Impeachment Commission. She came to suspect that the head of the ruling bloc had set a trap for her.
Pagano and Oscar Zago had not spoken for four months, after a strong argument in December. They resumed the dialogue on Saturday the 6th, when Zago sent her a message through a collaborator to tell her that she was her chosen one for the commission and that Milei had given her consent. Nobody had seen Martín Menem's email - or so they said -, which in some boxes was registered a minute before the agreed time. “He entered at 10 hours, 59 minutes and 27 seconds. Thirty-three seconds before the scandal,” an advisor to a legislator would later reveal, an aide to Menem said. The radical Fernando Carbajal was outraged: “The new Government was supposed to change this state of decay, a mistreatment that we cannot tolerate,’ he said.