02/25/2020 - 18:55
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The government is reluctant to name the biochemist and ultra militant K Federico Bernal as the controller of the gas regulator (ENARGAS) as Kirchnerism wants, official sources confirmed to Clarin . Bernal, who directs the so-called Observatory of Energy, Technology and Infrastructure for Development (OETEC), is a fanatic advocate of the energy policy of former Planning Minister Julio De Vido, who has been technically questioned and, also, is investigated in various cases for allegations of corruption .
Bernal, a few months before the change of government in 2015, wrote a book together with De Vido on energy policy K with a prologue by Cristina Kirchner. The printing of 10,000 copies of the book was put in the account of the state-owned company Nucleoeléctrica Argentina SA (NASA) . The resistance comes from the chemically pure sector of albertismo.
When he assumed the government of Mauricio Macri he decided to freeze the payment 1,689,000 pesos to publisher Planeta for Bernal's book and opened an administrative summary to investigate what had happened.
The book is titled "Nestor and Cristina Kirchner: planning and federalism in action" and its cover is illustrated with two embraced penguins. Currently, it can be found in the balance tables of the bookstores on Corrientes Avenue. In his blog, Bernal described Clarín , La Nación and other media notes as "communicational terrorism" and sustained unfounded national and international conspiracy theories as promoters of the causes in which De Vido is convicted or prosecuted.