05/05/2020 - 16:55
- Clarín.com
- Politics
In a crucial week in debt negotiation, President Alberto Fernández and Vice Cristina Kirchner met again. The head of state and the former president meet in the fifth presidential with an open agenda and alone.
Fernández himself had advanced the meeting during an interview with TN this Monday, when he showed an exchange of messages that he maintained with the head of the Senate. "I tell her if she wants me to come visit her tomorrow, 'you will treat me to a cooked mate and I will leave here a little' and she says to me 'I do not prefer to go to Olivos tomorrow. Tomorrow I am there, "said the President.
The vice president's wish was fulfilled hours later. In a climate of secrecy, the vice arrived at the Olivos residence in the early afternoon. Close to both leaders indicated that the meeting is, as always between the two, an open agenda but admit that debt negotiation occupies a good part of the talks between the two.
President Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner faced each other again in person. The last meeting had been during the presentation of the Argentine offer to private creditors, along with all the governors.
According to the account from official sources, the vice president was very aware of the proposal that Economy Minister Martín Guzmán finished forging.
The meeting took shape after the public rejection of the Argentine offer by groups of creditors. Also after the numerous political and sectoral supports that the Government collected in recent days; on the part of the governors, mayors, businessmen and the CGT to the negotiation that leads the head of the economic portfolio.
This Friday expires the term of the offer that the Government made official to the SEC. The Executive could make a superior offer if it receives a wink from the creditors. "We are ready to listen and look for a common denominator," Guzmán said in a statement.
The vice president returned to Olivos after a week in which La Cámpora -Maximo Kirchner's group- was favored by new appointments in ANSES -with the displacement of Alejandro Vanoli- and the Ministry of Social Development of the Province; in addition to YPF appointments.
The former head of state - who is preparing to meet in the Upper House, after accepting some changes proposed by the opposition leaders - contributed noise in recent days in the relationship between the Government and one of its main allies in the opposition in the middle of the coronavirus crisis: Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
Cristina Kirchner targeted the head of government for appointing City Attorney Juan Bautista Mahiques for alleged pressure on judges in the cause of the memorandum of understanding by Iran. The discussion over home prisons also generated short circuits between Albertism and hard Kirchnerism. The president admitted that it would be one of the topics of the conversation. Before arriving in Olivos, the head of the Senate published a video on Twitter that explains her vision of the benefit for prisoners and emphasizes overcrowding in Buenos Aires jails.
I want to share this excellent video about the situation of prisons in the Province of Buenos Aires and the COVID-19 crisis. pic.twitter.com/vqUcuseFfX
- Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) May 5, 2020Also, he recommended listening to a press conference by Governor Axel Kicillof and his Justice Ministers, Julio Alak; and Security, Sergio Berni.
The President always denies any noise in his relationship with the vice president, who made the strategic decision to anoint him as a candidate in 2019. "We are very well," he recalled this Monday.
