06/06/2020 - 16:40
- Clarín.com
- Politics
A sentence by Santiago Cafiero to criticize Mauricio Macri was enough to reignite tensions with the opposition front Juntos por el Cambio, where they soon came out to question him and accused him of trying to "divide the Argentines."
The head of Ministers warned that the coronavirus pandemic "with Mauricio Macri ruling would have been a catastrophe" and then pondered the actions carried out by the Alberto Fernández government.
"We strengthened the health system in record time with a broken Argentina that Macri left behind. Let's remember that we had been left without a Ministry of Health," he said to reinforce his criticism against the former president and against the management of Cambiemos at the Casa Rosada.
In statements to Miter radio, the Cabinet chief acknowledged that the climate of contacts that the national government had with the opposition was " contaminated " after the denunciation of alleged illegal eavesdropping against Macri and the former authorities of the Federal Intelligence Agency ( AFI).
"What contaminates are the illegal eavesdropping , what contaminates is what we find in the AFI, what contaminates is a government that boasted of having independence of powers, of being republican and institutional, and that had a judicial table. What contaminates is that a government official before three days of taking office has gone to see a magistrate to demand that she make such and such a resolution. Those are the risks that Argentina was running, "he added.
Cafiero's criticism had an immediate effect, and leaders from the different parties that make up Together for Change came out to question him.
Even the PRO released a statement with the signatures of its authorities Patricia Bullrich, Federico Angelini, Laura Rodríguez Machado and Christian Ritondo, to come out in defense of their leader and to denounce that Cafiero's proposal is " provocation, which does not contribute to political dialogue that the government itself says to promote . "
The PRO text includes a list detailing the measures that Macri would have taken if he had had to manage the reaction of the national government to the coronavirus crisis.
"It would not have taken advantage of the pandemic to weaken institutions, evade control of Congress and seek impunity or the freedom of convicted criminals; it would not have used the pandemic as a pretext to give super powers to its Chief of Staff. We returned to being a country with no budget or cost control, a place we had already left, "said Bullrich and his political partners.
In that list, it is also stated that Macri "would have trusted more than ever in the responsibility of the Argentines and less in the state imposition" and that "he would have noticed the effects of strict isolation on other health pathologies and on employment and Argentine work, and I would have found ways to find a balance earlier. "
And he goes on to say that the former President "would have had no trouble continuing to buy food in transparent tenders at reasonable prices" and that "he would have had no trouble continuing to buy food in transparent tenders at reasonable prices."
Finally, they would have had a much less constructive opposition than the current one, which supported the tough measures when necessary. It is not unlikely that the opposition Kirchnerism would have boycotted the efforts of the national and provincial governments to contain the pandemic and design a plan. of exit ", they remarked.
The Radical Civic Union (UCR) also crossed Cafiero, through the head of the Together for Change interblock in the Chamber of Deputies, Mario Negri.
Santiago Cafiero's statements are provocative and are not up to the moment we are going through.
In this video I explain what @juntoschangear surely would not have done from the national government taking advantage of the pandemic: 👇 pic.twitter.com/Y3dPrbTGcS
" His statements are a provocation and are not up to the moment, " warned Mario Negri, radical deputy and head of the Together for Change interblock.
Negri decided to answer Cafiero with a video that he broadcast on his social networks. "We proposed to the government to work together to find a joint solution to the pandemic and they did not respond to us. In this context, I very much regret that the Chief of Staff said that Argentina would be a catastrophe if the previous government were managing this pandemic," the radical clarified.
Negri described Cafiero's statements as a "provocation" and warned him that "the current government has nothing left to get out of it" and "what you should do is have humility to work on the way out of the pandemic and you should know that a Republic is not a country of exception, where power is concentrated and the emergency is permanent. "
And also the Civic Coalition, the other force that integrates Together for Change, spoke out to repudiate the statements of the Chief of Staff.
"Mr. Chief of Staff Santiago Cafiero, instead of boasting through the media, disqualifying former President Mauricio Macri and dividing the Argentines, we demand that he fulfill - he never did - his role and constitutional mandate of coming to report to the National Congress ", demanded the deputy Maximiliano Ferraro, head of the CC.