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Fernández says things that are difficult to understand

2020-07-11T07:09:16.911Z


He enters his eighth month without resolving the relationship with Cristina. Set up a stage for unity and screw it up with haters.


07/10/2020 - 21:26

  • Clarín.com
  • Opinion

The Fernández government enters its eighth month. Quarantine is about to end its fourth month or to start the fifth, depending on how you look at it. It is not a date of celebrations, but a date for some balance at the end. Out of the havoc caused by the pandemic, the first is called default and is still pending . The second is called the economic plan and it is still pending .

Fernández says things that are difficult to understand or understand why he says them or who he wants to convince. The same president who has no economic plan and walks the brink of default has just proposed to change capitalism . He had previously said that he and the Mexican López Obrador were the only progressives in the region who resisted to save the world. After López Obrador's agreement with Trump, he was left alone: ​​he hardly wants to continue saying the same thing.

López Obrador may speak similar to a progressive but he is a pragmatist who looks at GDP and employment and how much depends on the United States. It is no coincidence that this week he visited and praised Trump by signing an extension of the free trade agreement with the United States. It was a gift to Trump in the middle of the electoral campaign. Behind that strategy, López Obrador decided to bear the cost of humiliation by the wall and to stop defending illegal Mexicans living in the United States and to block the passage of Central American immigrants.

When Fernández talks about foreign policy, he speaks for the Christianity with which he lives and struggles all the time . There are two agendas in your government. Today's own is debt and pandemic. The other is Cristina's or the one that Cristina imposes on her and shares with the government: free her and her children from corruption trials, leave former prison officials behind and attack critical journalists . Fernández's agenda makes water when Cristina invokes hers or when Cristinistas assert Cristina's. A typical case: Berni, who confronts Fernández with Cristina's shield. An example in reverse happened in 2003. The then Governor Felipe Solá appointed Juan José Alvarez to Berni without consulting President Kirchner, who took it as a challenge. Alvarez had to leave after two months.

With the pandemic, Fernández accumulated considerable political capital that with the eternal quarantine he is losing or has lost to a great extent. It is clear that Fernández and Cristina want to polarize with Macri. Also, they seek to divide the opposition. Fernández added Alfonsín as ambassador and calls Larreta a friend. Set up a stage for unity and screw it up with haters . Suddenly, Gutiérrez and Lázaro Báez and Cristina's management appear, and sometimes Fernández's own help to unite the opposition, which was able to finish the mandate and ended it with a harvest of votes that feed the possibility of returning to power. They are not the remains of a shipwreck like Alfonsín's radicalism of 89 or that of delarruismo in 2001. What other problem does Fernández have? The same that Macri had: the harassment of the economic crisis and the anger of the people.

Source: clarin

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