Nicolás Wiñazki
07/18/2020 - 21:23
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The week passed in which it became clearer that President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Fernández can push their political differences to the limit. Only time, the long term, will tell if that tension ends in a fracture of the Front of All. This last scenario is ruled out by official sources representing the Quinta de Olivos and the Instituto Patria, the headquarters of operations K. But none of the officials, legislators, mayors and governors consulted by Clarín denied that the relationship between the Fernández Today is going through its worst moment. They do not speak.
The facts are the facts. In few countries in the world can you find a more brutal example of how a power dispute between a Vice President and the President is explained as it happened here. The official intern became irrefutable thanks to microblogging. Twitter
On July 12, Cristina Fernández used that social network to criticize Alberto Fernández. She did it with 226 characters and a link to a newspaper article. Thus: "The political conduct of economic power." Zaiat today at @ Pagina12. The best review I have read in a long time. Without subjectivities, without anecdotes. In times of pandemic, essential reading to understand and not make mistakes. "
The praised note is an analysis where the direction taken by the management of the Casa Rosada, today simply Olivos, was valued very negatively due to the isolation that confined the head of the Executive in the official residence. One of the best friends of national politics that Alberto Fernández has assured this newspaper that the President felt that these 226 characters were a limit that he did not want to let go. "A milestone," explained the source.
The presidential sin, according to his vice: bringing together representatives of the business community, banks, and even workers on an Independence Day event. Although only of the members in the CGT. The CTA, by Hugo Yasky, was not invited to that summit: another point of contention.
"The President got tired of examining Cristina for everything he does or says," says one of the most influential men in the ruling party. After the vice-presidential tweet, a public letter followed, and two interviews, in which the head of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, questioned several of the last presidential actions, as if her body were a vector capable of redirecting the internal of the government party . "Who's in charge, Fernández?" , Bonafini was encouraged to question. The Fernández mentioned is Alberto, of course. Cristina often uses "Hebe" as her spokesperson.
Fernández (Alberto) diplomatically returned the attack. And also harshly.
When the conflict was mounting, perhaps even more virulently and expanding in the secrecy of power, a minister, the Minister of Defense, Agustín Rossi, marked with another tweet the difference of this new public discussion: "From my position as a militant, with respect, I tell my colleagues that today the most important task is to bank Alberto. With heart and head. For history and for the future. Simple and forceful. "
Simple and forceful.
It is better to list some of the facts of this plot that, although they may seem minor, are not analyzed in this way by their own protagonists, as Clarín was able to reconstruct thanks to qualified sources from the Frente de Todos. Some of these signs were not so evident for those who do not make politics a profession, always according to the consultations with those who promoted them and who only agree to speak to journalism if the anonymity of the sources is guaranteed.
Alberto Fernández admitted in an interview that he had been wrong to promote the expropriation of the cereal company Vicentin. The plan was an idea of Cristina Fernández and had become the only course on a government agenda monopolized by the Covid-19 pandemic.
After a virtual meeting between the President and the parliamentary opposition, the "Cristinista" national senator Anabel Fernández Sagasti (another surname Fernández adds to this story) insisted: "The expropriation of Vicentin is an instrument regarding the ultimate goal, the objective central, which is that the company does not collapse ... ", the always powerful voice of Bonafini seems to continue sounding with an echo:" Who is in charge, Fernández? ".
In the same interview in which he regretted Vicentin's expropriation, Fernández spoke of other issues, such as the government project to reform the Judiciary. As in passing, he remarked that for him the discussion about the possible increase in the number of members of the Supreme Court was a "minor issue".
It is a matter of absolute relevance for Fernández (Cristina), who seeks some political guarantees in the instance in which the legal end of the cases in which she is accused of corruption will be decided. The lawyer Raúl Zaffaroni, the highest court judge, explained yesterday in a radio interview that the Court must have "fifteen judges" and that it must be divided into "five specialized chambers". Zaffaroni advises Fernández (Cristina).
After the exhibition in which he announced the new phase of isolation due to the Covid-19, Fernández (Alberto) returned to detach himself from the most radicalized sector of the Frente de Todos. When asked by the press, he said that "they always accused me of being a dialogist, and I love it . "
In power they add other gestures that would go in the same direction. One of them was that among the governors who spoke in the Quinta de Olivos was the president of Jujuy, Gerardo Morales. He is considered by "Christianity" as an intolerable leader: they accuse him of being the ideological author of the arrest of the leader Milagro Sala. And not only that.
In the PJ allied to Fernández (Alberto), another "breakthrough" phrase said that day by his boss stands out: it was when he said that the mayors of Buenos Aires call him often to raise the problems caused by the pandemic. Next to him was the governor of that province, Axel Kiciloff. I just watched.
But Fernández went further and pointed out that one of the communal chiefs with whom he converses frequently is with that of Mar del Plata, Guillermo Montenegro. He is the one who beat in the elections in that district one of the benchmarks of the K group, La Cámpora, the current head of the ANSeS, Fernanda Raverta .
Originally from a port city, official sources say that she felt annoyed at what she considered to be the lack of resolution of a labor dispute by the Minister of Labor, Claudio Moroni , a close friend of Fernández (Alberto). In La Cámpora they accused Moroni of having delayed compulsory conciliation in a labor conflict that paralyzed fishing activity.
The Undersecretary of Fisheries is Carlos Liberman, also from La Cámpora. That strike was resolved on Friday night after a meeting between the employers' chambers and the unions. A sector of the officials of the Ministry of Labor, engaged in the political activism of labor lawyers, is confronted in this space with labor worker Héctor Recalde. Along with his son, Senator Mariano Recalde , he is very close to Fernández (Cristina).
In the "Homeland" Moroni is not forgiven for having accepted that business groups, such as Techint, one of the most important multinationals in the country, have been accepted as a beneficiary of the ATP plan, which freed state funds so that the companies could pay salaries of your employees. The sources agree: the official whom the vice most whips, however, would be the head of the Cabinet, Santiago Cafiero .
It caught the attention of government officials and opponents, for example, how long it took the vice took to get up from her chair of the Senate when Cafiero spoke before the Lower House for the first time. An instant. Another fact among many who fuel a dispute over the position he occupies.
Last Thursday, the head of the K block in the Chamber of Deputies, Máximo Kirchner, met with the President in Olivos. Part of that talk would have had as a debate a note that Kirchner attributed to Cafiero as a source. That article told the government's position in this open-ended fight. Cafiero praised this ex-president in an extraordinary way this Saturday. He said that if the government were a football team, "Alberto Cristina would be 9 and number 10" .
In recent days, the alleged change in foreign policy towards Venezuela also entered the official debate, after the State, before the UN, joined in the criticism for the lack of guarantees in the human rights of Venezuelans and there was a call for "free elections" in that country. Fernández (Alberto) later explained to the sports rapporteur Víctor Hugo Morales that he had not moved from what he previously thought of Caracas. But Sergio Massa, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, spoke: "Without a doubt, in Venezuela there is a dictatorship."
It is true, Massa followed a coherence in his speech on Venezuelan politics.
Did you speak why yes?
No. They assure sources of the oficialismo.
