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In the middle of the intern for Security, a man of confidence from Sergio Berni resigned

2020-07-29T17:01:20.923Z


This is Mario Baudry, head of the Buenos Aires Cabinet, who resigned after pointing to advisers to President Alberto Fernández for alleged "press operations".


Ignacio Ortelli

07/29/2020 - 13:38

  • Clarín.com
  • Politics

After being backed in the shadows by Vice President Cristina Kirchner and in public by Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof , in recent days the Provincial Security Minister Sergio Berni lowered his profile and the intensity of his intern with his national partner, Sabina Frederic .

In La Plata, despite the dance of names to replace it that was considered last week, no one doubts its continuity, but a man of his extreme confidence lost: it is the head of the Ministry's Cabinet, Mario Baudry  , who presented his He resigns after accusing national officials of mounting "press operations" against him with the aim of attacking the minister.

Baudry waiver according confirmed to ClarÃn high bonaerenses sources, it will be formalized in the coming hours. "It is going in the best way with Sergio. But he does not want to continue using it to hit the minister . He will return to private activity, but he will continue to contact him," sources familiar with the decision of the head of Cabinet.

Before assuming Security, Baudry practiced as a lawyer - he is a specialist in Public Finance and Tax Law - and was also linked to the media: until December he directed La Tecla, a magazine with great influence in the province of Buenos Aires .

Despite not integrating the list of officials who accompanied Berni during his time at the National Security Secretariat, Baudry had managed to become a key man in the management of the ministry and in his first stage had managed to avoid public questions. However, in late June he was embroiled in a scandal after Brandsen's secretary for Citizen Protection and Habilitations, Marcelo Castillo, denounced him for "abuse of authority", accusing him of trying to intercede so that his partner was not detained during quarantine for having been intercepted circulating without the corresponding permission.

The same, after the fact, Berni supported him. "The head of the Cabinet told me his truth, the truths are not absolute, I do not have to not believe him. All the explanations he gave me are correct," he assured. However, he warned that it was made available to the Justice: "Luckily there is a complaint. And it will be the judge who has to investigate and, if he committed a crime, he will be sanctioned accordingly", he said.

Near Berni they  emphatically denied that Baudry's departure obeys that fact . "He left because he is tired of the operations they were doing," they indicated.

The case took on special media relevance because Baudry's girlfriend is Verónica Ojeda, former partner of Diego Maradona and mother of Dieguito Fernando, the star's youngest son. In La Plata, however, they associate the commotion with the "friendly fire" that is seen in the ruling party from the internal one for Security. And they point to the versions - already officially denied - that emerged after that scandal and reported that Ojeda had been hired by the Ministry of Security. 

Those rumors, suspected near Baudry, arose from the environment of President Alberto Fernández. 

Even days ago Baudry himself put it publicly on his Twitter: "So many years working in Ezeiza with the best and you learned nothing, that you have to invent that @ Veruojeda25 works in the Ministry, help the president @alferdez to take care of the Argentines, not in organizing press operations . It is time to add up, people are having a hard time, "he wrote, in a dart aimed directly at the Quinta de Olivos.

It happens that the only national official of specific weight and close to the President who worked in the municipality governed by the Granados family is Juan Pablo Biondi, secretary of Public Communication and presidential spokesman. 

Baudry's departure coincides with a decision the minister made on Tuesday: he warned the communication team, which is under the leadership of the Cabinet, that all the police personnel who have worked in the press office for 15 years He will be relocated to perform administrative tasks in police stations , which generated strong rejection from the Buenos Aires Press Union (Si.Pre.Bo), which asked that current working conditions be maintained. 

The internal changes in his ranks do not imply that Berni is leaving his position. On Thursday, as Clarín revealed, there was a meeting in the Senate between Cristina, Kicillof and the head of the block of Deputies of the Front of All, Máximo Kirchner, in which the minister was strongly supported in the bid he maintains with Frederic .

According to interlocutors at that summit, Cristina considers Berni a "very efficient" leader in his duties and of "undoubted loyalty" . And she supported it when she had sparks, even with the current governor of Santa Cruz, Alicia Kirchner. "How can she not? She's from the first hour, like (Carlos) 'El Chino' Zannini, and she also knows," they graphed. And, far from reproaching her for her imprint and her public differences with Frederic, they stressed that she brings "a different audience" closer to space. "She was never in doubt," they insisted.

To clear up doubts, although he had already publicly endorsed it, hours after that appointment. Kicillof had another gesture: he uploaded Berni to an act with Argentine soccer leaders.

Despite having stopped his public darts, Berni maintains his public differences with Frederic. And in the last hours he added the support of a group of mayors who consider that, in order to corner his rival, the minister skimped on the number of federal troops that he sends to the Conurbano . "They are going to send us 20 gendarmes, but we don't even complain, it doesn't make sense. Alberto has to solve that," a community chief who frequently contacts the head of state regrets to Clarín. 

Source: clarin

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