With his criticism of the City, Fernández aligns with the offensive of his vice and Christianity against Larreta

Guido Carelli Lynch

08/05/2020 - 19:57

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The opposition's closed and resounding support for the government for the debt restructuring was an interval of peace and consensus in the midst of a succession of short circuits between the ruling party and the main opposition force. In this context, President Alberto Fernández reiterated this Wednesday that in the City there is "no more place" to attend to older adults .

The episode adds to the responses of two radical governors during the weekend, the rejection of Juntos por el Cambio to judicial reform and criticism of Interior Minister Wado de Pedro and Vice President Cristina Kirchner to Buenos Aires management. At the Casa Rosada they minimize crossings.

The President again pointed out alleged deficiencies in the City's health system during the opening ceremony of the new Bicentennial Hospital in the Buenos Aires town of Ituzaingó, which he headed virtually from Olivos.

“This is so that our older adults who today become ill with Covid in the City and have to be cared for in the Province because in the City there is no more place . Know that we are guaranteeing the attention you are requiring at this time, "said the head of state.

Axel Kicillof had expressed himself in the same direction five days before, during the act that he shared with the President and the Head of Government Horacio Rodríguez Larreta to communicate the new stage of quarantine in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. "15% of PAMI affiliates who are interned in the Province are from Buenos Aires," said the Buenos Aires governor, who took those data to the previous meeting held by the three.

Larreta did not answer. He barely outlined a justification for the figures taught by the President, who stressed that the Capital is the district with the most cases in Argentina. "It is the highest in the country, given that by far the City is the area with the highest density and this virus is spread by proximity," he said.

And it won't say more. The Buenosairean Executive wants to avoid friction with the Province and the Nation in the middle of the pandemic out of necessity or out of conviction. Low, its officials point out that the President "is misinformed . "

“PAMI is a national social work. Almost a third of PAMI of the City have an agreement with the public sector and the other two thirds have with the private sector. It does not mean that there is no place in the Capital, ”the Buenos Aires Health Minister Fernán Quirós said with more diplomacy in an interview with Miter radio .

The City's medical report included an underlined number on Wednesday. "Of a total of 2,431 cases attended yesterday (by Tuesday) in the City's public system, 1,073 are non-residents of the City, " said the official information.

In the national cabinet there are those who suggest that Quirós does not refer to the private system, because - they point out - it would be closer to saturation than the public one. In the environment of the Buenosairean minister those versions deny. They point out that private therapy units are 70 percent occupied , just 8 percent more than the City's public system.

The President's words came a day after the president denied any noise between the two jurisdictions. "With Horacio Rodríguez Larreta I am going to debate politically when the electoral moment arrives, not now, and surely with Gerardo Morales , with the governor of Mendoza, with the governor of Corrientes, surely we will be at odds in the next elections, but now I have nothing to debate ”, he had said in an interview with C5N.

Outside of the microphone, City officials are more emphatic. “Each social work decides which are its effectors. It is an administrative decision of PAMI ”, they highlight. 

The President's signal came four days after Wado de Pedro complained on Twitter about the actions of the City police during the march for the anniversary of the disappearance of Santiago Maldonado. "After several anti-quarantine marches in which journalists and mobile phones were even attacked without a single police officer from the City appearing, today we saw the repression of Maldonado's relatives and organizations that remembered the anniversary of his death," said the minister. . Cristina Kirchner went further, endorsed the words of the leader of La Cámpora (a group that he shares with the head of PAMI Luana Volnovich ) and underlined the differences between the national government and the city of Buenos Aires. "Wado is right: For the City government, not all citizens are equal," wrote the vice president.

It is not the first time that the former president publicly charges Larreta. He had already associated it with the alleged pressures on the judges of the now Buenos Aires attorney, Juan Bautista Mahiques . 

Tension with the City over security was minimized after a talk by Deputy Chief Diego Santilli with National Minister Sabina Frederic . Near Larreta they highlight that in the anti-quarantine march, three people were arrested who attacked journalists and during the demonstration on Saturday by Maldonado, thirteen. "In both cases they were released by the Justice within a few hours," they point out.

Near the interior minister, they minimize short circuits and rule out that there has been any type of coordination between de Pedro and the vice president. "It has to do with his personal history and his commitment to human rights organizations," they said. De Pedro had received Larreta alone on Friday in Rosada, who presented him with his plan to reactivate the economy in the City when the pandemic gave way and that the head of government expects to revolve around construction, thanks to the lower cost of construction. relative costs. On the first floor of the Rosada, meanwhile, they filed for now the plans to take away a partnership point from the City. 

The crossings with the City were not the only ones of the Executive with opposition governors in recent days, after the Government sent the judicial reform bill to the Senate, which Together for Change rejected as a whole. Mendoza and radical Rodolfo Suarez described as " inaccurate assessments ", the numbers of infected in Mendoza that the President had presented on Friday in Olivos. On Sunday, his co-religionist, the Corrientes Gustavo Valdés  had decided not to abide by the DNU that prohibits social gatherings throughout the country. On Tuesday, after talking to national officials, he backed off. "It was smart. He is next to Chaco, if he had a flare-up, they would blame him, ”they reasoned in the government.