08/24/2020 - 23:18
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Through a public letter, Mauricio Macri came out to deny - directly he described it as "false" - the version given by President Alberto Fernández that his predecessor had recommended to him during a private telephone conversation, in March, not to decree a quarantine for the coronavirus and "let those who have to die die."
" The version that the President has given about our conversation is false . In no way did I say the things he has related in these days," said the former president in a text published on social networks.
On Monday, after Macri's letter was known, Alberto Fernández redoubled the bet in one act. "They recommended that those who have to die die," he insisted, although without mentioning the former president.
Elisa Carrió also got into the fight: "Vulgarity and injury only consolidate Together for Change. Thank you Alberto Fernández!", The leader of the Civic Coalition tweeted this Monday afternoon.
The letter that the former president made public from abroad - he is in Zurich, Switzerland, where he arrived after spending a few days in France with his wife and youngest daughter - was known right in the midst of the growing tension between the ruling party and the opposition for the extension of the quarantine, the judicial reform, the call for an inquiry by the former private secretary of Macri and the former heads of the AFI and the recent DNU to declare mobile and fixed telephony, internet and television as an essential public service pay, among other factors.
"Dear Argentines - Macri's text entitled" The value of the presidential word "begins -: it is true that I spoke with President Fernández on March 19, before the announcement of social and compulsory isolation. I called him, to put myself at his readiness and show my support at a time of difficult decisions for the country and for the whole world. "
After denying having said what Fernández said, Macri added: "I want to remind the President that nothing is more important for a political leader - and especially for a president - than his word. The credibility of the presidential word must be cared for like a treasure ".
He continued: "Argentina needs broad and generous consensus to solve the problems it has caused for decades. Especially after the pandemic and the quarantine, which have made them deeper and more visible. I am willing to make my contribution, from the place whatever, to move in this direction. "
"But a first requirement - Macri added - to make progress in these consensuses is that the leaders are credible, that the interlocutors can trust each other's word. Without trust it is impossible to reach agreements."
In a radio interview, Fernández had given his version of that telephone. "The day after I decreed the quarantine, he (for Macri) called me and recommended that we do not quarantine , that we leave all the people on the street and that those who had to die should die," said the head of state. In that same radio note, Fernández also inflamed the opposition with another phrase: he assured that "Argentina did better with the coronavirus than with the government of Mauricio Macri."
The former president had spoken out on August 18, after the flagging across the country, against the extension of the quarantine and judicial reform, among other slogans.
This Monday afternoon, in an inauguration ceremony of a station in Pilar in which the macrista mayor of Tres de Febrero Diego Valenzuela participated, Fernández insisted with his version: "When there some people recommended that the economy not slow down, that Let society stop and let what has to fall fall, let those who have to fall ill get sick, and let those who have to die die, I preferred to preserve people's lives and health ".
At the event, the President stated: "When many told us that the economy was not starting, that public works were not moving, well, look, this is one of the 40 new train stations that we will have throughout Greater Buenos Aires" .
