Eduardo Paladini
11/08/2020 7:36 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 11/08/2020 7:36 PM
On November 9, 2012, the cover of
Clarín was
titled:
"Gigantic protest against the Government
.
"
And then he expanded, on what he defined as a
"Historic mobilization throughout the country"
: "Hundreds of thousands of people marched peacefully in the main cities. The Obelisk was the nucleus of a protest that had replicas even abroad. The people rejected re-election, insecurity, high inflation and corruption. "
That mobilization, which came (as now) after other close ones, was perhaps the best parameter of the growing rejection of the figure of Cristina Kirchner and her way of governing.
Only in the City
, it was estimated that some
700,000 people
came out that day to demonstrate.
Some
30,000
did the same in the surroundings of the
Quinta de Olivos
.
The antecedent, powerful, undoubtedly attractive, was remembered in the previous one by dozens of citizens who called for the new protest:
# 8N, second part
.
The result, predictably more limited, much more limited, leaves interesting points for analysis.
In the march in the Buenos Aires Center, there were posters against the candidate for attorney, who supports a sector of Together for Change.
Photo Germán García Adrasti.
The new version of # 8N, in the context of a pandemic, reflected in the street the presence of the
most radicalized sectors of the opposition
.
The main slogan of the call already raised limits: the rejection of the Supreme Court ruling on the transfer of judges pointed out by the former president contains a debate of undoubted institutional importance, but that could sound alien to a society burdened by the simultaneous crises of health and economy.
This was already felt in the previous hours on social networks, a good parameter to anticipate this type of claims.
The circulation of messages and hashtags
was lower than in other recent marches
and came from places with a strong anti-K presence, such as the Cordovan macrismo.
In the Obelisk, the epicenter of the claim,
posters were mixed and even scenarios with different interlocutors coexisted
.
Most of the messages emphasized the lack of Justice and called for "enough corruption."
But the opening of classrooms was also demanded and pro-life doctors took the opportunity to ask that no progress be made with the legalization of abortion.
Hundreds of cars on July 9, at the epicenter of the new protest against the Government.
Photo Germán García Adrasti.
It was a smaller march also compared to other recent ones, such as that of October 12.
That repetition perhaps explains part of the decline
, even though public opinion numbers continue to show a growing rejection of the Government.
This context could work as a
double alert
:
1) To the opposition, on the times that it must manage so as not to lose effectiveness in the claim.
Those marches in 2012, but also those prior to last year's electoral defeat, gave Juntos por el Cambio
a tool of political strength unthinkable decades ago
: fighting the streets against Peronism and using the mobilizations as a retaining wall.
Under the new management, it averages almost one demonstration per month.
2) To the Government, on the risk of minimizing protests and
evaluating social humor only by that street parameter
, when even the polls managed by the ruling party reflect a constant deterioration since April.