Guido Carelli Lynch
11/19/2020 11:30
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 11/19/2020 11:48 AM
"Without
Cristina (Kirchner
) you can't, with her it's possible."
With this maxim, the Casa Rosada is evaluating the fate of the abortion legalization project that the Executive Branch sent to Congress on Tuesday.
They assume that the vice president
will play a central role
as the highest authority of the Senate, to order her own troops.
While not stop the rumors of loyal officials to
Alberto Fernandez
who admit that
the link
between the president and the vice
is cracked
without fluid dialogue between the
two for almost a month who pushed the draft legal termination of pregnancy in the government they offer another look.
They emphasize that
the former president was always aware
that the project would be presented.
They reject the versions that suggested that he found out on television when the Legal and Technical Secretary,
Vilma Ibarra,
-author of the project- announced it on C5N.
"Cristina is already playing, although it does not necessarily look outside," they insist.
As irrefutable proof, they point out the words of Senator
Anabel Fernández Sagasti
, whom they define as CFK's “alter ego”.
The legislator of La Cámpora and new president of the PJ of Mendoza, publicly demanded the same thing that they ask in the Rosada.
"We must not make enemies of those who think differently," he told C5N.
That is precisely the first line of the strategy that the Executive uses to join forces and turn the decriminalization of abortion into law: they want to
avoid fundamentalist positions
that alienate legislators who are not inclined to legalization but who could redirect their vote in favor of the official project.
In the same vein, they consider that it is also vital to add adherence to citizenship with
moderate arguments
focused on "
public health
" instead of the individual right of women to choose.
In the Casa Rosada they know that the head of the Senate bloc of the Frente de Todos,
José Mayans
, who already anticipated his position against legalization, is not the only member of the official bloc who would vote against it.
They discount that the Formosan senator will have an active position to unite wills to vote "no."
To counteract the opposition that Mayans embodies, they build bridges with "green" legislators.
Martín Lousteau
, from Together for Change, would be willing to add contributions that strengthen the sanction of the law.
In the Executive they do not see it with bad eyes.
They recall that when the
equal marriage law
was enacted
- another bill written by Ibarra - UCR legislators were surveyed to even "appropriate" the bill.
Finally, it was Cristina Kirchner who politically capitalized on the sanction of that law.
In the ruling party they have some doubts about what the opposition's behavior will be.
Some officials believe that the proselytizing of "
green"
legislators
from Cambiemos
could be less enthusiastic if they consider that the passage of the law favors the Executive.
On the other hand, they do not believe that the active tensions in the ruling party - such as the
appointment of the attorney
- could hinder the enactment of the law.
Come to Máximo Kirchner much more active than in 2018 to get the necessary votes.
Some voices of the ruling party
distrusted the real boost that the vice president could give to the official project.
The former president publicly acknowledged that she changed her position thanks to her daughter Florencia.
They recalled that CFK - always attentive to the symbolic dimension - carried a rosary in one of the last sessions that he presided over in the Upper House.
The same sources that provided the data also relativized it: it could be a tribute to the day of the Virgin of San Nicolás that was celebrated on September 25.
Rosary beads.
The detail of the rosary of the vice president that generated intrigues in the ruling party.
The sending of a project of the Executive will serve to add wills among the undecided.
However, there will be some exceptions.
Congressman
Eduardo Valdés
, a personal friend of the President and a former ambassador to the Vatican, let Fernández know that he will not campaign against it, but would not support the legalization project.
After the sanction of the law for the
self
-
cultivation of medicinal cannabis
and with the consummation of the legal abortion project, the Executive denies that there is a deliberate strategy to win the agenda with progressive legislation or the expansion of rights.
In the ruling party they know that the accounts regarding the legal interruption of pregnancy are open.
However, they are not afraid of defeat.
"
The defeat would have been not to present the project
", they affirm in the environment of the President.
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