Guido Carelli Lynch
12/29/2020 5:23 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/29/2020 5:23 PM
Before the start of the vote in the Senate, in the Government there is full confidence that the Upper House will give a half sanction and will turn into law the bill to legalize abortion, approved on December 10 in Deputies.
However, the officials of the Executive most pending of the vote prefer caution.
President
Alberto Fernández
opted for the privacy of Olivos for the previous and first hours of the vaccination operation.
A delegation of ministers will go to Congress and rule out changes between the authorities of the ruling party in Congress.
The head of state
suspended his participation
in the act to deliver police mobiles to Almirante Brown and
The poroteo continued - the tight vote in the Senate - with his closest collaborators, among whom were the Chief of Staff
Santiago Cafiero
and the Secretary General of the Presidency
Julio Vitobello
.
In the Casa Rosada they indicated that there will be a presence of ministers in Congress but they flatly ruled out that the President addresses Congress, a possibility that circulated strongly when the project for the voluntary interruption of pregnancy was approved by the Deputies.
On the contrary, the President
bet on a low profile for a day that he considers key to his administration:
the start of vaccination and the sanction of the legalization of abortion, which was a campaign promise and whose sending to Congress was delayed since March to December.
To this combo was added the treatment in Deputies of the pension calculation formula.
"(If the abortion law did not come out) I would regret it very much," said the president on Monday in an interview with Public Television, when they asked him whether a defeat would be considered "a failure."
In another unfortunate statement, the Minister of Health,
Ginés González García
, in an official transmission, bleached the president's state of mind due to the delays in the technical reports of Sputnik V for those over 60. “What the President wants with getting vaccinated is building trust.
It's what he wants.
And now he
is nervous
because the papers from the study have not arrived, ”said González García.
The mobilizations in front of Congress for the abortion debate.
Photo Emmanuel Fernández
In the morning, the president exchanged messages with the minister, the secretary of Access to Health, Carla Vizzotti, and Cafiero, who replaced him on the spot in the Conurbano.
In the Cabinet they point out that most of society wants to be vaccinated and that doubts are transmitted mainly from the media.
They argue that the Government showed faster reflexes than other countries in the region to ensure 50 million vaccines.
In the Casa Rosada they chose prudence to refer to the legalization of abortion.
Since the bill was sent to Congress, the strategy was not to confront and avoid the diatribes against opponents of legalization.
They also do not want that the possibility of Fernández politically capitalizing on the law will drive “green” opposition senators to end up abstaining or changing the vote.
Fernández got involved last week and received Salta senator Sergio “Oso” Leavy in his office, who two years ago voted against legalization and after meeting with the President, he reconsiders his vote.
Vice President Cristina Kirchner opens the Senate session where the legalization of abortion is voted.
Photo Juan Manuel Foglia.
Several ministers deny possible fractures if legal abortion is approved in the Senate.
"The strength of our Front is in diversity," said one of them.
They ensure that whatever happens,
José Mayans
will continue to preside over the Frente de Todos bloc in the Upper House.
The senator from Formosa will not only vote against the IVE but was one of the legislators who most operated against the bill sent by the Government.
“There are no plans for him to leave.
It will continue.
He expresses the vision of many people in our north ”, they explained in the Executive.
Despite the cautionary tale, the government was confident.
"We are optimistic, but this is vote by vote," explained an official very close to the President.
The Legal and Technical Secretary,
Vilma Ibarra,
learned that maxim several decades ago in a student center.
The official toasted with her collaborators in the South Room of the Casa Rosada.
Several raised their glasses with a request.
"Let it be law."
Anti-abortion groups march in front of Congress.
Photo Juano Tesone.
The author of the official project will go to the Legislative Palace together with the Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity
Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta
and the presidential advisor Dora Barrancos.
The Minister of the Interior
Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro
and the
Minister
of Health would also be part of the game.
In the midst of the tension with the Church for the legalization of abortion, the Minister of Social Development
Daniel Arroyo
met on the afternoon of this Tuesday with references from the Social Observatory of the UCA.
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