Guido Carelli Lynch
12/31/2020 12:31 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/31/2020 12:31 PM
In the presidential privacy they consider December
29 and 30
as the most important days of Alberto Fernández's administration.
In less than 24 hours,
the coronavirus
vaccination campaign
began
;
Deputies sanctioned
the pension calculation reform
in a tight way and against some forecasts
and the Senate made
legal abortion law
.
The officials closest to the President consider that, despite the rise in infections, the Government ended the year in the best way.
Enthusiasm possessed the head of state who celebrated with his ministers with his
own 20 truths
.
On Wednesday, first thing in the morning, the president shared a
chat
with the
WhatsApp Cabinet group made up of
all the ministers and some of his closest collaborators.
"Read carefully what follows.
These are OUR TWENTY TRUTHS",
is the heading of the lengthy message.
"He wrote it and sent it," said one of the president's most trusted officials.
Fernández, as highlighted in his environment, usually writes his own speeches with the collaboration of the advisor, in charge of the Argentina 2030 program,
Alejandro Grimson,
and the Secretary for Strategic Affairs,
Gustavo Beliz
.
The President thus inexorably alluded to the
20 Peronist truths
, which
Juan Domingo Perón
pronounced on October 17, 1950. It was to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the popular mobilization that forced the government of
Edelmiro Farrell
to release the former Secretary of Labor and vice-president, the date that gave birth to the Justicialista movement.
Fernández, who on March 21 could become the
new president of the Peronist party
at the national level, appealed more to emotion than to party liturgy.
“We ended the most difficult year in our memories with
very important achievements
.
But they were not the only ones.
Realize what we did in a world in which everything known became insufficient.
Congratulations to everyone.
We did it, "concluded Fernández at the end of his message.
Strong praise for a cabinet questioned by his vice.
President Alberto Fernández, Santiago Cafiero, Sergio Massa and Máximo Kirchner together with the deputies of the Frente de Todos, on Wednesday in Olivos.
Photo: Presidency
The head of state recalled some of the most outstanding points and cited the chat in question, during the
meeting in Olivos
with
Sergio Massa
,
Máximo Kirchner
and more than 60 deputies from the ruling bloc in Congress.
Fernández made a review of the
social management
of his Government, which included some
invoice passes to the previous administration
.
He underlined the implementation of the food card;
the increases for retirees -which, strictly speaking, and despite what they say in the Government, were below inflation and were clearly lower than those corresponding to suspended mobility-;
for AUH beneficiaries;
ATPs;
the IFE and the enhancement of the health system in the midst of a pandemic, which he said "had been beaten."
In
economic matters
, he celebrated the
restructuring of the debt with
private
bondholders
and the multiplication of zero-rate loans for SMEs and the middle class.
Despite the fall of 3.6 million jobs in the second quarter due to the pandemic and the quarantine, Fernández highlighted the imposition of double severance pay to discourage layoffs.
He also defended the new moratorium law.
Among the battery of measures that benefited the middle sectors, he also mentioned the rate freeze and the declaration of the Internet and mobile telephony as essential services, measures that part of the industry in the sector resists.
Meanwhile, in the
institutional area, he
defended sending the judicial reform to Congress;
the treatment of the new law of public ministry and the reforms in the Council of the Magistracy.
So far,
the three projects are bogged down
in the Legislative Palace and the Government is preparing to push them in 2021.
The last two points of the President's truths explain the
state of mind
that reigns in recent days in La Rosada, thanks to the beginning of vaccination and the legalization of abortion.
"Given the widespread disbelief, we began in December the vaccination process against COVID 19, which will be the largest in our history," he says.
Finally, he referred to the
sanction of legal abortion
.
“Against those who said 'this is not the time' we declare abortion safe, legal and free.
This is how we made a better society, expanding women's rights and preserving their public health ”, celebrated Fernández.
The full message:
The following is the full message that the President transmitted to his ministers.
1.
With the ALIMENTAR card we take care of those who suffered from hunger.
In our Argentina, in the midst of a pandemic, no one was short of a plate of food.
We comply.
2.
With the AUH increases we help the neediest families.
We comply.
3.
We preserve their income for retirees, even setting a new model for the mobility of their assets and we returned the free remedies they require.
We comply.
4.
Faced with the pandemic, and in record time, we set up a battered health system.
Faced with this state of affairs, no Argentine lacked the medical assistance he needed.
We comply.
5.
To preserve the sources of registered work we created the ATP.
At the same time we promoted public works to help the economy not stop.
We comply.
6.
We avoid layoffs with double compensation and today employment is beginning to recover.
We comply.
7.
We lowered inflation by 20 percentage points, even though inflation should be our main combat objective.
We comply.
8.
In the midst of the pandemic, we order our debt with private creditors.
When the decade that we began passes, we will see that Argentina saved 38,000 million of debt.
We comply.
9.
Thanks to this negotiation, we avoid paying 7,000 million dollars in interest this year that is ending.
We comply.
10.
We help the middle sectors and independent professionals in the midst of a pandemic with credits at a rate of 0 that will begin to pay next year.
We comply.
11.
Electricity and gas rates were frozen preserving service while the pandemic raged.
Cellular telephony, Internet and cable TV are today public services with preserved rates for users.
We comply.
12.
With the IFE we bring resources to those most in need.
With the Solidarity Contribution, we require help in the emergency of those who have the most.
We comply.
13. We
enacted the knowledge economy law and extended the frontiers of technology while creating thousands of jobs.
We comply.
14. We
preserve indebted companies by granting them moratoriums that prevented the State from suffocating them.
We comply.
15
.
We are making progress in improving the judicial institution by promoting reforms in the federal jurisdiction and in the functioning of the Court, Public Ministry and Council of the Magistracy.
We comply.
16
.
We regain our role in the international concert.
We were in the G 20 fixing our positions.
We are decisively involved in the preservation of democracy and human rights in Latin America.
With Evo Morales, we set an example to the world that allowed Bolivia to recover its institutions.
We comply.
17.
We put our investigators back in the same place they always should have been.
Science and Technology today are a Ministry.
We comply.
18.
In the midst of the greatest global crisis, we put into orbit a satellite that provides us with data for production and the climate, which was developed entirely in Argentina.
We comply.
19.
Faced with widespread disbelief, in December we began the vaccination process against COVID 19, which will be the largest in our history.
20.
Against those who said "this is not the time" we declare abortion safe, legal and free.
Thus we made a better society, expanding women's rights and preserving their public health.
