From 'unanimous consensus' to the attempt to share the political costs

Guido Carelli Lynch

01/08/2021 21:56

• Clarín.com

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Updated 01/08/2021 21:56

The idea that there was a

unanimous consensus

between the governors and the President to limit the night and mitigate the contagion of Covid-19 was blurred with the passing of the hours, after

Alberto Fernández

led a virtual meeting of three hours with 20 leaders provincial.

The differences - perhaps minor, for now - widened in the heat of the rift.

The Government seeks to share the political cost of unpleasant decisions and add arguments in the public debate.

In the Executive they recognized that there were some discrepancies with the governors, but they limited the objections to the beginning of the prohibitions

, from 22,23 or 24 to 6?

In the Casa Rosada they insisted on rejecting the versions that said that the Government backed down in its eagerness to translate a decree that would force the provinces to submit to a night quarantine.

However, tougher measures and other legal elements were considered to the

simple decree that the President signed

.

The option of a DNU lost force so as not to interfere with the Chamber Commission of Congress in the midst of the

extraordinary

sessions

.

The differences were more public than expected.

The leaders of three of the five most populous districts distanced themselves from official politics.

The head of the Buenos Aires Government

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta

, the Cordovan Governor

Juan Schiaretti

and the Mendoza

Rodolfo Suárez,

emphasized their differences over the coincidences.

Schiaretti said that it will remain the same, but -as they remember in the Rosada- locals are already forced to close at 1. Rodríguez Larreta will force bars and restaurants to finish earlier, but will not limit night-time circulation.

A permanent interlocutor of the President assumes that the head of government did what he does best: differentiate himself.

He did it at each new stage of the toughest quarantine (when he always sought to show a hopeful sign - of openness - towards the future) and he repeated it now.

Much harder than Rodríguez Larreta was the

statement from Together for Change

, which - perhaps in another act of differentiation - the Buenos Aires Executive ignored.

The mayor of Hurlingham and presidential shipowner in Greater Buenos Aires,

Juan Zabaleta

, answered the main opposition force on social media.

“It would be good if Juntos por el Comunicado stops tribunals and collaborates a little.

They go out in droves to criticize measures that were not even announced!

Stop politicizing the pandemic, "he said.

The President replied to his comment on his Twitter profile and invited him to breakfast.

The rift looks as vigorous as the pandemic.

With polls in hand, the opposition questions the presidential authority.

Fernández, meanwhile, delegated to

Santiago Cafiero

the communication of an uncomfortable decision.

In the Interior Ministry, meanwhile, they distanced themselves and pointed out that

Wado de Pedro

did not work on the decree, as reported by spokesmen for the Presidency.

From the Nation the focus was placed on young people;

in the province a minister with direct dialogue with

Cristina Kirchner

objected that they had not been summoned.

In the morning, in Olivos, while Zabaleta was telling him about his plans for the extension of an industrial park, the President anticipated part of his plan.

The Government will not impose a national quarantine, but it will control that the districts manage according to the parameters dictated by the decree.

In the Casa Rosada they trust the responsibility of the governors, but they maintain that these variables will serve to

give and win the public discussion

if necessary.

"If Córdoba continues like this, it will have to do something, although Schiaretti now says otherwise," they

argue.

Close to the President they point out the same as in October, when Fernández wanted to

replicate the health management model

that he had applied in the AMBA to the rest of the provinces.

"The costs and the political responsibility of the pandemic are shared", they affirmed then and repeat now.

Meanwhile, they embrace the vaccination operation - the largest so far in the region, as Cafiero stressed - a scenario with classes in March and the economic recovery.