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VIP vaccination: the Government now seeks to minimize the damage of the scandal

2021-02-21T21:22:21.820Z


This Monday the minister will be received by Santiago Cafiero, while the President begins his visit to Mexico. Reinforcements to the vaccination plan and economic agenda.


Federico Mayol

02/21/2021 17:29

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 02/21/2021 5:54 PM

When this Monday morning Santiago Cafiero receives Carla Vizzotti in his office, the Government will begin to try to leave behind the scandal over the VIP vaccination set up in the Ministry of Health - revealed by

Clarín

- that ended the career of Ginés González García.

"We need to advance with the vaccination plan and recover the economic agenda,"

reasoned this Sunday at the Chief of Staff.

The announcement of the kickoff from the Economic and Social Council on Friday morning, a multisectoral call with sectors that even fight harshly with the ruling party, and that Alberto Fernández hoped to squeeze through the media throughout the weekend, was sold out before The President will finish walking the few meters that separate the Kirchner Cultural Center from the Casa Rosada.

And the agenda was completely crossed by the Vip vaccination scandal in the Ministry of Health, the most serious institutional crisis since the beginning of the administration. 

For Gustavo Béliz, the secretary of Strategic Affairs and head of the movement, which had ended 2020 with frank disappointment at the administration's departure, the scandal at the Ministry of Health was, for example, a formidable blow.

The same for Cafiero, who inherited the sympathy for the expelled minister because of the bond with his grandfather.

With Fernández traveling through Mexico, a tour that seeks not only to position his regional role, the original objective, but now run the axis of the public agenda,

Cafiero remains at the forefront of government management during the week.

This Monday's photo with Vizzotti

is part of that plan.

On Tuesday

, the chief of ministers had planned to travel to Comodoro Rivadavia

to participate in an activity related to the anniversary of that Chubut city, but he already deleted the visit from his agenda, scheduled with two ministers.

To stay in your office to monitor the crisis.

Between Wednesday and Thursday there will be a series of meetings of sector tables with various actors of the economic activity.

The economy and, in particular, prices are still at the top of official concerns.

Now the controversy over the VIP distribution of vaccines to friends of power has joined. 

Fernández let it transpire over the weekend that the "vaccine-gate" and the departure of González García was a painful setback.

But he took advantage of the crisis to cut his teeth and to try to give, according to his surroundings, "a sign of leadership."

And firmly.

"In two hours he fired a minister and got a friend off the plane to Mexico," another friend translated it with whom he had coffee for a long time on Saturday.

The President faces, for example, not only

an institutional storm

whose outcome is still uncertain.

You will also have to avoid

"friendly fire"

and internal reproaches.

Eduardo Valdés,

the friend who had to get off the plane to Mexico City due to his visit to the VIP Health vaccination center, has no consolation.

Neither Jorge Taiana,

the other legislator of the ruling party who

was left without an air ticket.

But the senator does not have the same access to the privacy of Olivos as the deputy.

Fernández and Valdés are close.

Or they were until Friday.

Carla Vizzotti arrives in Olivos to be sworn in as Minister of Health.

Photo Marcelo Carroll.

The repercussions of the breaking of that link are also still unknown.

But from sectors of the Buenos Aires PJ, where Valdés is referenced, versions of all kinds begin to circulate about possible

privileges on the part of the President's environment when accessing the Sputnik V vaccine.

This Monday, past Argentine noon, Fernández has scheduled a meeting at the Hotel Intercontinental Presidente Mexico City with businessmen from that country who invest in Argentina.

In the afternoon, his visit to the laboratory is expected, which culminates in the manufacturing process of the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, and which in our country is developed by the mAbxience laboratory, by Hugo Sigman.

It is, paradoxically, the vaccine for which González García opted from the beginning, closely in tune with the businessman.

And whose delay in production made it necessary to explore the Kremlin route to access the Russian doses that have been pouring in since late last year.

It was the work of Vizzotti, a former disciple of the outgoing official, who has the arduous job of clearing ghosts ahead of him.

"A VIP vaccination program in Health does not work, it was an exceptional situation," she

said on Radio 10 in her first statements as minister.

It is the story that the Government seeks to install.

Its effectiveness depends on the progress of the vaccination plan and the control of the economy. 

Look also

Carla Vizzotti, a trusted minister of the President who had a broken relationship with Ginés González García

Martín Guzmán also received the Russian vaccine Sputnik V against the coronavirus

Source: clarin

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