02/23/2021 12:51 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/23/2021 12:56 PM
With his public approval declining after the scandal over the VIP vaccination, Alberto Fernández rehearsed an unusual explanation on Tuesday and
again pointed to the media for the scandal
that shook the Ministry of Health and that led to the departure of Ginés González García.
From Mexico and accompanied by the local president Andrés López Obrador, the President pointed out that the protocols were skipped because
"in their newspapers they wrote that we were poisoning people"
, referring to the journalists who participated in the press conference, which led to a strong repudiation of leaders and referents of the entire opposition arc.
"Some protocols were skipped due to issues of strategic activity carried out by people. And some protocols were skipped because in their diaries they wrote that we were poisoning people and they give a lot of echo to the nonsense that the opposition said. But even so I said 'put all the names' and those names were known yesterday, without anyone asking us, "said the president, after which he called the complaints about the VIP vaccination" antics ".
The opposition's response, of course, was not long in coming.
One of the first to come out to the crossing was Mario Negri, who via Twitter remarked that "the President should be the first to ask Justice to investigate to the bone."
"The lack of vaccines is a problem, but public immorality is intolerable and the Government does not acknowledge receipt. Mr. President: do not ask for impunity, do not try to cover the sun with your hand," continued the UCR deputy.
The President should be the first to ask the Justice to investigate to the bone.
The lack of vaccines is a problem, but public immorality is intolerable and the Government does not acknowledge receipt.
Mr. President: do not ask for impunity, do not try to cover the sun with your hand.
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- Mario Raúl Negri (@marioraulnegri) February 23, 2021
Meanwhile, the deputy Juan Manuel López expressed himself along the same lines and compared him with the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
"The President confesses the privilege and even the crime, but blames the opposition and the press. Any similarity with Nicolás Maduro is pure coincidence."
The President confesses the privilege and even the crime, but blames the opposition and the press.
Any similarity to Nicolás Maduro is purely coincidental.
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- Juan Manuel López (@JnmLopez) February 23, 2021
Another legislator who came out to meet the president was Maximiliano Ferraro, who clearly denied that it was a "clowning."
"
It is not a clowning
. It is not an invention. By their own banality and by appropriating the public, they dropped the narrative they wanted to turn into a great epic tale of vaccination. The truth is that they can no longer hide what is scandalizing. It is not only the VIP vaccination in different places, but also the partisan use that they deployed throughout the country, "he argued.
For his part, the legislator Hernán Reyes said: "The
champions of equal opportunities
fell the last mask. They are out of reality, he has no idea of the outrage there is for distributing the vaccine among them. They do not distinguish what is good of what is bad ".
The former minister of Agroindustry, Ricardo Buryaile, asked himself: "If this is a joke, why did he throw Ginés out?"
While radical deputy Luis Petri spoke of
"abuse of authority"
from his Twitter account, Tucumán senator Silvia Elías de Pérez pointed out against Santiago Cafiero after defending the vaccination of Carlos Zannini and Martín Guzmán, among other officials.
The President @alferdez says that it is not a crime to sneak in line to get vaccinated.
The crime was committed by public officials who provided the vaccine and mounted a #vacunatoriovip, it is called abuse of authority and violation of the duties of a public official, Art. 248.
- Luis Petri (@luispetri) February 23, 2021
"
They do not take care of anything
. The level of caradurismo of Kirchnerism is expressed in the statements of @SantiCafiero. They stole the vaccines from doctors and grandparents," he concluded.