Bernardo Vazquez
02/27/2021 21:39
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/27/2021 9:44 PM
The
tenth banner against the government of Alberto Fernández
was conceived this Saturday in Plaza de Mayo, with a
massive mobilization that brought together thousands of people
, but also extended to other provinces of the country, such as Mendoza, Córdoba and Santa Fe, and to populous cities like Rosario, La Plata and Mar del Plata, among others.
At the same time, in
front of the Quinta de Olivos there was a confrontation
between self-organized critics of the Government and a group of K militants and CGT trade unionists who participated in a counter-march.
The march, known as
# 27F, had as its central focus the rejection of the Vip Vaccination
that the Government installed in the Ministry of Health and led to the departure of Ginés González García, was promoted by self-convened in social networks and had the adhesion of a good part of the opposition, with leaders of Together for Change who were present.
The President, Vice President
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
, outgoing Minister Ginés González García and the current Health Minister Carla Vizzotti were the main targets of the protesters, who
began to arrive at Plaza de Mayo shortly before 5:00 p.m.
and kept covering the area until after 8 pm, with a lot of presence in Diagonal Norte and Avenida de Mayo, but also from the cars that arrived in the area as a caravan and a pure honk.
The song
"
Let them
go"
was the one that predominated, among many that were heard in the afternoon.
Perhaps the most graphic image of the march was a row of
ten consortium bags
that pretended to have corpses inside
, and each one had a common motto: "He was carrying the vaccine, but he applied it ...", and they were attached names of officials or "VIP" relatives favored with the Sputnik application.
Those targeted were the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán, the head of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, the ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Scioli, "the Duhalde family", "Alberto's friends", "Zannini's wife "", "the son of Moyano", "the kids from La Cámpora", "the nephew of Ginés" and "the in-laws of Massa.
It was a group called "Young Republicans" that set the scene and immediately recorded a video with a message for the President.
Alberto Fernández and Chief of Cabinet Santiago Cafiero repudiated the event
on social media, considering it "an act of barbarism" (see separate).
But
posters
and banners with direct criticism
also stood out
.
"In front of everyone. Vaccine for some. Impunity for them"
, was one of those that was read in the middle of the Plaza.
In front of the Casa Rosada, where most of the people congregated, different proclamations stood out.
"I didn't see anything, I was fooling around (sic) with the clown Filomena," was one who accompanied the image of Vizzotti, the new Health Minister.
Another, for example, considered that
"to name Vizzotti is to make us fools
.
"
There were also
countless posters against Cristina
, some with allusions to the fact that she could go to jail, who wondered "and this year, it's up to you?" And others that linked her directly to Lázaro Báez, the Santa Cruz businessman who last Wednesday he was sentenced to 12 years in prison in the case called "The Route of Money K".
Alberto Fernández
, who had earlier asked the Frente de Todos militants not to call for a march in support of the pandemic, was not spared either.
"The worst President in history"
, "I live in a country where my cell phone is smarter than the President" and "Alberto is immoral", were some of the posters that were read with questions towards the head of state.
The opposition was present
, even in a greater number than expected, since not only were representatives of the toughest wing of Together for Change, but some "moderates" and leaders of the UCR.
Patricia Bullrich, head of the PRO, and Cristian Ritondo, head of the block of Deputies, were among the most active and cheered by the protesters.
They were accompanied, among others, by deputies Fernando Iglesias and Waldo Wolff, and former Media Secretary Hernán Lombardi, as well as Buenos Aires legislators from the space and
a large group of militants from the PRO Youth
.
In the case of Bullrich, there were some songs that cried out "Patricia Presidente."
They all arrived together minutes before 6
pm
,
shouting "we are going to return", in reference to a return to power
in the political space that, from Cambiemos, ruled from 2015 to 2019, with Mauricio Macri as president.
It was Macri who expressed his support on Twitter.
"
Excited and happy to see how Argentines mobilize once again
, showing that they are not going to allow abuses and abuses by the Government," he
wrote
.
By Together for Change was also Martín Lousteau, from the UCR, and Maximiliano Ferraro, from the Civic Coalition, and in Mendoza the head of radicalism, Alfredo Cornejo, spoke.
The three of them, like Bullrich and Ritondo,
asked last Wednesday that the Government provide details in Congress on the list of vaccinated
and the criteria that were used to immunize them, calling for Vizzotti and Cafiero to be exposed.
The demonstration, with
strong aftershocks in different parts of the country, lasted for more than three hours
and was carried out peacefully, with little distance between the attendees in times of the Covid-19 pandemic, but without incidents.
Quite the opposite happened in Olivos, at the same time, where a group of self-organized critics of the national government, met trade unionists from the CGT and militants from La Cámpora who had installed themselves at the door of the presidential residence.