Ignacio Ortelli
03/12/2021 4:31 PM
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Updated 03/12/2021 4:31 PM
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on Friday and publicly ratified by Alberto Fernández on Monday, the novel about the departure of Marcela Losardo from the Ministry of Justice was stretched more than expected.
More than a week after those first versions, the President is
looking for a replacement
in the midst of
an earthquake
that plagues his Government.
Beyond the names, as diverse as - in some crazy cases, the big question is politics.
How to achieve that, after such an impact, the president shows signs of strength and extinguishes, at least for a while, the discussion about his place in the power formula?
In the end, if the resignation of his friend and lifelong partner responded to the fact that, as he confided, "
the time to come needs another attitude,
" the name of his replacement will not generate major changes in the dynamics of the bond between him. Government and the Judiciary.
The funny thing is that it was Fernández himself who exposed himself only when he anticipated in the interview with C5N that he
was on the mission of "getting a replacement"
, which ended up confirming the news that, throughout the weekend, the Government had commissioned to relativize, even with two offs the records of the head of state.
The permanence of Losardo in his office,
still with his signature enabled
for the decrees of necessity and urgency that the Government published this Thursday, made more visible the difficulties of the President to find a versatile name that can avoid future short circuits in a portfolio that is going to be led by Vice Minister
Juan Martín Mena
.
In addition to not being surprised by their limited scope for action, whoever assumes as minister
will not be able to designate more than their private secretaries
or, eventually, a handful of lockers, such as the Undersecretariat for Relations with the Judicial Power, in charge of
Adriana Garcia Netto
, who to join the executive had resigned as Attorney General before the oral Courts in Criminal and Correctional Matters
of the Federal Capital but its continuity without Losardo is unknown.
It was in this context that
the landing of an albertist
took force
,
allowing the President to show off that he had imposed a name, but at the same time accepting an almost testimonial place.
Not even the antecedent of
Julio Alak
, honed by his camper deputy minister
Julián Alvarez
, manages to graph the magnitude of this new stage: the former mayor of La Plata was in agreement with a good part of the measures that promoted his number 2 and was a spokesman who did not He hesitated to defend each initiative publicly, another of the reproaches that Losardo received.
Someone in Balcarce 50 thought of Alak during the day on Tuesday, but quickly from the Government they came out to cross the versions.
In this scheme, the names of Alberto's kidney that sounded in the last hours do not seem to fit:
Alberto Iribarne
, who wants to continue as ambassador in Uruguay, the Secretary General of the Presidency,
Julio Vitobello
;
the Legal and Technical Secretary,
Vilma Ibarra
;
Or would presidential adviser
Juan Manuel Olmos
agree to be silent notaries of actions beyond the will of the President?
With scrolls to aspire to be in the batch of candidates for the Supreme Court of Justice,
Marisa Herrera
, the Conicet researcher and member of the expert council (the so-called "
Beraldi Commission
") that advised the President, has a specific weight of her own that It raises questions regarding her plasticity in this scenario, despite being a "Kirchnerista" she confesses and
pays tribute to Cristina
.
With this dilemma, a piece began to sound that crowned the assembly that Mena, Cristina's bishops in the Senate and the tandem that make up the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro and his foster brother and executive advisor in the Magistracy,
Gerónimo Ustarroz
, have been a member since December 2019.
The director of Legal Affairs of the Senate,
Graciana Peñafort
, who had sounded as an alternative to
Daniel Rafecas
for the Attorney General's Office, this time did not even sound, despite her good relationship with Alberto: they assure that the vice president loves her near you in the Upper House.
An ultra figure would be the delight of the albertistas angered by the attacks on Losardo: "They beat Marcela but
those who operated and were not very successful were them
. Well, now let's see how it goes," they grumble.
Interestingly, given the chapter of tension with the judges, Mena's actions remained stable. Why go outside looking for the imprint that number 2 guarantees? The argument is symbolic and does not have to do with the prosecution and elevation to oral trial that in March 2018 ordered by the late judge
Claudio Bonadio
in the case for the signing of the Memorandum with Iran: in the Government they admit that confirming him as minister would still expose plus presidential weakness. More: Mena, a disciple of the former Supreme Court judge
Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni
and in good agreement with the vice president of the Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber,
Alejandro Slokar
; he cultivates a low profile and, each time he was consulted, made clear his intention to stay away from the lights and move freely.