Walter Schmidt
03/14/2021 19:03
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 03/14/2021 19:03
In Roman mythology Janus is the god of changes and transformations, that is why doors and thresholds are consecrated to him.
However, it has two faces, one of them symbolizes evolution, but the other,
the uncertainty of what is to come.
In native political terms, one of the faces may be that of President Alberto Fernández and the other, of course, his Vice President Cristina Kirchner.
The undervalued power of the pen versus the power of leadership that Kirchner votes grant.
It was June 2019, Alberto F. was a presidential candidate and there were several months before the PASO but the doubts were latent.
"It will not be a two-headed power,
I will be the president," he swore in an interview with La Nación, and clarified that "just as I did not intervene in the lists,
no one is going to intervene in my ministries."
It is as true that Alberto did not intervene in the formation of the lists as that
the vice president did intervene in the cabinet
, on several occasions.
From the request for the resignation of María Eugenia Bielsa after her letter of October 26 pointing to "the ministers who do not work" to the appointment of the Cristinista Jorge Ferraresi, in his place.
Another case is the forced removal of Ginés González García after the Vip vaccination scandal: a long time ago, Christianity questioned health management and highlighted the work of Carla Vizzotti, with a direct line to the Patria Institute, and who finally stayed with the ministry .
During these days, it was also clear his interference in the resignation of the Minister of Justice Marcela Losardo, who communicated that decision to Alberto Fernández despite the fact that the president did not want him to leave, because he could no longer bear the denial and permanent attack from Christianity to its management.
Like few others, the Losardo case reflects the double command or two-sided power
that the Casa Rosada is going through today.
The still civil servant always had objections before the judicial onslaught of the Taliban K, as they identify the group made up of Eugenio Zaffaroni, Oscar Parrilli, Gracia Peñafort and Leopoldo Moreau.
The problem for the ruling coalition is that
Losardo was Alberto.
Magistrates Association Dinner with Justice Minister Marcela Losardo.
But the moment of no return occurred when, despite the fact that Fernández decided to contain Cristina with a fiery speech against the Judiciary at the opening of sessions of Congress based on projects that did not exist - a new court of guarantees, trial by jury for crimes Federal - Christianity came out the next day to install the creation of the bicameral commission to sanction judges and prosecutors.
The Minister of Justice - and the President? - knew nothing.
That is why he marked his discrepancy and then asked Alberto to leave.
The president only asked him for a few days in return.
The delay and secrecy never seen in the Government
regarding the name of Losardo's replacement reflects the limitations of the President to appear handling the situation.
Who it will be is still unknown.
“We entered into a dynamic post-letter of October 26 from Cristina that increasingly limits Alberto to him and generates stronger levels of tension due to the vision of what to do with the economy and due to the judicial dynamics. I believe that to the extent that the judicial system, according to Cristina's gaze, does not advance, the pressure will be stronger and stronger ”
, assures political consultant Carlos Fara.
The President is obliged, in chess terms, to exchange one bishop for another
.
But he doesn't have many names with those qualities - long bond and extreme trust - for that position.
Vilma Ibarra, Julio Vitobello, Alberto Iribarne or Gustavo Béliz.
Nobody else.
Otherwise,
any other name will mean a setback in the presidential power quota vis-à-vis Cristina
Kirchner.
For example, that of one of the dance applicants, Marisa Herrera, a member of the Justice Advisory Committee and who already in December 2019 was offered to accompany Losardo in Justice, but she declined.
Herrera
once
claimed that he owed Nestor and Cristina Kirchner "his passion for politics."
Now, is the Ministry of Justice so important?
Not for a long time.
Before the reform of '94, judges were appointed by hand.
That is why the story from the beginning of the 90s during the Menemism was that at the headquarters in Gelly and Obes, a few meters from the British embassy, the candidates for magistrates paraded through the office of the Minister of Justice on duty.
Currently, the Justice portfolio deals with the formal relationship with the Judicial Power, the magistrates' associations, channeling the requests and needs of the Justice, or improving citizen access, in addition to managing the prisons that depend on it through the Federal Penitentiary Service. of the Nation.
But unless you are thinking about the development of a true judicial reform - is that it? - or prison, the role of the ministry is less.
Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner.
The dual command is also present in the management of the Martín Guzmán Economy.
The minister has a permanent relationship with Cristina, but not only to inform her of her management but to take note of the demands of the vice president, advised by the governor Axel Kicillof.
Among them, that the agreement with the IMF is not immediate to avoid an adjustment.
This should confuse the Fund staff.
From there
some incongruities
emerge
, such as the one noted days ago by a private representative of the energy sector.
“We cannot understand why Minister Guzmán, together with Secretary of Energy Darío Martínez, sets a 29-30% increase in rates and then the head of Enargas (Federico Bernal) corrects the minister and says that there can be no more increase two digits ”.
It's not Bernal, it's Cristina.
Even
in the vaccination campaign there is a double command
.
On January 18, the then Minister of Health Ginés González García defined a strategic vaccination plan where he set the priorities for inoculation, with health personnel and the elderly at the fore.
He was strictly respected by the City, governed by the opposition Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, but not by the province of Buenos Aires in charge of Kicillof, who was supposed to line up behind Nación.
But both the provincial Minister of Health, Daniel Gollán, and his second Nicolás Kreplak,
respond to Cristina
.
That is why they decided to campaign with celebrities or allow young activists from La Cámpora, young PAMI officials or trade unionists in some municipalities to be vaccinated, instead of vaccinating all health personnel who work in contact with Covid patients or adults Seniors anxiously waiting for a dose.
The other chapter is written by the entrepreneurs of the different sectors of production.
The turning point in the relationship with the ruling party was the wealth tax.
But the rise in profits for large companies, plus fines and controls to enforce maximum prices, strain a relationship in which the Government needs more employment and investment in the future.
And the entrepreneurs, certainty and clear rules.
Will the dual command also govern the electoral campaign
?
“The discussion is whether the command is more on Cristina's side or is it balanced.
And the electoral issue is something that Cristina and Máximo are going to reserve and Alberto's incidence is going to be little because he also has no figures to play with.
As it is key, especially in the province of Buenos Aires, in the electoral field there will be a command from Cristina ”
, assures Carlos Fara.
The few experiences of double command in Peronism were transitory
.
Today, no one dares to talk about times in the Frente de Todos.
