03/15/2021 18:09
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 03/15/2021 18:09
The indecision that Alberto Fernández usually exhibits when making decisions, and whose most recent manifestation is
the long week of delay
in appointing the replacement of Minister Marcela Losardo in Justice, has a
multiplying effect
that affects much more than to the presidential image.
In fact, that's the least of it.
It is not a question here of analyzing the reason for such
zigzagging behavior
, so repeated in these 15 months in office.
There are personal factors, of course, that stimulate it.
Nor can it be avoided that the
unstable balance
between the different interests, thoughts and powers of the highest leaders of the ruling party would put even the most executive of the presidents to the test.
Especially when those that generate conflict are the interests, thoughts and powers of Cristina Kirchner.
The truth is that Fernández's behavior has become
so worrying
that this Monday the Rosada was talking about the formation of a “political table”, made up of people close to the President, to
help him speed up the pace
of definitions.
Paradoxical remedy: if something abounded in these months were different tables, tables, committees and commissions that added many meetings and few decisions.
Fernández's doubts,
which some translate as lukewarm
, even have repercussions in areas where he was firm at the beginning of his administration, such as in the fight against the coronavirus.
The arrival in droppers of the different vaccines that could be obtained, in what
already seems a display of improvisation
, is brutally opposed to the speed with which almost exactly a year ago the entire country was locked up in a strict quarantine.
That the quarantine has been "silly" - for the entire territory equally, eternal and without properly measuring its consequences on the economy and education - is another problem.
That it
was a sanitary failure
too.
"He does not make decisions that imply any cost," says a former Macrista official.
It's funny: not making decisions
can also be very expensive
.
For example, given the catastrophic situation of the pandemic in Brazil (there is no country today with more deaths or infections per day), part of the scientific community suggested closing the border: the most contagious known variant of the virus circulates there without restraint, that of Manaus (P1), which from yapa would be more “resistant” to vaccines.
Preventing their massive entry into the country
would significantly lessen the impact of the second wave
.
Hard Kirchnerism (which "militates" this cause, perhaps because of its lack of love for Bolsonaro and circulated a request signed by, among others, Alicia Castro and Nora Cortiñas) with figures such as former Foreign Minister Carlos Ruckauf and Adolfo Rubinstein, former minister, coincide in the diagnosis. of health.
However, the government
limited itself to "discouraging"
the population from traveling to Brazil and cutting flights from that country in half.
It is true that there are great practical difficulties in such a measure (the border with Brazil is very porous and closing it effectively is a really complicated task), but it is known that poor control of foreign travelers was one of the causes. that despite the eternal quarantine
today we mourn 54,000 dead
.
They are not few.
The Fernández “style” can be verified in almost all sectors of the Government, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Public Works, from the Environment to Defense, from Tourism to Security.
It is fair to acknowledge that one of the first people to come to this conclusion
was precisely the Vice President
, when in her famous letter of October 27, published on the 10th anniversary of the death of Néstor Kirchner, she punished "officials who do not work "And at the same time he
sentenced, impious
:" The decision-making system in the Executive Branch makes it impossible for the President not to make government decisions.
He is the one that removes, puts or maintains officials ”.
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