Bernardo Vazquez
03/15/2021 8:40 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/15/2021 8:57 PM
The appointment of
Martín Soria
as Minister of Justice to replace Marcela Losardo represents a new change within the cabinet that strengthens Cristina Kirchner within the Casa Rosada.
Since Alberto Fernández took office on December 10, 2019, the presence of officials who respond to the vice president has
been in constant growth
.
To the point that with the confirmation of a new official as minister, there
are 10 landings that gave the vice president more power
in 15 months of government, adding movements in ministries, secretariats or key organizations that function within the official structure.
Fernanda Raverta by Alejandro Vanoli
The first shining change occurred at the end of April last year, when
Alejandro Vanoli
left his place as head of the ANSeS.
Although he had been an official in Cristina's second term, when he presided over the Central Bank, he
had come
to the ANSeS
with the permission of Alberto Fernández
, who gave the economist a strategic box in itself, but which took on even more weight from the Covid-19 pandemic and the implementation of the Emergency Family Income (IFE).
Vanoli lasted less than five months in office, noted for having exposed thousands of retirees to long lines of infections in full swing.
He was replaced by a leader of La Cámpora,
María Fernanda Raverta
, who had just been part of Axel Kicillof's cabinet and who in 2019 had tried, without success, to be mayor of Mar del Plata.
Cristina
moved her first
internal
chip
in La Rosada.
And Raverta, over the months, would be praised by the Executive for the three rounds of IFE that were promoted by ANSeS, for $ 265,000 million, plus other assistance plans launched.
Internally, to his closest ones, Vanoli assures them that many of these initiatives were promoted by him in the first quarter of Fernández's presidency.
Darío Martínez by Sergio Lanziani
The next move was in Energy, a secretariat with the rank of ministry during the macrismo,
headed by Sergio Lanziani
, who saw his management weakened almost from "let's go."
Alberto supported it in those first months, backed by the Ministry of Productive Development of
Matías Kulfas
.
But Kirchnerism was reducing its credit from the income of officials in key positions for the area.
Just in August he left his post, in which he was replaced by a Patagonian representative of Kirchnerism such as
Darío Martínez
, from
Rio Negro
, president until then of the Energy Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
But the changes did not stop there.
The secretariat ceased to be under the orbit of Productive Development and passed under the command of
Martín Guzmán
, centering the base of operations on the Vaca Muerta field in Neuquén.
Jorge Ferraresi by María Eugenia Bielsa
The third change occurred in November, after Cristina spoke of
"officials who do not work
.
"
The indirect target was
María Eugenia Bielsa
, until then head of Territorial Development and Habitat.
The low execution of her ministry condemned the official, who had to give her place to a Kirchner bishop:
Jorge Ferraresi
.
The mayor -on leave- of Avellaneda is surely the community chief closest to the vice president.
His arrival at a ministry that Alberto sought to reactivate from the economic point of view was directly due to his closeness to the head of the Senate.
Cristina trusts Ferraresi so much that it was in Avellaneda where she chose to get vaccinated, at the Presidente Perón Hospital.
He,
like every time Cristina set foot in the municipality
, accompanied her.
Pablo González by Guillermo Nielsen
On January 21 there was another change that shook the summer drowsiness.
Guillermo Nielsen
, Alberto's chosen president of YPF, left his post after long months of tensions with harsh Kirchnerism within the state oil company.
His position, as happened in Energy, was filled by a dolphin of Cristina in Congress, the national deputy from Santa Cruz,
Pablo González
.
Nielsen had a consolation prize: he left for the Saudi Arabian embassy.
Carla Vizzotti by Ginés González García
The next cabinet movement, the most resounding in 15 months of Alberto Fernández's administration, occurred on February 19, after the scandal over the VIP Vaccination installed in the Ministry of Health broke out.
Ginés González García
left his position almost immediately after
Clarín's
revelation
and was replaced by
Carla Vizzotti
, his second in the portfolio.
Although Vizzotti is not an official directly identified with Kirchnerism, the departure of González García meant a setback for Fernández, who was forced to dismiss his friend from the minister's post.
And he reinforced Cristina, who came out unscathed from the controversy surrounding vaccination.
Less than a month later, another minister of the President's kidney left her post and went to an embassy, that of Unesco in Paris.
Stalked by a judicial reform that promoted Kirchnerism and that in its management failed to advance, Marcela Losardo resigned and left the place for a change that was confirmed on Monday night.
His replacement will be Soria, a Rio Negro deputy who openly responded to Cristina Kirchner.
A member of the Justice Commission in the Lower House, he has publicly defended the reform promoted by Kirchnerism and has questioned via Twitter, to cite one case, the meetings that Mauricio Macri had at the time, as President, with the chamber of Cassation
Gustavo Hornos
.
Other allies in the second lines
Before and after the departure of Lanziani, there were four movements in second lines of areas related to Energy that can also be interpreted as advances by Cristina within that portfolio, which brings together one of the agendas that the vice president is most passionate about.
After the departure of a good part of Lanziani's cabinet,
Federico Basualdo
became the Undersecretary of Electricity
, until then head of the National Electricity Regulatory Entity (ENRE).
Basualdo is seen indoors as one of Cristina's men, to the point that before taking office he wrote opinion columns in
"El Rohete a la Luna"
, by journalist K Horacio Verbitsky.
Basualdo's vacancy in the ENRE was filled with more Kirchnerism.
In his place,
Soledad Manín
, a trusted official of Basualdo and sister of Laura Manín, undersecretary of administrative management in the Ministry of the Interior headed by Eduardo de Pedro, took over.
Their father, Manuel Manín, was mayor of Lobos for the PJ, from 1991 to 1995.
Federico Bernal
, head of Enargas since March 2020, is the other official in charge of controlling the energy area.
He was an advisor to Cristina Kirchner in the Senate, from 2017 to 2019 and had previously worked in the Federal Planning Ministry led by
Julio De Vido
.
His first decision, then, was to criminally denounce Juan José Aranguren for his management at the head of Energy during the macrismo.
An official loyal to Cristina also controls Yacyretá.
He is
Ignacio Barrios Arrechea
, a lumber businessman from Misiones and the son of Ricardo Barrios Arrechea, who was provincial governor from 1983 to 1989.
Radical from the cradle, he approached Kirchnerism in Cristina's presidency, and took a selfie with her.
He has been in charge of the electric dam since last June.