Ignacio Miri
03/19/2021 8:23 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/19/2021 8:23 PM
Cristina Kirchner was the one who decided that Sergio Berni would become Minister of Security of the province of Buenos Aires.
For this reason, Berni
will continue in his position as long as he maintains the confidence of the Vice President
of the Nation.
It doesn't matter what scandal I make.
It doesn't matter if you yell at a colleague, if you
publicly disqualify
a Casa Rosada minister, or if you exercise
physical violence
against another official.
It doesn't matter if you do your job well or not.
It does not matter if
the police officers
who must drive
rise up
or if a strip of patrol cars comes to the house where the President lives to play the sirens in his face for hours.
It does not matter if you use your appearances at official events to
promote yourself
or to build your profile as a possible candidate for the elections.
If Cristina continues to support him,
Berni will continue
as minister, unless he himself decides to leave.
"Cristina banks him to die. It already took everyone's time and
the nation is afraid of him
. He is not going to leave,"
a Peronist mayor of the Buenos Aires suburbs
explains to
Clarín
who knows well how decisions are made in La Plata and in the national government.
The bully demeanor with which Berni presents himself and his ideas about what a Minister of Security should do and how to behave, they say about Axel Kicillof, are completely different from what the Buenos Aires governor prefers, but the official
enjoys that An independence permit
that the Economy Ministers once obtained in Argentina and that today is shown by those in charge of managing the police.
Berni thus makes use of the franchise that gives him the political power to
take charge of a police force that nobody wants to manage
.
"The problem that Berni has is that he wants to lead the Buenos Aires police
as if it were a military body
, and that structure has been anything but that for decades. The Buenos
Aires police
are, basically, a set of relatively independent groups and gangs that obey to commissars or mayors and who, in the best of cases,
behave like public employees of the general administration
and not like policemen. There is no esprit de corps. When a new minister arrives, the guys ask for a salary increase or a better prepayment " explains a former official with long experience in the area.
For some reason that will never be clear,
Berni is convinced
that the Ministry of National Security was
betting
that the search for the girl M. would end in
the worst way
.
In her analysis,
Sabina Frederic
hoped that this case would be the dismissal of her provincial rival from office.
Are you right when you accuse the Nation of not having worked in the search for M.?
A Buenos Aires official from the Security area, who participated in the case from the beginning and who has no sympathy for Frederic,
says that is not true
.
"The
Nation did what it had to do
. It completed all the steps. There, in these cases, the structure works even if the minister or minister does not know anything," he explains.
With Cristina's support for Berni turned into a fact, the question, rather than inquiring about the departure of the Buenos Aires official, is: How long will Frederic endure the clashes with his colleague?