Ignacio Ortelli
03/26/2021 1:56 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/26/2021 1:56 PM
Fed up with Sergio Berni's public questioning against his management, Alberto Fernández decided to move his chips.
The President ordered the Minister of Security, Sabina Frederic, to reactivate the
meetings with the mayors of Greater Buenos Aires
so that they have interference in the preparation of the crime map and in the
deployment of the federal forces
.
And in the last hours there were three summits in which
a "direct" work
was agreed
between the Nation and the municipalities
, an issue that irritates the Buenos Aires official.
Although in the Casa Rosada they spoke of
Berni crossing "a limit"
at the intersection he had with the Secretary of Security,
Eduardo Villalba
, number 2 of Frederic, and there were even some ministers who were encouraged to suggest that he should resign, it was a definition that the Buenos Aires official left in the media, which motivated Fernández's response: "
The minister lies to the President
, for example when she says that there are 4 thousand gendarmes working on the streets of the province of Buenos Aires, something that is a lie. And also that he coordinates with us. "
In short, it is one of the management claims that Berni made explicit on repeated occasions, who asked to directly control the federal forces that the Nation has for the Province in the territory.
Far from making a concession,
now the Government proposes to expand the influence of mayors
, who also do not hide criticism of
the official who supports Cristina Kirchner
.
"There is a firm decision to work and articulate with the mayors directly," admitted from Balcarce 50, on the new scenario that opens from this summit.
"
The idea is to return to a scheme similar to the Sentinel Operation
that was carried out with Néstor and Cristina, where the mayors who know the territory better than anyone else worked closely with the Nation," explained sources familiar with the first two summits that were held this Thursday. at the headquarters of the Ministry of Security.
In the first meeting, the mayors
Juan Zabaleta
(Hurlingham),
Leonardo Nardini
(Malvinas Argentinas) and
Gustavo Menéndez
(Merlo), three leaders close to Fernández,
disembarked
, while then the building on Gelly and Obes Street was passed by Fernando Espinoza from Matanzas.
Sabina Frederic started meetings with mayors Leonardo Nardini (Malvinas Argentinas), Juan Zabaleta (Hurlingham), Gustavo Menéndez (Merlo) and Fernando Espinoza (La Matanza) to help put together the crime map.
And this Friday, Frederic, together with his chief of staff
Cecilia Rodríguez
and the secretary of Federal Articulation,
Gabriel Fuks
,
stopped
by Almirante Brown to visit
Mariano Cascallares
, another of the mayors close to Fernández.
"They talked about the deployment of the 4 thousand members of the Federal Forces that are currently carrying out operations in the Buenos Aires suburbs," they said from Security.
"The mayors requested to influence the planning of the deployment of federal forces in each of the districts according to their crime maps," they limited themselves to saying about the new role that mayors will have.
The mayors want to have an opinion on where the gendarmes destined to reinforce security in the Conurbano should be located.
From the Casa Rosada they explained that the mayors multiplied their direct requests to the President regarding the security issue.
"They have a different opinion about where the gendarmes should be with respect to what the province says.
The decision is to listen to them and give them an answer,
" they assured.
They still have to define how it will be implemented.
The meetings will be repeated in the coming weeks.
"It is not our problem alone. We receive the anger of the people and we have been warning, we
hope that we do not have to wait for the election to realize it,
" says one of the mayors.
The latest violent episodes of insecurity, which unleashed some protest marches, finished setting off the alarms.
Beyond the management, in the meetings, as
Clarín was
able to reconstruct
, strong reproaches against Berni were heard.
The minister did not hide her fatigue with the media crossovers with the official.
"
I did not notice her overwhelmed,
" confided a mayor, like the one made explicit by Marcela Losardo to leave her position in the Ministry of Justice.
Sabina Frederic, in the meeting with Fernando Espinoza (La Matanza)
More: from the environment of the President, they
admit that these movements imply "a strong endorsement" to Frederic
, but at the same time they maintain that "it was never in doubt".
No one is in charge of hiding the tension with Berni, symbolically supported by Cristina in the ceremony on Wednesday.
"
It is not our problem, but his boss
: who has to take care of that is (Axel)
Kicillof
, who is the one who must contain his mayors who are very angry."
Nobody dares to predict how this internship will end.
Above all because, as Clarín said, Kicillof does not analyze talking with Cristina to enable Berni to leave and even strengthened his bond with the minister.
