From the CGT to Alberto Fernández amid the inmates of the ruling party: 'You have to use the power you have'

Carlos Galvan

05/07/2021 7:00

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Updated 05/07/2021 8:14 AM

An old acquaintance of Alberto Fernández and with

the immunity

that his

long career

as leader of the main and largest private sector union in the country gives him, the merchant Armando Cavalieri spoke bluntly to the President.

-You have to use the power you have, Alberto.

With that phrase spoken in confidence and in a friendly tone, the general secretary of the Trade Union seemed to allude to the recent internal tensions of the ruling party due to the continuity in office of the Undersecretary of Electric Power

Federico Basualdo, 

the official who

wanted to dismiss

Minister Martín Guzmán and that he is still in his post.

Alberto Fernández with the leaders of the CGT, this Thursday in Olivos.

But specifically Cavalieri was referring to the appointment of the new superintendent of Health Services, a

key body for the unions

because it is in charge of distributing millionaire funds among the union social works.

What's more: the trade unionist directly proposed to

Alberto Fernández

that he appoint

David Aruachán

as head of the Super Health

Service

, a man with a technical profile who had the

endorsement of the

union central

leadership

to command the organization.

In the CGT, before going to the Quinta de Olivos, they had already

agreed

that the

scrum

that was going to press for the appointment of Aruachán would be made up of Cavalieri, Andrés Rodríguez,

José Luis Lingeri

and Héctor Daer.

These last three were the first to speak and, just as they had stayed, they proposed their candidate.

Nobody said it, but it was

implicit

in the message

: the union central wanted to appoint someone with a certain consensus in the union sector and thus block any possibility that Kirchnerism would seek to colonize the Superintendency with someone of its own.

For a long time among the unions the version had been running that Cristina Kirchner, who last December raised the need to rethink the health system, wanted

Liliana Korenfeld from

Santa Cruz

to be in charge of the Superintendency of Health Services

(SSS).

Following the requests of Andrés Rodríguez, Lingeri and Daer, the President praised Arauchán but

clarified that he already had someone they trust for the position

.

"I'm going to make the decision," he sought to reassure them, without clarifying who was the chosen one.

There came the new onslaught of Cavalieri, who with a joke demanded that he use his power.

It was then that Alberto Fernández decided to cut his losses.

-I answer your irony, Armando, with another irony.

The man I chose has a past in OSECAC (the social work of the Commerce union).

He revealed at that time the name of the designated person: the doctor

Daniel López

, friend and former partner of Ginés González García, but on whom this Thursday in the Executive Power they were in charge of underlining responds to Alberto Fernández.

Can

Immediately the President added:

"I have the sum of power and I am the one who makes the decisions

but I try to reach a consensus", referring to the fact that the Frente de Todos is a coalition.

The election of Daniel López was well received in the unions.

It happens that because he is Alberto's man, in principle none of them generates distrust of

possible arbitrariness

in the handling of funds.

The typical maneuver is that more funds are sent to one social work than to another without any clear rationale or rationale.

In addition to the version that Kirchnerism wanted to place Korenfeld in the Superintendency, in the last hours Hugo Moyano had also

moved his chips

: he intended to place his own candidate,

José Bustos

, in control of the SSS

.

With López, Fernández seems to achieve peace with the union world.

Also well received by the CGT was Alberto Fernández's announcement that the Government will

inject money

to compensate the expenses of the social works in the transport and education of the disabled.

According to the cegetista accounts, an

extra $ 11,000 million

is needed

in the system just for that item.

"Take care of this,"

he asked the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, sitting to his right during lunch.

The cegetista José Luis Lingeri, upon retiring from the Quinta de Olivos.

The CGT also supported "the macroeconomic strategy" to lower inflation, which was interpreted as a tacit endorsement of

Martín Guzmán

.

Towards the end, before the photos in the park of the fifth, Gerardo Martínez demanded

the creation of an observatory

in the Ministry of Territorial Development and Habitat to monitor the construction of houses.