Ignacio Miri
05/07/2021 11:42
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/07/2021 11:42 AM
As if they no longer had indications that the attempt to displace
Federico Basualdo
from the Undersecretariat of Electric Energy will not go unpunished, Alberto Fernández and Martín Guzmán received a formal warning with notarial value from Cristina Kirchner.
In that communication, sent through the Senate on Thursday, the vice president
advised the President and his Minister of Economy that she will use her veto
against the Government's measures whenever she deems it necessary.
The issue that caught Cristina's attention was, once again, the negotiation with the
International Monetary Fund
led by Guzmán to receive a new loan that allows her to cancel the one taken by
Mauricio Macri
and thus extend the payment terms.
It is already clear enough that Cristina does not want Guzmán to sign that agreement, at least during this year.
The vice president
continues to consider as unacceptable the image of the IMF missions
arriving in Argentina to monitor the numbers of the local economy, as the organization does every year in the almost 200 countries that comprise it.
Cristina has already decided that she will plant guiding guides in Guzmán's economic program to avoid the influence of the Fund's economists.
These guides are intended, in principle, to avoid increases in the rates of public services. It is already known that electricity and gas will have symbolic increases that will be liquefied in two months, or less, of inflation, and that public transport tickets will continue at such low levels that it is more expensive to charge them than to release the turnstiles.
This Thursday, with the initiative that the vice president sent to vote in the Senate to recommend that the money order that the IMF will send to Argentina
not be used to cancel maturities of the debt with that body
, it was also evident that Cristina is not willing to to continue being a passive observer in the meetings that Guzmán will hold next week in Europe, a trip that will serve the President and also his minister to strengthen himself with the photos together with European leaders.
If he wants to continue in his post, the minister must learn to consult the progress in the negotiations with the IMF and also his own decisions in Economy with the interlocutor appointed by the vice president: Cristina has
already warned quite clearly
that a minister cannot go against the decisions of the political head of the Frente de Todos.
To avoid the fury of the vice president, the minister will have to take refuge under the arm of the president. His problem, now, is that he stopped being the minister of the government alliance to become the minister of Alberto Fernández. This, as occurs in any coalition,
will generate costs for its protector
, who will have to defend the measures of his official as his own, not only against the opposition, businessmen or the IMF, but also against the partners of the Frente de Todos, or , rather, before
the partner
.