Eduardo van der Kooy
05/18/2021 21:51
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 05/18/2021 9:51 PM
Dissociation in the Executive Branch could begin to pose a
threat to governance.
This dissociation has no link with the exercise of natural political leadership that, nobody disputes, corresponds to Cristina Fernández.
It is manifested in almost all the management actions that Alberto Fernández, the President, faces.
He made a tour of four European countries to keep the debt negotiation with the Paris Club and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) alive. By the way, oxygenate the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán.
Kirchnerism was in charge of boycotting each of these actions.
With the same purpose Alberto said upon his return that he is determined to lower inflation. As if it were a surprise escalation. It so happens that the price hike, according to Kirchnerism, is also due to the inexperience of the Columbia University professor. To protect it, the President resolved to address the issue with a prescription from Guillermo Moreno, the former Secretary of Commerce. It closed meat exports for a month.
The previous experience had catastrophic results.
With that claw, he immediately achieved two things.
It spurred the conflict with the countryside that erupted in 2020 with the unsuccessful attempt to expropriate the Vicentín agro-industrial pole.
Simultaneously, he cracked his own political front.
The Peronist governors of Santa Fe, Omar Perotti, and of Córdoba, Juan Schiaretti came out to criticize the decision.
Alberto weakens his already diminished position of power.
The attempt to fight with Cristina is also expressed in another issue of
enormous institutional importance
: the Judiciary.
Specifically, the draft Law of the Public Ministry that has half approval from the Senate and needs the consent of Deputies for its approval.
Alberto has remained oblivious to the elaboration of that project macerated by Cristina in the Senate.
In Deputies he has
the impulse of Máximo Kirchner, Rodolfo Tailhade and Cecilia Moreau
.
The latter responds to the head of the Chamber, Sergio Massa.
A priori, the Tigrense represents a key leg of the alliance that the President hatched in 2019 to try to balance the relationship of forces in the Front of All.
The project began to be discussed in the Commission in order to be taken to the site next week.
Sergio Massa and Máximo Kirchner play their game in Deputies with the law to remove the Attorney General.
Photo: Guillermo Rodríguez Adami
At that point the first question arises:
Does Massa now privilege his relationship with Máximo?
Or is it lacking scope for something else?
There is a third possibility: that the head of the Renewal Front speculates with the chance that Kirchnerism does not get
, as has been suggested so far
, the necessary votes to establish the quorum and give it approval.
Dangerous fencing.
What you are at stake?
A change in the rules of the game that would leave the
future Attorney General dependent on the political power of the day
.
This is the official who commands the prosecutors.
These, in the application of the accusatory system, will have a leading role greater than that of the judges.
Until now, the Procurator has been elected by two thirds of the Senate. The same formula applies to its removal. The Kirchner project modifies the appointment by absolute majority.
That is, half plus one of those present. The displacement would be consummated in the same way
. In other words, the ruling party would have the key to carry out both maneuvers. Ardid to achieve a goal that he has pursued since 2020:
the replacement of Eduardo Casal,
interim Attorney since the macrismo after the resignation of Alejandra Gils Carbó. As an aggravating factor, a parliamentary commission would appoint the temporary chief prosecutor.
The move aims not only to condition corruption investigations.
Also other very serious crimes: money laundering or drug trafficking.
It has no direct relationship with the causes that bother Cristina.
Most of them are on trial.
The ways to invalidate them are in other folds of Justice.
The goal is the future control of this judicial scheme.
It could become a
mechanism of persecution against anyone who displeases or bothers the power.
Alberto tries to minimize the Kirchner advance.
Hence, he would appear unaware of the project.
In the last hours he said that his candidate for the Procuratorate, Daniel Rafecas, had not been consecrated due to the responsibility of the opposition.
Surprise.
The statement of the judge entered the Senate on March 11, 2020.
As it arrived, it was filed in a drawer
by Anabel Fernández Sagasti from Mendoza.
In charge of the Constitutional Affairs Commission.
He even ignored a request for treatment made by a Juntos por el Cambio senator.
Not one of the hearings provided for in the appointment process was ever held
.
Such an impediment was determined by Cristina.
Rafecas's position
Rafecas reiterated that he will decline his application if the law of the Public Ministry that requires a two-thirds vote is changed.
In other words, the President would now have no candidate.
Kirchnerism knocked him down, not the opposition.
The President listened carefully to the latest invocations by Elisa Carrió so that Together for Change agrees to yield the votes to reunite two-thirds in the Senate.
The opposition in the Upper House formalized that request.
Presidential hopes would now rest on the possibility that this happens.
But Cristina has other plans.
Daniel Rafecas, Alberto Fernández's candidate for the Procuratorate, would have support from the opposition.
The first of them is that Rafecas is out of the race.
Contrast with what the President said: he said that he would speak with the magistrate to reconsider.
Almost impossible to happen.
As a paradox,
the fate of the President on this issue would have been left to the opposition will.
Not so much for the enthronement of Rafecas.
Yes, on the other hand, so that Cristina's objective is shipwrecked in Diputados.
There, the Minister of Justice, Martín Soria, obtained solidarity with the project from the bloc led by Mendoza, José Luis Ramón, from Unidad y Equidad Federal.
He did it in exchange for a promise: the creation of a Consumer Prosecutor's Office.
Resource that activated the sensors of all the governors
: it could mean impairment for provincial faculties.
The deputies of Córdoba announced that they will not support the norm.
The same behavior was manifested by the legislators who respond to Roberto Lavagna.
The changes to the Law of the Public Ministry seem to have become a poisonous stain from which opponents seek to protect themselves.
A real blessing for Alberto's weakness.
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