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The President loses confidence K: repeated mistakes cause discomfort in Cristina and La Cámpora

2021-06-14T14:48:00.802Z


The latter were related to foreign policy where in one year eight regional conflicts accumulated. Eduardo van der Kooy 06/12/2021 22:00 Clarín.com Opinion Updated 06/12/2021 10:00 PM Alberto Fernández has just added another problem to the various structure that he has in the exercise of power. On the front line is the oppressive leadership practiced by Cristina Fernández. We can add the political siege that the governor, Axel Kicillof, and Máximo Kirchner are progressively tending from Buen


Eduardo van der Kooy

06/12/2021 22:00

  • Clarín.com

  • Opinion

Updated 06/12/2021 10:00 PM

Alberto Fernández has just added another problem to the various structure that he has in the exercise of power. On the front line is the

oppressive leadership

practiced by Cristina Fernández. We can add the

political siege

that the governor, Axel Kicillof, and Máximo Kirchner are progressively tending from Buenos Aires. The

absence of articulation

that the President exhibits with traditional Peronism, represented by the governors, does not help either. In this inclement context, the Law professor

shot himself in the feet

: he deepened the devaluation of his word. An instrument of great significance on many planes. To build public trust. Promote coincidences or tensions. Also build some identity.

The deficit of the word acquires an overvaluation in an exceptional situation such as that of the pandemic and the health emergency.

His countermarches have

undermined his public credibility

.

Reflected in the fall of his image, below 40%, according to most polls.

The worst since he entered the Casa Rosada.

The verbal detonation of the last week, when he argued that "the Mexicans came from the Indians, the Brazilians from the jungle and the Argentines from the ships," certainly hit his political management.

But it sounded mostly disruptive in Kirchnerism.

The gravity is twofold because in there he has neither authority nor trust to spare.

“Talk too poncho.

It is not prepared.

Cristina has already made him notice ”

, commented a prominent leader of La Cámpora.

The young woman remembered, by the way, another close episode without as much resonance as that of that reflection poured in front of the Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez. When promulgating the Environmental Education law, he gave a surprising speech. He argued that, thanks to the pandemic, we discovered another world.

“The water became clearer, the land more green and productive, wild animals that when they see us do not come out but that suddenly began to come out. Do you know why? Because it was us who locked ourselves up ”

, he concluded. Has it served as a justification for the very long quarantine in Argentina? Would that be the way to combine development with the preservation of the environment? Very rare.

That allusion to the origin of Mexicans, Brazilians and Argentines would put a double condition in crisis. That of the core thought of Kirchnerism, called progressive, and that of the President himself, who since 2019 likes to define himself as a center-left leader. It vindicates, at the same time, the symbolic battery of ancestral Peronism. He made it clear during that teleconference he had with the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin.

That inclination to misunderstandings would then induce him to

corrective and bombastic gestures to satisfy the Frente de Todos

. He greeted as president-elect - who is not yet - Pedro Castillo in Peru. A radicalized leftist rural teacher who no one knows if he will continue that path or will become Lenín Moreno, the disciple of Rafael Correa who ended up abandoning him in Ecuador. For now, he has just appointed a former delegate of his country to the World Bank, Pedro Francke, as an economic advisor.

Alberto used in that congratulation a Kirchnerist language that he only began to adopt since he was a candidate.

Tangle and banality are not harmless.

They have an impact on foreign relations.

The President has accumulated eight conflicts with countries in the region

.

As the current head of Mercosur, he asked Uruguay to leave the bloc if it did not accept the rules of the game.

Where is Foreign Minister Felipe Solá?

Foreign Minister Felipe Solá, together with President Alberto Fernández.

The management has accumulated eight conflicts with regional countries.

The contrasts expand. He toured Europe asking for the help of Sánchez himself, Emmanuel Macron, the premier of France, and Mario Draghi, of Italy, for the negotiations with the Paris Club and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He even managed a remote chat with the German Angela Merkel. But in that conversation with Putin he pontificated that "capitalism has failed." Difficult to understand for Vladimir himself, who put the last brushstroke on the tombstone of the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Those courses of action

gnaw at the President's political margins

. It is clearly seen in other respects. The management of the pandemic, with its multiple ramifications, and the direction of an economic agenda that has almost the same stamp as the one that Cristina imposed between 2012-15, when she tried to keep the situation from getting out of control.

The sanitary measures, after the breakdown of the concord with the head of the City, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, have so far had the logic of the political and sanitary needs that Buenos Aires demands.

Only the combination of both allows us to explain the return of face-to-face classes at a time of contagion that does not seem very different from mid-May.

Then virtuality continued.

Kicillof surprised Alberto himself and dealt with his Health team who demanded another month of strict closure.

But there was a warning from Cristina and mayors who pointed out a growing social unrest and the impossibility of controlling it.

The shadow of the head of the City also weighed.

Kicillof's tale

The governor knows that reality and the lack of expectations. That is why he delves into them elsewhere: vaccines. For the first time since December, Buenos Aires exceeded 120,000 daily inoculations. The campaign has taken another rhythm. It incorporated a vaccination train that runs through towns in the Interior. The problem is that

these numbers appear intoxicated by the political narrative

. Kicillof assured that he has already vaccinated more than one complete City. Unnecessary comparison with Rodríguez Larreta, who in his district complies with the organization chart.

The governor

is tempted by the microphone to

even

talk

about what he knows little about. He compared Sputnik V to anti-tetanus. He said the second dose of the Russian vaccine would be a booster of the first. That happens with the Chinese Sinopharm. The specialists got tired of explaining that Sputnik V is made up of two different components, the effect of which is complementation.

Kicillof probably gets along better with arithmetic. It would be reliable to monitor the vaccination campaign in the suburbs where there is greater disparity than in the Interior of the Province. La Matanza, Kirchner's stronghold, exhibits for now one of the most delayed indexes. Together with Tigre. As a compensation stands out at the top Avellaneda, payment of the ultra K minister, Jorge Ferraresi. Vicente López and San Isidro also appear, although they have another political interest: they are administered by mayors of Juntos por el Cambio.

The governor did the same as the President. He called on the opposition to go out looking for vaccines instead of criticizing the shortage. Controversy never leaves the public agenda. Sergio Massa's maneuver in Deputies, citing the laboratories, was of little use. AstraZeneca, which makes the Oxford vaccine, replied in writing. Russia and China clarified that they would do so through their Foreign Ministries. The focus was anchored in Pfizer, which snubbed the opposition on the one hand and the ruling party on the other. He denied that there had been a request for returns, as reported by Patricia Bullrich. He clarified that, in effect, the laboratory does not satisfy the Vaccine Law approved by Congress. Together for Change offered to modify it. The Government does not want to.

Representatives from Pfizer and Richmond went to Congress to explain the coronavirus vaccines.

Photo Press Deputies

The official indolence could not be explained solely by that contractual difference.

There would be political reasons and little transparent commitments with the pharmaceutical world and foundations where businessmen of the sector, infectologists and current officials converge.

Argentina, which exceeded 85 thousand deaths, remains

closed to the possibility of having another three vaccines

.

All American: Pfizer, Moderna and Janssen.

To fill this gap, the Government launched to promote the production of what it calls "Argentine vaccine." It is Sputnik V that counts for its elaboration here with the permission of the Gamaleya Institute. The businessman Marcelo Figueiras, who attended the session in Deputies, was in charge of lowering the foam. For now, only the vaccine whose component began to arrive from Moscow will be filtered and packaged. One batch of each production must be shipped and authorized by Russia prior to distribution. Manufacturing will be possible when a new Richmond laboratory plant is built, which requires an investment of US $ 70 million.

If each vaccine, as Kirchnerism conjectures, represents a vote, Kicillof seems to have anticipated the collection.

The entire electoral strategy resides in Buenos Aires

. Only a victory in that geography would keep the project of Cristina, the governor and Máximo alive. For this reason, the list of foreigners authorized to vote from the PASO was increased by 25%.

Máximo also made his contribution to improve the panorama.

A project of his, streamlined by Massa in Deputies, extends subsidies for residential gas consumption to a significant number of localities called "cold zone".

An opposition province, Mendoza, was covered with benefits.

It granted this exception to 56 towns in Buenos Aires.

Blow to austerity proclaimed by the Minister of Economy.

That decision is linked to a photograph: it showed Cristina and Massa in the announcement of a 40% increase to employees of Congress, extended to deputies and senators.

Goodbye to the 30 or 35% cap set by the Columbia professor.

Those defeats would eloquently explain, perhaps,

the evaporation of Martín Guzmán

in the last week.

Source: clarin

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