Guido Carelli Lynch
06/16/2021 12:42 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 06/16/2021 12:42 PM
Alberto Fernández
had just completed the
largest verbal blooper of his tenure
. "The Mexicans came from the Indians,
the Brazilians (sic) came from the jungle
, but we Argentines came from the ships," he said. The phrase still generates resentments inside and outside the Government. In the first hours after the incident the wound was wide open. For that reason, some of the closest advisers to the ambassador in Brazil,
Daniel Osvaldo Scioli
, asked him if he was crazy when the former governor and presidential candidate warned that he would go out to put his chest, "
ask for the ball
" - as Aníbal Fernández said - to defend the President in the media. "
You leave me
”, Insisted the former motorboat who circulated in one day on 4 radios and 3 television channels.
He came out unscathed.
Again.
A week after Fernández's furcio met with the president of the Brazilian Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco.
In 24 years of political career, Scioli demonstrated a
discursive discipline that could be the envy of the President
.
He almost never says more than what he wants to say.
Several times he says little.
The
renewed optimism
of the former vice president of
Néstor Kirchner
has a political correlation these days.
His name appears in the electoral laboratory of the ruling party
in the face of the decisive legislative elections.
"He does not want to be a candidate today, but of course it causes things to be talked about him again.
How
many times
did they
leave him for dead?
”Asks a collaborator of the ambassador in Brazil who last week shared 3 hours with him.
In 2015, he was
678,774 from becoming president
and two years later he finished fifth on the list of Deputies for the same Province that he ruled for 8 years.
He was unperturbed.
In 2019 he attended the presidential debate in Santa Fe and the president-elect “paid” that deference with the embassy as the first commercial partner of Argentina. In his first meeting with
Jair Bolsonaro, he
ended up playing chess with the retired army captain, a sustained critic of Fernández and Kirchnerism. He received
Eduardo Bolsonaro
at his house
and the icing on the cake, the meeting between the two presidents, fell with the second wave of Covid-19. With the unforced errors of Chancellor Felipe Solá, he
sounded like directing the Palacio San Martín
.
Scioli was reinstated on the local public agenda with a "productivist" approach and with photos with governors and tours of the provinces, a rarity among ambassadors.
They claim that he unblocked the export of prawns to Brazil and was shown in "his"
Mar del Plata
.
He announced the investment of 4 Brazilian companies in the south of Santa Fe and toured the province with Governor
Omar Perotti
.
He opened a channel to export grapes to Brazil and toured Caucete with the San Juan president
Sergio Uñac
.
The climax of Scioli's national tours occurred in March, when he announced investments by Brazilian companies in Misiones with the President.
"He
is my brother, my alter ego, talking to him is talking to me,
" said Fernández.
Those who frequent Scioli when he is at his home in
Villa La Ñata
, which has already begun to function
again as a satellite of power
, explain that the President's gesture had two meanings. In the first place, Fernández vindicated the ambassador as his own leader, of his kidney, in the midst of the shortage of Albertist cadres. In the second instance, they add, it was also a thank you, because in the years of
political ostracism
in which the now president frequented more television channels than official offices, the then governor was
one of the few Peronist leaders who never stopped receiving him
.
Those who know him insist that Scioli
is not spiteful, but
he cannot remove the thorn that
María Eugenia Vidal's
permanent criticism of
his Buenos Aires administration means. "
I face Vidal and I beat him
wherever and whenever he wants," they heard Scioli say. For that reason, it was speculated that now that the former governor would return to the Capital, Scioli could also cross General Paz, where it all began.
That possibility, in a district that a Peronist won for the last time in 1993, does not appeal to him
.
His dislike of Vidal played a trick on him during an interview. “His defeat was overwhelming.
He did not lose with Churchill, he lost with Axel
, a militant, a great worker ”, he pointed out. In his environment they ensure that he respects the governor and, in general, all economists.
Indeed, they say,
Scioli is "dazzled" with Minister Martín Guzmán
. "It's a
diamond in the rough,
" he celebrates. The former governor, who facilitated the reunion between
Ginés González García and the President
, chats often with the head of state. He embraces the idea of the staunch albertists who resist some of the allies: the legislatures must be conceived as a
plebiscite of management
and Fernández represents the
synthesis of the Frente de Todos
, which must confront the macrismo. Try to persuade the President with the same arguments.
Without their own power in the Buenos Aires Legislature, many former Scioli officials found shelter in the national administration.
From the former Undersecretary of Social Policies
Santiago Cafiero
to the former Minister of Economy,
Silvina Batakis
, today in the Interior, or his former Chief of Staff and friend
Alberto Pérez
, with the position of director representing the State at Banco Hipotecario.
According to a survey by the consultancy firm Proyecciones, the former governor would lead the election in the province with 33.1 points if he faced
Jorge Macri
(23.5%).
The ambassador, however, accumulates some internal vetoes from allies, who prefer a
figure "less spent
" by politics for the ballot in the Province, such as
Victoria Tolosa Paz, Malena Galmarini or Gabriel Katopodis,
among others.
Although they do not say so, they also do not want to revitalize an old new rival for 2023.
Close to the former governor they insist that he does not want to be a candidate, that his profile is executive, and they remember how
long debates in the Lower House bored him.
"In any case, he has already warned the President that he
is willing to do what he asks of him
," insist some of his sides.
In sciolism they think in the present and in the future.
