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Dangerous habit: uniting to win, not to rule

2021-06-29T14:30:45.952Z


The ruling party proudly states that the disagreements were postponed until after the legislative elections. What if they better unite to rule? The renewed danger of a sterile electoral assembly the day after.


06/28/2021 8:21 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Opinion

Updated 06/28/2021 8:21 PM

At this time, the conviction is growing that

the Government is already working in elections mode.

It is rightly stated that the objective shared by its most powerful leaders, from the Vice President downwards, is clear: to win the November legislative elections with the greatest possible difference.

Electoral logic, perhaps because of its similarity to sports (winners and losers) and because of its pregnancies in a country with elections every two years, proposes a virtuous reading of this dynamics of the ruling party. Perhaps also due to the historical characteristics of Peronism, it is intended to show this alignment as good news, a behavior worthy of recognition. This evaluation loses sight of a relevant fact: the hard union of wills for electoral purposes makes visible the serious difficulties in finding common criteria in management.

What is truly virtuous, what is healthy for everyone and not only for those who aspire to power, would have been exactly the opposite:

that the Front that sat Alberto Fernández in the Rosada showed greater cohesion at the time of governing,

managing the economy, lowering inflation and providing vaccines. And in any case that it will pay off its interns in the pre-election competition. The continuity of the dynamics that allowed the triumph of 2019 may guarantee another in November, but it also anticipates that the internal exhaustion will continue the same or perhaps worse in the following two years. Discarded the hypothesis of a President strengthened by candidates of "Albertism" (who died before being born), the future anticipates worse frictions.

However, today it is intended to present in a tone of praise that the differences will be postponed until the legislative ones. That everyone will try to minimize the repeated presidential gaffes and will take care of Alberto Fernández, that Cristina will not press the President with her wishes and criticism, that Massa will put all his armed capacity at the service of the coalition and that Máximo and La Cámpora will do so in the same sense.

It is even verbalized as a truce. And if there is a truce, it is because there was war.

A few days ago Axel Kicillof told on TV (and praised himself with

“I was quick”

) that he communicates with the president on WhatsApp and with the vice president on Telegram. The little anecdote hides the clue of a greater tragedy: what can be expected of a government where the president and his vice president cannot share the same message app?

During these same hours the main opposition force, Together for Change, defines its leadership and subsequent candidacies, and many voices present this instance with a critical tone and gesture of terror. New paradox.

It is also curious that the same voices that condemn the authoritarian style of Peronism to define their candidacies (Cristina's famous finger or pen) question with equal emphasis the lack of that organizing leadership in Juntos por el Cambio

, and seem to be scandalized by the possibility of an internal one. "There is no need to be scared by that," the triumphant governor of Jujuy, Gerardo Morales, said yesterday. "In 2015 there was an intern between Carrió, Macri and Sanz," he exemplified, with the intention of recovering a healthy precedent that is now forgotten.

The Gataflorista critique of both resolution systems

, the Peronist imposition and those internal to the opposition, transcends the parties and installs an unfair critical idea of ​​politics in general. Finally, it pays off a dangerous and ineffectual antipolitical discourse.

Source: clarin

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