07/26/2021 10:36 PM
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 07/26/2021 10:36 PM
Perhaps
a political agreement is in order.
Among the many Chicanas that we will see and hear in these five months of the electoral campaign,
criticism for the change of address
of the candidates
should be eliminated
.
Especially in that territory of modern Argentina that is the AMBA, more than thirteen thousand square kilometers of surface and almost fifteen million inhabitants, where
most of the leaders who are running for elective positions
live, work, enter and leave
constantly.
Over the weekend, while they announced who would be the candidates for the legislative elections of the Frente de Todos, it was Sergio Massa who insisted with the chant of the change of address.
"I cannot imagine a person from Salta who accepts that a man from Rio Negro is a candidate for him
and I believe that Axel does the job to recover the Buenos Aires identity that we have to carry forward."
Massa's dart
was aimed at two of his best friends in politics:
Diego Santilli and María Eugenia Vidal, who have just made a
home swap
to be candidates for Together in the Province, the Buenos Aires deputy head of government, and head the ballot in the City, the former Buenos Aires governor. In another country, it could be two birds with one shot for the president of the Chamber of Deputies. But
the situation is more complex.
Massa was speaking to Axel Kicillof, the governor who supposedly wants to recover
the Buenos Aires identity.
The problem is that Axel, who was next to him at the Escobar factory where they launched,
lived in Parque Chas
and was a deputy in 2015 for the City until he became governor. And their children continue to study at a school in the Capital.
To Massa's left, but two meters closer, was Cristina Kirchner.
The Vice President was a
deputy and senator for Santa Cruz
in the late 1990s, an unobjectionable fact because she lived in Río Gallegos.
As unobjectionable as that later she was elected
senator for the province of Buenos Aires,
because she lived in Villate 1000, Olivos, since her husband was the President.
Perhaps something more objectionable was that she
returned to be a candidate for Senator for the Province
in 2017, because she was already
alternating her Patagonian address
in El Calafate
with her Buenos Aires address
in the Recoleta neighborhood.
Diego Santilli, with Graciela Ocaña, Juan López, Marcela Campagnoli and Gerardo Milman, all part of the Buenos Aires list.
What a challenge for the imagination of Massa
, who could not believe that there could be home exchanges between citizens of one province and another. He could have
snooped in the trajectory of Néstor Kirchner
, governor of Santa Cruz and a defeated candidate for deputy in 2009 for the mysterious province of Buenos Aires. Perhaps he has already forgotten it, but he was also
on that ticket of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires and Patagonians of the PJ.
The one who is safe from
the migrant candidacies of the AMBA
to throw the first stone. Daniel Scioli was governor on two occasions and
left his house full of nautical trophies in Abasto
to change his address to
Villa La Ñata
, where so many leaders, businessmen and celebrities who were friends of the now Argentine ambassador in Brasilia paraded. Until a few days ago, the Government measured his figure in the Capital and in the Province and only
his desire to preserve the diplomatic destiny
kept him safe from a new postulation.
Of course,
home polyamory
is not the patrimony of Peronism, and not even of the aforementioned cases of Vidal and Santilli.
Elisa Carrió's first two candidacies for national deputy
were for the Chaco,
and in the next four she
competed for the City of Buenos Aires
, the territory where she moved.
He was about to do it for the Province, since he lives in Exaltación de la Cruz, but gave up when he found that the internal deputy between Santilli and Facundo Manes was inevitable.
María Eugenia Vidal, along with those chosen to accompany her list in the City of Buenos Aires.
Now that the biography of Dr. Manes is an object of study of the campaign, it is known that he was
born in the Iriarte de Quilmes hospital
, that he moved and spent his childhood and adolescence
in the Buenos Aires city of Salto
, but that he obtained his diploma from neurologist in Buenos Aires, who works at the Ineco Foundation, unmistakably Buenos Aires, and who
lives in an apartment on Cerrito Street, six blocks from the Obelisk.
A doctor from the AMBA there, Raúl Alfonsín would say.
Geographic multiplicity was also
an attribute of
Mauricio Macri
.
He was head of the Buenos Aires government with
his domicile in Palermo Chico
, but he has publicly said that he could be a candidate in the Province because he was
born in Tandil,
where his mother, Alicia Blanco Villegas, and his father Franco lived for some years. And he also
evaluated being a candidate for senator for Misiones
in 1999, where he shared an address with the missionary by birth and later ambassador to Spain, Ramón Puerta. There were those who even
wanted to run for him in these elections for senator for Córdoba
, taking advantage of the address that Socma, the family company, has there.
As can be seen,
migrant candidates
even have counterfactual stories.
The time when the only candidates for executive or legislative positions were
those who were born in the town
is getting further and further behind.
The legends of
Alfonsín de Chascomús or Menem de Anillaco
are being buried by itinerant leaders and their flexible addresses.
“I am not from here, nor am I from there,”
Facundo Cabral made Argentina sing in 1970. Neither he nor those who sang that popular hymn knew that the reality of the unpredictable country was being anticipated half a century.
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