Ignacio Ortelli
07/28/2021 19:01
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 7/28/2021 7:01 PM
Failed negotiations for a unity list and for Agustín Rossi to denounce his candidacy for senator in Santa Fe, the Government sought to lower the tension of the official internal and
left the door open for the Minister of Defense to remain in office
even if he competes in the primaries. This was raised by the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, who, when asked about the situation of Santa Fe and his Social Development partner, Daniel Arroyo, warned that
"there is still no definition" on the early departure of officials
who make up lists.
In permanent contact with
Alberto Fernández
, on a trip to Peru, Cafiero referred to the issue after an act in the Almirante Brown Industrial Park, where he appeared next to the head of the list of Deputies of the Frente de Todos in the province of Buenos Aires, Victoria Tolosa Paz.
It was at noon, when there were still hours until the deadline to introduce changes to the lists expired and there were those who were betting on an agreement in Santa Fe. They were the most optimistic voices but, at the same time, also far from the negotiation: both the governor from Santa Fe, Omar Perotti, who sponsors the formula of the sports journalist Marcelo Lewandowski and the ultra-Kirchnerista María de los Angeles Sacnun, like Rossi himself, already took it for granted from early on that there would be no last minute changes.
In this context, and while Rossi's explosive statements had already resounded in the chats of officials, the Chief of Staff was approached by
Clarín
who asked him if the Government had already made a decision on the future of the Cabinet officials who appear in the STEP.
"
They are two exemplary ministers (for Rossi and Arroyo)
," stressed Cafiero, who in the absence of the President led the government landing in the suburbs.
"The ministers are elected by the President and at the moment there is no type of definition
beyond the speculations
that are made because each one is facing electoral processes," he added.
Faced with the specific cross-examination of whether the ministers should leave their positions in this instance, in the formal prior to the start of the campaign, or eventually when they have to take office in December, Cafiero avoided: "These are definitions that the President is going to take at his discretion. measure and its time. It is his determination and that of the ministers, but
there is still no definition,
"he completed, in what is another curiosity of the Frente de Todos: is that at that same time, the second in the list of the Government in the province,
Daniel Gollan, made official the transfer of his position
as Buenos Aires minister to his vice Nicolás Kreplak, at the request of Governor Axel Kicillof and to enter the electoral contest.
In recent days there was pressure from Kirchnerism and the government for Rossi to decline his candidacy, but the minister held out.
However, in the Casa Rosada they point out
that the cases of Arroyo and Rossi are different from each other
.
In principle, because the head of Social Development is already a candidate, given that the list of the Frente de Todos that he integrates in the province of Buenos Aires is not going to be internal as it is with Rossi.
And at the same time a personal question is imposed. Arroyo prefers to leave his position
.
Rossi, on the other hand, on Wednesday made it clear that he made the decision to
"continue being a minister"
until it is his turn, eventually, to assume his seat as senator.
"The governor (for Perotti) is a candidate for alternate senator and continues to be governor," he replied on radio Urbana, where he reaffirmed his intention to be a candidate.
Although after the closing of lists in Balcarce 50
muttered anger and loudly demanded "an effort to achieve unity"
in Santa Fe, once the deadline for introducing changes has expired, they are preparing to accept internal competition, which in the end is the only one of relevance that the FDT will face.
The declaration of Cafiero, the President's alter ego, in turn implies a cessation of hostilities, after versions that realized that they would force his departure if he did not decline his candidacy, in which - another rarity against the dictatorship - he is seconded by the vice of Perotti, Alejandra Rodenas.
Rossi, in fact, echoed what transpired and in the interview he gave before Cafiero's landing in Brown, he planted:
"The truth is I always thought that Cabinet changes were when there were officials who did not work
, not when a Political leader, with the years of experience that I have in Santa Fe, decides to participate electorally with his own district, "he complained.
Rossi's phrase includes an allusion to those criticisms that Cristina launched last year to a part of the Cabinet and to the certainty that he, at least until this closing of the lists, did not receive reproaches for his management of any of the three important sectors.
Although there is no deadline for a list to decline to participate, once
the time for changes in the lists has expired, in Government House they are resigned to Rossi yielding
.
And now they de-dramatize the internal one, despite the alarm generated by the polls, which mostly show a supremacy of Together for Change.
"What worries us the most is that it is a quiet campaign, without low blows and with respect. If that climate is maintained, there should be no problems (in which Rossi is a candidate," says an important official with an office at Casa Rosada, which opens the question as to how predisposed Perotti was to guarantee unity. "Not only Rossi was left out, also the Evita Movement and even massismo," they conceded.
Rossi, who on Saturday received the call from Fernández to try a unit list, remains firm in his candidacy.
Even before the warning that Sacnun has the support of a sector of Kirchnerism and the doubt that hovers over an agreement between the vice president and the governor for Sacnun's candidacy.
“
That Cristina is allied with Perotti is something to check and verify
.
In the event that this happens (an agreement between Perotti and Cristina Kirchner), there is no problem.
They are simply differences in an internal electoral process in the province of Santa Fe that must be de-dramatized, ”he replied.
For now, Cristina did not ask him to get off
.
