07/28/2021 11:55 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/28/2021 12:45 PM
Defense Minister Agustín Rossi this Wednesday added a new chapter to the tense internal politics in the Government due to the electoral dispute of the Frente de Todos in Santa Fe and ratified his candidacy for senator, despite the request of President Alberto Fernández that there be a list of unit in the province.
"The truth is,
I always thought that Cabinet changes occurred when there were officials who did not work
, not when a political leader with the years of experience that I have in the province of Santa Fe and throughout the country decides to participate electorally with his own district "Rossi launched after ensuring that the President did not ask him to resign from his position.
"And what is going to happen with the ministry?" Rossi was asked, who answered bluntly: "I'm going to continue being a minister."
In addition, and when asked if he would be a minister and a candidate at the same time, he emphasized: "And if the governor is a candidate for alternate senator and continues to be governor?"
In an interview with Radio
Urbana
, Rossi said that the president asked him to make "all the necessary efforts so that there is a list of unity" and that he sought, without success, different options with the space headed by Omar Perotti.
"I offered an alternative, that as there are two categories, senators and deputies, that a unity formula be integrated with a list integrating one category and the other list with the other category. They told me it could be. I imagined that if the governor was going to Being the alternate senator, we could participate with me heading the list of deputies, and the governor
specifically told me that he did not want me to be on the ballot even
though I am the one who measures the most in all the polls, and I did not like it but I kept trying ", detailed Rossi.
And he added: "I offered a list of national deputies headed by the lieutenant governor (Alejandra Rodenas) and they also told me no, and then they told me that
in reality what they did not want is for us to participate
."
Asked whether the President objected to his decision, he ruled: "Alberto didn't tell me anything."
The internal Santa Fe gives an account of the tension in the Executive with the head of the Defense portfolio.
It is that on Perotti's list is Senator María de los Ángeles Sacnún, who is one of the legislators closest to Cristina Kirchner in the upper house, and that inclusion is read as a message of support from the vice presidency to the governor's list .
As
Clarín
reported
, the agreement between the provincial president and the vice president was to draw up a list of unity between the Belisista Marcelo Lewandowski and the Cristinista Sacnun.
"That is to be verified. It is to verify if this has Cristina's agreement or not. But in the event that this happens, there is no problem, they are simply differences in the construction of an internal electoral process in Santa Fe," said Rossi .
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