07/29/2021 10:13 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/29/2021 10:13 AM
Defense Minister Agustín Rossi affirmed this Thursday that the Executive had not warned him that if he was a candidate he should resign from his post and assured that he found out on television, during an interview with President Alberto Fernández.
"
My resignation is available
. The President will say when I have to make it effective. I spoke with the Chief of Staff (Santiago Cafiero) and he told me to hope that the President" of Peru returns, he specified in statements to
El Uncover
radio
.
The official said that he learned from television the Executive's position that all those who are candidates have to resign from their positions to dedicate themselves to the campaign.
"I am not surprised from the point of view of equity, ethics. I
found out
the decision
on TV when the President said it,
"
he said
, referring to the report from Peru.
"All those who are candidates must leave their positions"
, were the words of the head of state in C5N.
The reference was to Rossi's timely departure, but also to that of Daniel Arroyo, from Social Development;
and the second-line official Victoria Tolosa Paz, head of the Federal Council for Social Policy.
Alberto Fernández traveled to Peru upon the assumption of his peer Pedro Castillo.
Presidency photo
Last night, Rossi indicated that he will be presented as a candidate for senator of the Frente de Todos for the province of Santa Fe in the PASO of September 12 and that he will move away from the national portfolio that he currently leads.
"I will have absolute freedom to give the political debate that Santa Fe needs.
The President has just said that all the candidates will have to leave our function, a decision that shows the deep ethical sense of the President," Rossi said last night in statements to the signal Todo News (TN).
When asked about the dissatisfaction of the President and Vice Cristina Kirchner with his candidacy, Rossi replied that he is not aware of this situation.
And he highlighted his decision to go against Governor Omar Perotti's list.
The candidate said that the provincial president has a plan to generate a
"distance"
with national politics and a distance with Kirchnerist Peronism.
Along these lines, he described the name
Hajando Santa Fe
, which related it to
Hazando Córdoba
, owned by Governor Juan Schiaretti.
And he assured that Perotti's decision to go as alternate senator is to
"make Alberto and Cristina invisible and begin to remove Peronism from the Frente de Todos
.
"
"Santa Fe fe needs leaders, senators and deputies who will defend it to the Congress of the Nation, who act as a source between their own singularities and national policies," he declared.
For his part, Governor Perotti chose not to respond directly to what he considered a "grievance" on Rossi's part.
And he sought to detract from the drama of the internal dispute.
"I am not speaking to them in a STEP only addressed to the members of the PJ, I am speaking to all the people of Santa Fe," he
explained about his electoral strategy.
On the other hand, he pointed out that the disputes in the elections prior to the general elections "tend to become too dramatized" and assured: "Afterwards we will all work together."
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