Ignacio Ortelli
07/29/2021 3:39 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/29/2021 3:39 PM
"
I found out that I have to resign on television
."
The confession made by the Minister of Defense, Agustín Rossi, on radio La Red exposed once again the problems faced by Alberto Fernández's management to internally resolve the crises that arise in the ruling coalition.
The untidiness with which the Santa Fe received the order to leave his post was more bombastic for obeying the electoral bid in Santa Fe, where part of Kirchnerism supports the formula sponsored by Governor Omar Perotti, but it was not the only one: hours before , Daniel Arroyo had already told his collaborators in Social Development to prepare to continue until December, when he was supposed to take office in Congress.
The sequence of ministers finding out on TV can eventually be a coup of authority for a President who lives with the centrality of the figure of Cristina Kirchner, but the repetition of that methodology can interpret a weakness.
The "wear and tear" to which the former Minister of Justice, Marcela Losardo
, a friend of the President,
was subjected
, whose resignation was announced on television to satisfy the internal claim but was later forced to remain in office until a replacement was found, perhaps it was the most forceful.
The departure of María Eugenia Bielsa
from Territorial Development and Habitat, to precipitate the arrival of ultra K Jorge Ferraresi, and
Alejandro Vanoli (ANSeS)
, who was succeeded by camper Fernanda Raverta, are other examples.
"We have to take better care of each other. To invent interns there is the opposition that wants to divide us since we returned," is the reflection of an important official, close to Fernández but with good harmony in the K universe.
On this occasion, the President's movements to resolve the conflict from Peru, when he spoke with C5N, even exposed a part of his troops that had been left watching his back in Buenos Aires.
Those who defend the forms, point out that he sought to put an end to the internal. But the issue exceeds the Cabinet since it involves an important portion of the Frente de Todos. It is that on the one hand Rossi is seconded by the deputy governor of Santa Fe Alejandra Rodenas, but in the list for Deputies, there are massista leaders and the Evita Movement as candidates, while the list sponsored by Perotti (it is the first alternate senator) received the blessing of La Cámpora -during this Wednesday, in full boiling, referents of the group were in charge of spreading the payroll- because it takes second from the Bielsista Marcelo Lewandoski to
María de los Angeles Sacnun, Cristina Kirchner's side in the Senate.
But beyond the names, the novel has a symbolic side for the FDT: in 2017, in the midst of the discussion for the retirement reform of Mauricio Macri, a group of leaders opposed to his government, but with different political terminals, within and Outside of Peronism, it began to weave from the agreements to build an army that would allow it to defeat the ruling party.
Those were times when the triumph in the Legislative Legislature of the exchange-rate formula led by Esteban Bullrich before Cristina had Cambiemos and the bulk of the opposition to think more about the discussion of Macri's succession in 2023, than in 2019. The scandal over the pension reform, which closed ranks on both sides, was a shock that some knew how to read. "With Cristina alone it is not enough, without Cristina either", was the premise that later infected the rest, including leaders, such as Perotti and even Sergio Massa, who were on another frequency. Curiosities of politics, Rossi, Arroyo and the current President converged in that small group of leaders, who after Florencio Randazzo's frustrated electoral experience changed the chip and began the path back to Kirchnerism.
The review back also has a replica today. Without being a friend of the President, and resisted by La Cámpora, Rossi aligned himself with the Casa Rosada since he took office. His management avoided questions and, in 20 months, his name was never on the table of the "officials who do not work."
Close to the Santa Fe, they even point out that it was Fernández himself who encouraged him to compete in Santa Fe
and asked him until a few weeks ago.
In Balcarce 50, where Rossi was mentioned as a possible candidate, they do not deny it, but warn that "the priority was always and will continue to be unity." The same thing the head of state made him know to his minister on Saturday of the closing of lists. In his WhatsApp, a while later, he received the details of the proposed agreement extended to Perotti.
In Defense they insist that the "Chivo" was willing to lower his candidacy for senator
and even went so far as to concede that he would not appear on the ballot of Deputies. Also, that it was not one of his armed forces who would head that payroll if the rest of the list was released for his sector. The rest of the story is known.
Without an agreement, between Monday and Tuesday, the Fernández administration lobbied for Rossi to decline his application.
The Interior Minister, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro
, who, in his double role as a reference for La Cámpora, sent a message by elevation,
was also involved in the strategy
.
"I regret that the example of Cristina (Kirchner) of prioritizing the collective interest over the individual ones has not reached all the leaders," he launched in dialogue with Iván Schargrodsky, in a wink to Perotti and in a direct dart to Rossi.
But he decided to resist the onslaught.
After all, he did not receive an express order from Cristina to get off.
On the other hand, as he assured this Thursday in his media raid, no one made him a condition that if he went ahead he should resign from the Ministry of Defense.
Cristina's silence generated confusion inside the Government
: Rossi was for more than a decade an unconditional soldier of her troops and, especially, a fundamental pillar in the resistance between 2015 and 2019. The vice's ambiguity may have contributed to the confusion.
For this reason, during the morning and the first hours of the afternoon of this Wednesday, the Government was already resigned to the fact that there was an intern.
“What worries us the most is that it be a calm campaign, without low blows and with respect.
If that climate is maintained, there should be no problems (with Rossi being a candidate), ”repeated officials with an office at Casa Rosada.
They supported the message of the Chief of Staff,
Santiago Cafiero, who after an act in Almirante Brown had said that Alberto F. had not yet taken "a definition"
regarding the departure of the ministers who were candidates.
There are malicious voices that maintain that, like Rossi, the official whom the head of state considers his alter ego also found out on television.
However, his first reaction when he received the call from Rossi making his resignation official was to ask him to wait "until Alberto returns."
Fact: It is not yet clear who will replace him.
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