Federico Mayol
08/09/2021 18:02
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/09/2021 18:04
His name had already haunted the cabinet as a possible successor to Felipe Solá, but the foreign minister was never replaced and
Jorge Taiana
confided to his friends that he was comfortable in the Senate, and that he did not want to return to the San Martín Palace.
The link with Alberto Fernández had had a strong sizzle in the third week of February as a result of the VIP Vaccination scandal
revealed by this newspaper that ended with
Ginés González García outside the Government
and the senator, one of the beneficiaries, without the ticket to travel to Mexico: summoned by the President to be part of the delegation, Fernández himself got him off the plane for the secret operation in the Ministry of Health.
Witnesses from those weeks assure that
the head of state later apologized to Taiana
.
That even the senator, now newly appointed Minister of Defense, had planned to travel two weeks ago with the presidential entourage to Peru.
It was not part of the game because he had a pending operation of the view.
Son of Jorge Alberto Taiana, Juan Perón's personal physician -he was also Minister of Education and the former Chancellor his Chief of Cabinet, in 1973-, and of extensive militancy in Peronism, the senator
met again with Cristina Kirchner in 2017 as his running mate
at the launch of Unidad Ciudadana.
Jorge Taiana and Cristina Kirchner at the closing of the campaign of the 2017 elections for senators at the Racing stadium.
Photo Mario Quinteros.
Taiana had left the Foreign Ministry on terrible terms
in 2010, after five years in office, first with Néstor Kirchner and later with the former president. After a stint in Parlasur and the Buenos Aires Legislature,
he opposed society between his former colleagues from the Evita Movement and Florencio Randazzo
in the 2017 legislative elections and seconded the former President.
He replaced her in the Senate in 2019,
when the Fernández-Fernández formula prevailed in the presidential elections.
"
It is the tone of an official that Alberto wants
," they explained this Monday at Casa Rosada a while after
Santiago Cafiero
unveiled the unknown about the replacement of Agustín Rossi in Defense, which will be made official this Tuesday along with the appointment of Juan Zabaleta in Social development.
Jorge Taiana with Alberto Fernández.
Taiana was this Sunday in the Quinta de Olivos, in a meeting in which the President warned him that he wanted to add him to the cabinet.
On Friday, the appointed minister still did not know anything about his future.
But he sat across from
Jake Sullivan
, the White House's top national security adviser, at the U.S. embassy during the official's visit to the country, for his role as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
They say he had an exposure that convinced Sullivan.
He was lucky: the Defense Ministry is key in the link between the Argentine government and that of
Joseph Biden
.
