08/15/2021 7:40 PM
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 08/15/2021 7:40 PM
"We have to make this clear: the President did not screw anyone."
Of all the official sayings in recent days about the party in Olivos in the midst of a very strict quarantine that a photo revealed, the one about
Santiago Cafiero reveals
like no other
the conception of power
that nests in the ruling cast.
And that is in the antipodes of what the Nobel Prize winner Albert Schweitzer repeated: “The example is not the main thing to influence others.
Its the only thing".
In his particular style, the Chief of Staff suggests many things, all of them worrying. One is the one that takes ahead the democratic principle of
equality before the law
. According to his words, the
President is above it
, even the one that he himself encourages. The other is
the consecration of hypocrisy.
“I tell idiots that the Argentina of the living is over
; Whoever violates the quarantine will be subjected to the full rigor of the law, ”said Alberto Fernández on March 20 of last year. Six days later, in an interview on Telefe, he reinforced the concept: “Here we are talking about people's health,
I am not going to allow them to do what they want
. If you get it the right way, I love it. If not, they have given me the power to understand it the hard way, and in democracy, understanding it the hard way is that they end up in front of a judge explaining what they did ”. They say that man is the master of his silences and the slave of his words.
It must be recognized that the President was giving some indications that, indoors, the
presidential residence
had its
own rules in times of Covid
. On August 29 of last year, on C5N, Fernández was asked what he was going to do the next day, Sunday: “
If I tell you what I'm going to do tomorrow, I'm going to have people at Olivos' door
waiting. I have lunch with people I love. I'll play the guitar a little bit ”. A week ago the photo of
Alberto F. and Fabiola Yáñez with Hugo Moyano
, his wife and son after lunch
had transcended
, without complying with the rules of social, preventive and compulsory isolation, which already unleashed at that time the
controversy in social networks
.
In another interview, the President had argued that "when someone approaches, I leave him at a safe distance,
I
do
n't stick to him too much and I forget about hugs
, shaking hands."
That photo, the one known today of Fabiola's birthday: a picture is worth a thousand words.
At the beginning of May 2020, Great Britain was moved by news: the “Daily Telegraph” newspaper revealed that Neil Ferguson, epidemiologist, government adviser and architect of the rules of distancing in the country, had violated the quarantine that he fought to impose. .
His girlfriend had crossed London twice to visit him
.
Ferguson took over, admitted it as "
an error in judgment
" and chose to resign.
Let us remember the official course in terms of explanations when the income leaked to Olivos. First, it was said that the visits were only due to
work meetings
. Later, that the
party was fake news
. When the photo appeared, the explanation was that it was faked. And, finally, before the irrefutable evidence, that
the fault had been of the First Lady
, "my dear Fabiola", with the
condescending tone
with which the decision made by someone who is considered not too qualified to do so is judged.
A macho version but, yes, much more
moderate than that of the other Fernández
, Aníbal, who brought out the most stale of the discursive arsenal on the matter: the husband, at the time the President, arrives (at a house from which does not go out ...), he meets the party that his wife organized -women are for those things, he needed to add- and we already know, in the XXI century he cannot screw it up, as the handsome men of the 900 did. Therefore, it follows, he has no choice but to relax, enjoy, and
pose smiling indoors, without chinstraps or social distance
with the guests. Shame beyond the nth power.
Returning to Cafiero, -the same one who said recently that "Argentina is not that shitty country that sometimes they try to portray us" -, he completed his remarks about the photo of Olivos, clarifying that the
explanations are due
in any case to
the people, not the opposition
. Another healthy exercise in democratic education.