Guido Carelli Lynch
08/15/2021 3:18 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/15/2021 3:18 PM
The criticism of the Frente de Todos allies to the inner circle of President
Alberto Fernández
after the revelation of the birthday celebration of the first lady
Fabiola Yañez
during the strict quarantine did not go unnoticed in Olivos and in the most important offices of the Casa Rosada. Although this weekend they sought to end the slip with speeches and publications on Twitter, from the Instituto Patria, La Cámpora, the massismo and within the Cabinet
, expressions of discomfort over the unforced errors
in full campaign and less than a month of the PASO. In any case, there is a decision made:
the head of state will not lower his profile or give up prominence in the campaign.
Senator
Oscar Parrilli
, president of the
Christian
think tank
and a man of maximum confidence of Vice President
Cristina Kirchner
, had been in charge of making the questions explicit. "The President has made a mistake and it is necessary to make a
call to attention to those who are at his side
so as not to make this type of mistakes again," said the former secretary in a radio interview.
The observations of the allies of the ruling party to the men of maximum confidence of the president
focused on the communication of the Executive
.
“There is nothing easier than blaming communication.
Alberto is old enough to take care of himself.
Of the one who says that we do not take care of him, we can give a list of the batons they made.
Who did he take care of? ”, Answered some of the leaders closest to the President.
The photo of Alberto Fernández with the first lady Fabiola Yañez and a group of friends at the Quinta de Olivos during the strict quarantine last year.
The criticism of the members of the Frente de Todos fell on the Secretary of Communication
Juan Pablo Biondi
, one of the officials who does not lose footing the President wherever he goes and who, in the past,
had already suffered in his own flesh the “friendly fire” of ultra-Kirchner leaders such
as the originally designated and finally never official ambassador in Moscow
Alicia Castro
, who complained at the end of 2020 because Biondi had not applauded Cristina during an act in La Plata.
Friendly
fire also falls on
Julio Vitobello
, in charge of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, since Parrilli held for 11 years.
Vitobello is in charge of the administration of the Casa Rosada, the Olivos residence and Casa Militar, which
manages the presidential custody and was
caught
in the eye of the storm due to the publication of the
visitation
records
and after the revelation of the birthday photos. de Yañez published by La Nación +.
In the Executive, anyway, they
insist that there were no malicious leaks
and that the publication of the income to Olivos was transparent, after a request for Access to Information.
The role of the President in campaign
Criticisms of the presidential environment also
affect the Chief of Staff Santiago Cafiero
, who was objected to during the first year of his administration by the allies.
In Olivos they believe that the criticisms against the coordinating minister were measured, because until the eve of the closing of lists, La Cámpora and the massismo
promoted the idea that he resigned
to head the official ballot in the province.
From the heart of Albertism, meanwhile, they focus on the figure of the President and assure that he will not resign his role in the remainder of the campaign, as had been established before the scandal. This Monday he is scheduled to appear with the candidates in La Matanza. Cristina could accompany him.
Alberto Fernández, the day he spoke of the scandal over the photo of Olivos.
They list, first of all, political reasons. The destiny of the head of state is that of all the allies of the ruling front. “The die is cast for all the leaders of the Frente de Todos. If it doesn't work out, it's not that it doesn't work out for Alberto. It doesn't work out for any of them. Alberto, with all his problems and mistakes - the vaccination, the resignation of Ginés (González García) and Fabiola's birthday -
is the leader who measures the most
. You may like it more or less, but they are numbers that everyone has ”, they wield from the top of power.
This statement reveals that in the Casa Rosada
they do not consider Fernández's chances of reelection buried
, which in recent months some ministers -such as the Cristinista Jorge Ferraresi- dared to make explicit.
In the last hours, the
presumed vice preference for Governor Axel Kicillof to
be the presidential candidate in 2023 came back into force. There is an eternity to go.
The gesture of Máximo and La Cámpora
Meanwhile, the head of La Cámpora,
Máximo Kirchner
,
extended a hand to the President
and questioned the opposition in a ceremony in Cañuelas with the candidates
Daniel Gollán
and
Victoria Tolosa Paz
. “Suddenly we see them feigning outrage and making considerations that have nothing to do with the reality of Argentines. We have to listen to everything, and many times when we see the trials of our president and our government, we ask ourselves the reason for many things, "reflected the head of the ruling bloc.
La Cámpora sought to lower the decibels of internal short circuits
with a publication on social networks and pointed against the outrage of the media.
"With half of the media outrage of these days applied to other photos, we would have saved ourselves the debt of the next decades," said the organization in a photo in which then-president
Mauricio Macri
is seen
at a dinner in Olivos with the authorities of the IMF.
The tweet that La Cámpora chose to criticize the media and Macri, and defend Alberto Fernández.
The vice president's appeal on Thursday -when the birthday photo was already circulating on social networks- to
Fernández's “political naivety”
for his institutional responsibility between the PASO and the general elections of 2019, which allowed Mauricio Macri to cut the advantage It was also worth some reflections from the leaders closest to the President.
"It's his opinion. Alberto was not naive when he closed with private bondholders and with the Paris Club. You have to go to the facts ”, they contrasted near the President, where they defend that
the head of state does not give up prominence towards the elections
. They list personal and political lapses of the main leaders of Juntos por el Cambio, from the contagion of the family of María Eugenia Vidal to the separation of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and the alleged quarantine violations of Macri.
"If they who put the country into debt are campaigning, why shouldn't we do it?"
they wonder.
That was the tone chosen by the ministers and officials closest to the President, who this weekend came out to defend him in a true media raid.
"They asked for the ball" -as Aníbal Fernández
said- Cafiero, Gabriel Katopodis, Sabina Frederic, Juan Zabaleta, Cecilia Todesca and even the most silent Matías Kulfas and Claudio Moroni
.
The electoral impact
In the Casa Rosada they maintain that the photos of the first lady's birthday - that on Friday and Saturday she participated in photos and official events with the President (a kind of redress after the president's statements in Olavarría) - will not affect the results of the elections, despite the fact that
some polls are beginning to suggest that there could be an impact
.
In the ruling party they justify that tough voters who establish an emotional connection with the main forces will not modify their decision. And they
add that the soft and independent voters focus their choice on the economy and on the pocket
. With an optimistic conclusion: despite the current crisis, they feel stronger than JxC in both categories.