Ignacio Ortelli
08/16/2021 18:07
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/16/2021 18:10
"
As that poster says, La Matanza is with you, dear President
!" Fernando Espinoza did not turn around. At the beginning of his speech, which opened the first act of
Alberto Fernández
at the end of the most difficult week of the head of state due to the revelation of the photo that proved that last year he broke the isolation that he himself imposed by the pandemic, the The mayor who served as host in the most populous district of the Conurbano gave an entrance voice to
the strong support that the Frente de Todos proposed to give to the president
, who in his reappearance renewed - and clarified - his apology "to the people", proposed draw "a new social contract" after his "mistake" for dinner in Olivos and attempted a relaunch of his administration with strong criticism of the opposition.
From early on it was clear that the scene was going to be different from the act on Friday in Olavarría.
Because of the militancy that took over the surroundings, but also because in the almost hour and a half of delay that took place until the start of the inauguration of the University Center for Innovation, initially scheduled for 11.30, they converged
ministers and officials of weight against the journalists who worried about imposing a festive atmosphere.
The premise was to go from defense to offense
and definitely put aside the internal ones in order to ensure the victory on September 12.
In that sense, the arrival of
Mayra Mendoza
, mayor of Quilmes, and the head of the FDT bloc in the Buenos Aires Legislature,
Facundo Tignanelli
, two figures from La Cámpora, reinforced the fierce defense made by the youth group led by
Máximo Kirchner
on Saturday , when he warned that "with half of the media outrage of these days applied to other photos we would have saved ourselves the debt of the next decades."
Mendoza, precisely,
received with a warm clash of fists Juan Pablo Biondi
, the Secretary of Communication and Press -and presidential spokesman- pointed out by ultra-Kirchnerist sectors after the leak of the photo. Any gesture by La Cámpora, in moments of such fragility and when voices are added calling for changes in the presidential environment, is received with more enthusiasm than usual. "
Did you see? Biondi came, they did not hide him despite what (Horacio) Verbitsky asked
, "replied a man from the President's ring of trust, where discomfort abounds against the owner of the portal El Rohete a la Luna for his column" bad milk "on Sunday. "It hits us more than the media that don't love us," they mutter angrily.
Biondi bowed to the rounds of leaders who, before the presidential helicopter appeared, without Kicillof (Espinoza made it clear with uncertain intention that "he arrived by car") formed to liven up the wait.
With a scene with a lot of campaign folklore, in the tour he made, Alberto tried to show another face and gave back each show of affection.
“I needed an act like that.
He was beaten, especially because he swears that he was misunderstood, ”says a heavyweight man who spoke with the president over the weekend.
Alberto F. seemed to vent after his speech in the embrace that he held with the Minister of Education, Nicolás Trotta.
In fact, that feeling was shared by several of those present.
After all, no one expected him to double down.
Not even those who spoke to him the most since the scandal broke.
First, because the head of state
had let it be known that he was not going to refer to the subject again
.
And then, because of the tone to which he appealed, in which he was defiant against opponents and the media, and with the strength to fight against internal questions.
“It was a mistake, I accepted it and apologized.
But they will never have to hear me apologize because I closed the Ministry of Health, Education or Labor.
They will never hear me apologize because I knelt in front of the IMF and put Argentina into debt ", was one of the most celebrated phrases in the troops themselves.
“The one who says that Alberto told him that he was going to turn out like this is lying.
He thought about it by himself and he surprised us
", they say in his surroundings, where they did not rule out that, when he referred to the" miserable "who had said that he blamed Fabiola Yáñez for the dinner, he alluded to the Buenos Aires Minister of Security,
Sergio Berni
, who reproached him for his attitude in an open letter released over the weekend.
Before Alberto F.'s strong reaction,
the ruling party's strategy had been shaped by the Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillo
f, who in his speech focused on questioning Mauricio Macri and his predecessor María Eugenia Vidal. "They did not do schools, kindergartens or anything that they promised in the (2015) campaign," he questioned. "He said 'what is this about universities everywhere?'" He recalled a phrase from the former president.
If Kicillof's silence had fueled doubts about his position, it was at the end of his speech that he threw an endorsement of the President. “This is the way, Fernando (Espinoza), Verónica (Magario) and Alberto.
They can distract us with discussions, they can distract us with operations
, but this is the reality that generates transformations ”, he remarked. And he emboldened the small platform that Espinoza drew up to measure, to guarantee songs but at the same time not to create an image that would have a negative impact by not respecting social distancing. Thus, the summoned crowd remained on the outskirts of the property. This time, the second candidate on the list of Deputies, Daniel Gollan, a former Buenos Aires Minister of Health, did not object.