08/16/2021 18:29
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 08/16/2021 6:29 PM
Lying, the truth, they
have all lied
.
There has been no president in Argentina for at least the last 50 years who has not lied
in an almost blatant way
at some point, not including unfulfilled campaign promises, which would even be “sportily” acceptable.
Each one will have an example of this among their own memories.
Why then do so many people
find
Fabiola Yáñez's 39th birthday
party
in Olivos
unforgivable
?
Probably the main reason is that
there are plenty of reasons
. The famous straw that broke the camel's back, which then spilled unstoppably due to
the poverty - or the clumsiness - of the explanations provided by Alberto Fernández
. That started on Friday, when he blamed his wife for organizing the meeting, and continued this Monday, in a campaign event in La Matanza.
Fernández said there: “I am not, nor do I make myself, I do
not have a double face
. I spent the weekend reading what the hypocrites wrote and I got tired of receiving the affection of my colleagues. And the more I saw that they criticized me, the happier I was to be with my colleagues and with this people ”. Precisely, the criticisms were due to its double face, which it was proven that it had, and because of the error that in theory it was admitting. Who would be the hypocrites then?
And he immediately stepped on the stick again: “Indeed, in the pandemic, due to a slip, a meal was organized in Olivos that it should not have organized.
And I did not walk around:
in less than 24 hours
I came out to say that this should not have happened.
The truth is that the President
came out to say that a year and a month after it happened
.
In fact, Fabiola already turned 40. The 24 hours passed after meeting the second photo of last year's birthday and when she had already come out to say that all her encounters in the quarantine had been for work.
It is all so rude that not even the most faithful practitioners of the ruling party can find a worthy defense against the scandal.
The social condemnation for "the toast" is also explained, above all, in that while the President and his partner celebrated without restrictions,
many people died
, others lost their jobs and everyone else - all those who did not belong to the privileged power caste,
the one that was later vaccinated before
- we suffered because we couldn't even send the boys to school or see our beloved people. The pandemic was more democratic even than hyperinflation.
As Mariel Fornoni, director of Management & Fit, said in a survey that 22% of voters already decided by the Frente de Todos would change their shirt for Cumplegate: "When the news was known we imagined a very strong repercussion by the sensitivity of society. It is striking that
more than 90% knew about the subject
. When we measured other news, perhaps only 40% of the people heard it. Here, everyone found out. "
Stones for the Covid dead in front of Quinta de Olivos this Monday.
Photo: Marcelo Carroll.
That is why this Monday the stones accumulated in front of the Presidential Palace and in the Plaza de Mayo. # 16A became one of those
manifestations of exhaustion in the face of impunity
, as was the massive march after the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman. With a gesture as simple as it is full of meaning - a stone to remember those who are no longer there, drawing on the Jewish funeral tradition, and very different from the protest that chooses stones, but to throw them at something - thousands of people said enough.
It is
the worst scenario
for the Government.
Because there is no protagonist to criticize, but a collective and anonymous malaise.
It is difficult to speak ill of those who embody the mourning for almost 110,000 deaths, more when part of which are due to
gross errors in the strategy to obtain vaccines
against Covid.
Just four weeks before the PASO, and without significant achievements in other hot areas such as insecurity, for the ruling party
everything happens to criticize Mauricio Macri
for his mismanagement, even with the risk involved in playing with fire: the debate on the The economy may swiftly turn from the "heavy legacy" received two years ago to the very current
indomitable 50% inflation
.
It will be necessary to see if in the days that remain until the elections the ruling party manages to twist the course of the discussion. If your back is left to establish another agenda, something that, it is fair to admit, Kirchnerism practiced like no other political force since it came to power.
He is in an unenviable situation, with little margin:
losing the elections would further weaken an already weakened President
, who for worse will have to pay for the party of having stepped on the dollar, issued billions to put some pesos in the pockets of the voters and increased subsidies to Christianity levels.
An uncontrolled devaluation could unleash an extremely damaging vicious cycle, as Macri himself can attest.
Fernández has two more years of mandate ahead of him.
In certain circumstances, they could amount to an eternity.
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