08/16/2021 18:45
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/16/2021 6:45 PM
The same day that President Alberto Fernández again apologized for the celebration of Fabiola Yañez's birthday at Quinta de Olivos in the midst of a pandemic, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Massa, came out to defend him, who pointed at Mauricio Macri to justify the President, by comparison.
"I listened to him at noon.
It is from a man of good to recognize mistakes
, as our President did, to
ask for forgiveness,
" Massa started at a handover ceremony for patrol cars and ambulances in Florencio Varela, in the south of the suburbs and as a campaign key.
Like Alberto Fernández this afternoon in La Matanza, Massa replicated the method: he shot Juntos por el Cambio.
"I wonder those who closed schools, those who abandoned hospitals, those who put ten generations of Argentines into debt in a minute and a half, abandoned public works, left 100,000 homes unfinished, promised the eliminated income tax and they duplicated it,
when are they going to apologize
to the Argentines
for their failure
".
Massa's was one
of the most closed defenses to Fernández
who, after denying the celebration and blaming his partner, the first lady, this Monday
took over
the controversial celebration under strict quarantine at the official residence.
He added, in his version of events: "The President
took 24 hours to apologize
and in reality we see that those who intend to build the alternation of government, all they do is
hide the man who failed and cross candidates from one side to the other
to see if they can hide that failure, instead of assuming with humility and good manhood, as Alberto did today: a mistake is admitted, guilt is acknowledged and forgiveness is asked. "
A dart for Mauricio Macri, who reappears in the campaign.
The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Massa, on a campaign tour in Florencio Varela.
Moments later, he again compared Fernández to criticize
Macri, without naming him
: "We never heard them apologize for setting up
judicial operations and persecuting people
. It is clear that they do not know how to build and so they bet on destroying."
Massa was one of the leaders of the Frente de Todos who accompanied the President to the event in Olavarría, in the province of Buenos Aires, where last Friday Fernández rehearsed the first apology for the scandal of the celebration of Yáñez's birthday.
Three days later, Massa was present together with the mayor of Florencio Varela, Andrés Watson, in the delivery of
40 patrol cars and three ambulances
to strengthen the municipal security and emergency system, and inaugurate the opening of Tinogasta street, an access artery to the district.
Sergio Massa accompanied Alberto Fernández in Olavarria, in the first apology for the scandal at Quinta de Olivos.
The former mayor of Tigre highlighted the investment made by the municipality and considered that "the development and improvement of the neighborhoods pushes towards a new quality of life for the people. It is a
difficult
job
because we are in a pandemic
, but despite everything Florencio Varela continued go ahead with a plan of
works that generate satisfaction
".
The Buenos Aires Chief of Cabinet, Carlos Bianco, and the second candidate for national deputy for the ruling party, Daniel Gollán, among others, also participated in the meeting.
Second apology from the President
As part of the inauguration of the University Center for Innovation (CUDI) that will operate in the town of González Catán, La Matanza, this afternoon Alberto Fernández stopped to refer to the Olivos scandal again.
"
The only person responsible is me
, I take charge, I stand up and take charge of all this. And if anyone thinks that they are going to make me fall for a mistake I made, know it:
they strengthen
me, they generate stronger convictions in me" , he emphasized from a Kirchnerist stronghold.
President Alberto Fernández, at the opening of a university center in La Matanza.
"Some
read my sincere, honest words
, of regret in their own way.
Some were so miserable
that they said I blamed my partner," added Fernández.
He insisted: "I move like a common man, I feel like a common man and sometimes I do not take into account that I am the president and I must lead by example. It was a mistake, I assumed it and apologized."
And as Massa did from Florencio Varela, the President also pointed out to the previous government: "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 to the IMF and I indebted to Argentina ".
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Alberto Fernández, on the birthday in Olivos during the quarantine: "They will not make me fall for the mistake I made"
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