08/22/2021 7:41 PM
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 08/22/2021 7:41 PM
"Sometimes I move like a common man and
I do not take into account that I am the president and I must lead by example
." A confession of a party relay test. Despite the 20 months and 13 days that he has been the main inhabitant of Quinta de Olivos, Alberto Fernández still has a hard time realizing where he is. In any other case, the statement would be rather more than curious. In the one at hand, there are mitigating factors. It was certainly not thinking about the necessary acclimatization for her running mate that
Cristina Kirchner
launched on Wednesday in La Plata that "
the life we want requires many periods of government
."
What's more: the lack of a presidential location in time, space and position should be contributed a lot by the voice of the vice president, interrupting him in the middle of a speech, pointing out the "officials who do not work", or giving the direct order, almost a challenge, microphone in hand, in that tone that we all know: "
Alberto, put order in what you have to put
and
put it
forward." They are the problems that arise when the position is in one place and the power in another.
Anyway, the President's dismissal does not prevent him from making comparisons like the one he made with nothing less than with
San Martín,
who, he said, "looked at the country like us." In the midst of the dissemination of the images of the celebration in Olivos in full quarantine, where it became clear how from the presidential residence its main occupant
erased with his elbow the decree that he wrote with his hand
, it is worth rescuing some wise words of the hero, namely : "You cannot make a promise that cannot or should not be kept." or "My name is already famous enough for me to stain it with the violation of my promises."
Without going so far back in time, another voice supposedly friendly to Fernández rose to take a position on Olivosgate: "There must be birthday crowds that were celebrated in the middle of the pandemic, but
the presidents cannot be forgiven,
" said the former Uruguayan President José Pepe Mujica.
Despite so many repercussions, and polls that indicate that
9 out of 10 Argentines are aware
of what happened with the birthday party of First Lady Fabiola Yáñez, the ineffable Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, in addition to maintaining that "there was no crime ”, he insists that no one talks to him about the photo and that the issue is not on“ the agenda that matters to people ”.
The polls seem to deny it: a study by Management & Fit revealed that
60% ask for sanctions for the President
, since they consider what happened as "a scandal that deserves consequences", and that one in five will stop voting for the Frente de Todos a starting from this. Another survey, by the consulting firm Synopsis, established that for 71.7% of those surveyed,
the celebration in Olivos was "an error, a crime and an immorality".
It seems that despite what Cafiero thinks, people's heads are in the flagrant violation of the rules that he is desperately trying to get out of the public spotlight. In an almost childish and nothing new
way
,
the way to cover up one's own guilt is to try to find others'
. The politics of the folder in other ways. Now they tried to do it with the birthday celebration of Elisa Carrió. Beyond the explanations in this regard provided on the side of the leader of the Civic Coalition, the message is quite sad,
as if the eventual noncompliance
of a norm would
lessen its own gravity.
.
With a question to clear: if the Government believed that there was a crime in that public and notorious celebration, with photos disseminated by networks by the same honored woman,
why did it not denounce it then
?
Is it by chance that he does so now that the scandal of the President's partner's birthday has broken out?
The operation seems quite rude.
It is known: there is no better defense than a good attack.
Anyway: despite all the evidence, perhaps it is as Cafiero says and the head of the people is really in the things that matter: the economy, inflation, growth, insecurity, unemployment, education, vaccination with two doses.
With how well everyone is doing, the government need not worry about the minutiae of some birthday photos.