Santiago Fioriti
08/29/2021 7:01 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/29/2021 7:01 AM
“Alberto, you have to listen to us more.
We are the ones who support you all your life.
Who is going to help you if this gets complicated? ”Cristina asked Alberto Fernández in one of their last conversations.
The talk was
frontal, risque, without compassion
for the personal moment or for the crisis that is shaking the president.
One talk among so many.
There were worse, it is true.
The anger with Alberto comes from afar, but it worsened after the leak of the celebrations in Olivos. Cristina encouraged him in a public act to "order what you have to order." The issue, according to her,
has not been ordered
. It persists and emerges in any political gathering. Nor is it a finished issue, as the Albertista environment tries to convey -despite the accusation that it has just received from the prosecutor Ramiro González-, nor is it always approached under the glass of the electoral panic it generates.
Sometimes the figure of Fernández becomes the object of mockery
. Better not repeat the things that are said in the Instituto Patria or in the circles of La Cámpora when the weather relaxes. Alberto is less hurtful. He calls the camper leaders
"the cousins"
and in their environment they are called
"the onions".
Cristina ordered this week to go out to defend her partner.
The spirit of self-preservation prevails.
Only two weeks separate the Argentines from the primaries.
"You cannot win an election with a weak president
," reason those who feed on Christian thought.
The first to accelerate was the Minister of Territorial Development and Habitat, Jorge Ferraresi.
Alberto's project is eight years old, he said on La Red radio. Ferraresi is the vice president of the Instituto Patria.
He installed a theme that would have generated internal sting if he had tried, for example, Santiago Cafiero.
Ferraresi did it and nothing happened.
Or if. After the interview, other men from the Frente de Todos, more closely linked to Alberto, such as the ministers Juan Zabaleta, Sabina Frederic and the candidate for deputy Daniel Arroyo, came out to express the same. No one can assert that the re-election plan is being considered today. It is what should be said and it was Cristina who designed the maneuver. “When the potatoes burn
we come out the dirty, ugly and bad ones. The usual ones.
Afterwards, those who want to always be well-groomed in the photo joined in, ”says a man who talks weekly with the former president.
Alberto may have found a brief period of calm, but a few hours later
he was already involved in a new controversy
. Sitting in the studios of Radio 10, at the Kirchner Cultural Center, he fell into the trap of believing that he can speak like a common man - to use his own words - and not like a head of state with the weight of an administration behind him. His radical stance in favor of the teacher Laura Radetich - recorded by a student while he shouted criticism of Macrismo and supported Kirchnerism -
generated a shock in his own Cabinet and among the candidates
. The day before, the Minister of Education, Nicolás Trotta, had said that the Casa Rosada was opposed "to all kinds of indoctrination."
From the Christian sectors they once again charged against the lack of planning. A similar event had already happened with Trotta. On April 14, the minister said in the morning that schools would not close again; hours later, Alberto decreed otherwise. This time, Trotta argued that his resignation was available; Now the same did not happen, but his colleagues in the Cabinet showed solidarity and chewed anger. A new snub from the boss to his collaborators.
With the passing of the hours, however,
the one who began to be left alone was Alberto
. Yesterday, the two main applicants of the Frente de Todos - chosen by him - distanced themselves and seemed to adopt concepts more similar to those of their rivals. "I did not like. The teacher has a role of power that he has to know how to identify, ”said Leandro Santoro, from Buenos Aires. Alberto had said that the teacher opened people's heads. “He did not act based on his training. She is removed from her post for something, "said Victoria Tolosa Paz from Buenos Aires.
The biggest annoyance with Fernández from some officials on Friday was that no one had pressed him on the issue. They said that he had only launched himself to answer questions, when from some related sectors they ask for fewer appearances. It went unnoticed, but Fernández confessed it on the air. “Today I woke up at six in the morning and I heard that they were announcing something and I wrote to the Cat: Are you at the Cultural Center? Yes? Well, that's where it happened, I told him. And they were ... did you notice the time? Six thirty in the morning, ”he said. El Gato is Gustavo Sylvestre, the journalist from Radio 10.
The opposition wasted no time in mounting on the episode. Everything is measured in electoral terms. The expectation for a victory in the province of Buenos Aires grows at the rate of unforced errors of the Government, which go beyond the economy or health policy. For now, however, Kirchnerism remains at the top.
The heads of Diego Santilli's campaign, who actually respond to Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, produced a paper with 15 polls. There are two polls that locate Tolosa Paz with 38.4% of votes and one with 38.5%, but there is one that gives it at 25% and another 19%. The most favorable to Santilli gives 23.4% and the least auspicious 14.7%; Facundo Manes appears between 8 points and 14.3. The average of those 15 jobs gives 32.2% to Tolosa Paz, 19.9% to Santilli and 9.4% to Manes; 6.4% to José Luis Espert and 5.5% to Florencio Randazzo. The undecided average is up to 14.5%.
The currency is in the air in the main electoral district of the country, key to the general sum with which Cristina and Alberto hope to be able to say that they won at the country level, a scenario that will be forced because the opposition does not go under the same umbrella in the 24 national territories.
While strategies are being drawn up,
Cristina begins to motorize an agreement with the opposition
after the general elections, which is part of the aid operation for Alberto in the midst of the debacle. A tip of that negotiation was given days ago by Sergio Massa in the 18th edition of the Council of the Americas in Buenos Aires. He spoke of ten basic agreements for the next 20 years. He has discussed it with the vice president and with Máximo Kirchner. Cristina's son has had reserved dialogues with some members of Juntos por el Cambio.
They deny it. But the conversations existed.
The president of the Chamber of Deputies maintains a long friendship with Rodríguez Larreta and often met with Vidal when he was governor. The flirtations are underground because the hard wing of macrismo
is on
the warpath
. First, because we will soon have to go to the polls and, second, because Máximo and Massa
want to negotiate with the head of government and not with Mauricio Macri.
Larreta's bond with Massa includes regular dinners. Have they stopped eating together for the campaign?
It would be necessary to bet that no.
The negotiation between Kirchnerists and opponents will open a furrow in the universe of macristas, larretistas, radicals and leaders of Elisa Carrió.
It is a fight that Larreta wants to avoid and kick forward.
He promises, before taking any step, to submit it to an internal discussion.
Cristina is very concerned about several factors.
The economic one, above all.
The renegotiation of the debt reveals it;
the exchange rate, too.
He has spoken it countless times with Axel Kicillof.
But their inquiries do not end in the governor's office.
Martín Redrado usually receives messages. Since they made peace in November of last year,
she has been consulting him on WhatsApp.
The same surprise is taken by other economists who do not belong to the Kirchnerist entourage. Cristina writes, asks and makes observations. He never announces what he is going to do. But it is known that, when November passes, it will drive many changes.
Win or lose the election
, he promises.