The Government prepares the day after the STEP: the management in 'hawk mode', the doubts by the Cabinet and the bet on the reactivation

Ignacio Ortelli

09/07/2021 2:43 PM

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Updated 09/07/2021 2:43 PM

Unlike what happened in the run-up to the 2019 presidential STEP, it is difficult today in the Frente de Todos to find leaders who admit that they may lose the election in the province of Buenos Aires. By strategy, overreaction of confidence or in some cases by conviction by the latest polls that arrived last week, the Government draw an optimistic scenario for next Monday, but anyway they warn that

the roadmap will not change according to the result

.

The idea is to accelerate the agenda that was pending due to the pandemic and the campaign; and take advantage of the clean and jerk that the lifting of most restraint measures can generate. "

The day after nothing changes, in any case

. We are going to move forward with more management and putting all our efforts to get Argentina out of the well in which the two pandemics left it," they ironically close to the President, in an electoral key and with a critique for elevation of Together for Change.

In line with the speech that Alberto Fernández, who in the final

stretch before the primaries managed to run the Olivosgate axis

and makes an effort to establish that concrete signs of an economic reactivation are already emerging after the collapse of 2020, the Casa Rosada anticipates that It will focus on giving impetus to initiatives focused on the productive sectors, job creation and the middle class, a universe that suffered the blow during the pandemic and in which the ruling party concedes that its electoral actions fell. "We are not going to leave that agenda, which is that of the people," they anticipate.

That trail includes the option to avoid controversial topics

. At least between the primaries and the general elections, they know in the FDT that there is no margin to propose projects that serve the opposition as a platform to ignite debates. In this sense, the two reforms in the field of Justice (the new Procuratorate law and the changes in the federal jurisdiction) already approved by the Senate, will

have to wait, at least, until December

, when the legislative change takes place. 

Although the government admits that "they are very important laws" for the President and that Cristina Kirchner claims, today they are not on the list of priorities for Congress to approve.

"They have been standing for a year.

Why would we put them in for an election?

"

Asks a strong

parliamentary voice, to clear up doubts. 

Among the projects to be dealt with, in addition to the 2022 Budget, are the Front Food Labeling law, the Sheep Promotion law, the Viñateros law, the Waterway Bicameral and the Automotive Promotion law.

At Casa Rosada they validate: "We are going to be in 'hawk mode'

, but speeding up management and economic recovery."

Not even a resounding victory would alter these plans

. The precedent of 2019, when between the PASO and the general Alberto F. lost some points for neglecting the tone of moderation and entering a game of confrontation with the harsher version of Together for Change, serves as a lesson. "It can serve to regain some self-esteem after so many coups, but we cannot afford to lose a single vote," is the argument in the face of doubts as to whether an emboldened ruling party will be seen as of September 13. 

Thus, when the opposition warns that a triumph of the ruling party leaves the country closer to Venezuela and will lead to radicalization, in Balcarce 50 they appeal to the archive to dismantle the accusations. "Since 2013 they have been saying that we are going to Venezuela.

They do not realize that people no longer buy those Chicanas,

" says a high-ranking official with an office in Casa Rosada. As proof, he reviews the latest movements made by two referents, such as Eduardo "Wado" from Pedro and Máximo Kirchner, when they met with the CGT, with the aim of starting to build bridges. 

On the other hand, in terms of management, Fernández outlines the final exam for several of his ministers. The President so far resists pressure to make changes, especially in the economic area, with the expectation that with the end of the pandemic the Cabinet will be able to take a leap. "

There are ministries that could not even start

, that were very conditioned because the priority was the (combat of) coronavirus, but that now they have to demonstrate," they describe close to the president. 

But still there are those who assure that there are at least two officials with the "chopped ticket" by the end of the year.

Even, as

Pablo de León told in Clarín,

in the corridors of Casa Rosada a phrase is attributed to Fernández: "I am going to make changes in the Cabinet in December."

There, the question arises in the face of an eventual defeat in the STEP: Does it serve the President to anticipate these changes in the team to try to recover votes?

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