Federico Mayol
09/13/2021 17:56
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 9/13/2021 6:23 PM
After noon,
Alberto Fernández
had secluded himself in his office with the ministers
Gabriel Katopodis
and
Juan Zabaleta
, a meeting later joined by
Santiago Cafiero
.
Meanwhile, ministers, officials and leaders such as
Leandro Santoro paraded
.
"Today the most important thing is to support the national government
,
"
one of them acknowledged quietly.
Katopodis and Zabaleta, two of the ministers of Greater Buenos Aires with the best ties to the head of state, had had the night before, very late and after the speech in which Fernández recognized the electoral debacle that was not in the plans of any reference of the Frente de Todos, an urgent summit with
Sergio Massa, Máximo Kirchner, Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro and Andrés "El Cuervo" Larroque
on the third floor of the C.
An encounter crossed by extreme tension, according to official sources, due to the defeat in the primaries in much of the country and, especially, in the province of Buenos Aires, which rekindled the crisis of the ruling party.
Not even
Alfredo Serrano
, the Spanish consultant who in 2019 hit the 2019 victory with almost no margin of error, could predict the provincial catastrophe: he had anticipated a victory of around 5 or 6 points in favor of the ruling party.
The surveys entered, again, in a process of deep revision.
With the President and his closest nucleus of officials locked up on the first floor of the Casa Rosada, focused on analyzing the result of the PASO and in the midst of a gale of transcendent by the future of the government, part of Kirchnerism did the same in the Senate.
President Alberto Fernández assumes defeat seconded by Cristina Kirchner on stage.
Photo Franco Fafasuli / Argra.
According to
official sources
confirmed to
Clarín
,
Cristina Kirchner
received in her office the Minister of the Interior who until Monday afternoon had not yet set foot in her office on the ground floor of the Casa Rosada, and who could not highlight the work in the cargo of data from the provisional count due to the magnitude of the electoral hecatomb.
Sources from La Cámpora specified that
Máximo Kirchner
, the head of the organization, was also from the party.
Governor
Axel Kicillof
, who
stopped
by his office in the Buenos Aires governorate in the morning, had also traveled to the City after noon.
The doubt at this time was whether or not to accelerate with the eventual tinkering with the government team before or after the generals in November.
Everyone already takes for granted that, sooner or later, there will be a change in the official staff.
At the top of Cristinismo and La Cámpora there was a deep malaise this Monday about the performance of this Sunday that, according to sources linked to those sectors, have their explanation in the management of the Government and, in particular, in the economic program applied by
Martín Guzmán
, one of the officials most questioned by Kirchnerism: for them, in recent months there has been no response in accordance with the demands related to prices and wages that Peronism always boasted of satiating.
Axel Kicillof and Daniel Gollán greet in the bunker of the Frente de Todos after the electoral defeat.
Photo José Brusco / Argra.
With the President determined for now to resist the pressures around his Cabinet, it did not fall well at all in that sector of the coalition that in his first post-election activity Fernández
surrounded himself with the Minister of Economy and Matías Kulfas, of Productive Development ,
another one that is in the sights of the Instituto Patria.
The Chief of Staff also sat in the front row.
Earlier, he had not been able to circumvent the rumors that have been at the top of internal claims for a long time, and that have reappeared with force since the night of this Sunday.
"Frontally, no comrade told me that I have to go," said the official, who closely trusted the president.
Alberto Fernández arrives at the Government House.
after the defeat in the elections Photo: Luciano Thieberger.
Fernández prepared successive management events for the next few days to try to counteract the transcendent and re-print some dynamism to the management after the tsunami of the primaries that wiped out any forecast from which a couple of governors barely managed to escape.
It is that the Government fell in six of the eight provinces that renew the Upper House;
it lost ground in the third electoral section of Greater Buenos Aires with respect to the last election, a merit that Larretismo recognizes to Diego Kravetz, a leader who now works for the head of government but who learned from Peronism;
There were defeats in Quilmes and Mercedes, two districts governed by La Cámpora,
and in Tigre, the small payment that Massismo
seeks to recover again through the agreement sealed in recent months with Julio Zamora.
Massa was still at his home in Tigre until this afternoon: he stayed until late in the morning in complex C with leaders of the Renewal Front and in line with governors trying to find an explanation for the defeat.
For a renowned leader of the organization founded by Máximo Kirchner, who lost his district this Sunday,
a call from all sectors of the coalition is urgently needed to order the front
, a strategy that, according to the official, includes an oxygenation of the cabinet.
For now, the head of state
had planned to visit Admiral Brown on Tuesday
and receive the governors on Wednesday for the Hydrocarbons Law.
Máximo Kirchner and Victoria Tolosa Paz on Sunday in the Frente de Todos bunker after the electoral defeat.
Photo Jose Brusco / Argra.
In the bosom of the Frente de Todos, a whiff of
"little taste"
reigned this Monday
due to the work carried out during the campaign.
There are infinite versions around the commitment of the last months of some actors of the ruling party who did not see the debacle coming.
Meanwhile, in parallel,
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
deployed an impressive electoral machinery in the Province, the City and part of the interior of the country;
the hard wing of the PRO capitalized on the mistakes of the Government and the radicalism tried to regain a certain mystique with the good election of Facundo Manes and the performance in other districts.
The contrast on Sunday night was, in that sense, very noticeable: while the head of government and a sector of the PRO and the UCR celebrated in the restaurant El Mirasol in the Buenos Aires recova until early morning, in the bunker of the Frente de Everyone multiplied the postcards of defeat.
In the room reserved for candidates, on the top floor,
Daniel Gollán,
for example, watched alone, sitting to one side, as
Aníbal Fernández
shouted for a change of course from the C5N screen.
