Guido Carelli Lynch
09/13/2021 15:09
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 09/13/2021 3:14 PM
The Frente de Todos staged a unit photo, its main asset until Sunday night. Alberto Fernández,
Cristina and Máximo Kirchner
,
Axel Kicillof
,
Sergio Massa
and the candidates took the
stage at Centro Cultural C, in Chacarita
. The President was the only speaker who put his body to defeat. When the cameras were turned off, the allies of the ruling party, however, separately digested the electoral beating.
The Head of State returned to the Olivos residence with his most intimate circle, observed for months by the hard core of Kirchnerism: the Chief of Cabinet
Santiago Cafiero
, the Secretary General of the Presidency
Julio Vitobello
and the Secretary of Communication
Juan Pablo Biondi
.
Cristina Kirchner
,
who had arrived at the bunker two hours before Fernández - when official optimism still reigned - retired to her home in Recoleta.
In Chacarita, according to the testimony of several of those present, he had been secluded in a glazed room, lowered a blind and did not speak to anyone;
with the exception of the President.
They did remain in Complex C until late at night
Massa, Máximo Kirchner
and Governor Kicillof. Also the ministers
Wado de Pedro
(Interior) and
Gabriel Katopodis
(Public Works), among others. The heterogeneous staff of the Monday table, which outlined the foundations of the Buenos Aires strategy in the governorate, reviewed the numbers of the Province, municipality by municipality and that of the rest of the 17 provinces where the ruling party was defeated. Missing to complete the payroll, in addition to Cafiero,
Jorge Ferraresi
who followed the elections from Avellaneda.
There were no big conclusions.
"It would be irresponsible and outrageous to say that in 12 hours you can understand what happened," explained the closest collaborators of the Buenos Aires governor.
The day after his black night, the President returned to the Casa Rosada, accompanied by
Biondi, Vitobello and the first lady
Fabiola Yañez
to lead the first act of management.
In Kirchnerism, they had lost no time to talk again about the presumed impact of Olivosgate in the elections, which the Government put down almost from the beginning.
The chief of staff had already been in charge of denying immediate changes in the list of ministers and of ratifying the head of the economic portfolio,
Martín Guzmán, in office
. For other members of the Cabinet who walked the Rosada, the explanation of this ratification of the course has nothing to do with the agreement with the IMF and with giving a predictable horizon to the exchange market. "It's Alberto's style and these are his convictions," they explained.
In the event that Fernández led at the Bicentennial Museum to announce the sending of the "
Buy Argentine
"
bill
, the President lowered the decibels of the campaign. “I hope that this path that we started in 2019 does not change. As far as we are concerned, he will not be altered, ”he said without raising his voice. They were listened to by businessmen, the secretary general of the UOM
Antonio Caló
and 7 ministers from the albertista nucleus:
Guzmán, Matías Kulfas,
Cafiero and the head of Health,
Carla Vizzotti
,
Sabina Frederic
and
Roberto Salvarezza
; a good part of them in the sights of Kirchnerism.
In the Casa Rosada they deny
immediate changes
in the Cabinet.
"There will be changes in speed, but not in ministers," said a close collaborator of the President.
In Balcarce 50 they see behind the versions of imminent announcements of changes in the Cabinet, which were replicated after the defeat, the hand of the majority partners of the coalition who, even when they were excited about a victory, imagined changes in the government payroll .
The spokesmen for La
Cámpora and Cristinismo
embraced the
silence
and asked not to delve into the differences.
In the evening, they had been among the first to list the succession of errors in management and in the campaign.
Massa remained at home with a meeting schedule.
President Alberto Fernández, in the first act after Sunday's defeat at PASO.
“
It is not Alberto's defeat, it is everyone's defeat.
If we have to make changes in the Cabinet, Axel also has to do the same, who also came out to celebrate the triumph, ”lamented an official with an office at La Rosada.
In La Plata they described this analysis as "a lack of responsibility."
"With this criterion, we must ask the resignation of the cabinet of Santa Cruz, Chaco, La Pampa and several others," they argued.
The President and the governor could meet again this Tuesday, when the President tours public works and factories in Almirante Brown and Ituzaingó. His first stop in the suburbs will be with two nearby mayors:
Mariano Cascallares
and
Alberto Descalzo
. The first, who was also a candidate for provincial deputy for the third section, was one of the few who escaped the debacle of Peronism. In the governorate, for now, they avoided confirming the governor's participation.
