Ignacio Ortelli
09/16/2021 11:07
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 09/16/2021 11:23 AM
"
This is not a coup, it was not intended
." Well into Wednesday night, when the barrage of resignations had been made several hours ago and the main media reported the emptying of the Cabinet, Cristina Kirchner let Alberto Fernández know, through two interlocutors, that the decision to ask them to his ministers and officials who made his resignation "available" did not aim to strike him a blow but to "free" him from pressure to decide the changes he wanted in his team. It was not a reversal of the vice president, who
is convinced that after the electoral defeat, the Government must be reprofiled
, but rather a clarification of the discomfort that caused him to stay in a place that he always attributed to other sectors of power.
Indeed, if she had wanted to capitulate, Cristina could have deactivated the conflict with an afternoon call to the President, who, beyond the disappointment caused by learning from the media about the massive resignations -especially that of the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo " Wado "From Pedro, for whom he feels special affection, he
waited all day for a gesture from the vice president
that would allow him to turn off the scandal and the political crisis self-inflicted by the ruling party.
But Tuesday's meeting between the two had not ended well and the work of those seeking to intercede turned out to be an extremely complex mission.
The only gesture the vice gave was the call to the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán. And not only because of the content (he told him that he was not asking for his resignation, despite the fact that for a year he has been the recipient of his criticism and the hard core K): the Senate's own communication was in charge of spreading the communication. In the next few hours, in addition, there
could be a photo between the two
, although that will depend on how the fight with Fernández evolves.
This "safeguard" for Guzmán, in any case, did nothing more than make visible that
Cristina does insist on the departure of several officials that Fernández does not want to hand over either
: the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, the ministers Matías Kulfas (Productive Development), Sabina Frederic (Security), Claudio Moroni (Work) and the secretaries Juan Pablo Biondi (Communication and Press), Julio Vitobello (Presidency), and Francisco Meritello (Media and Public Communication).
"
That is not and was not the intention
", was the clarification that from the hard Kirchnerism left for the Casa Rosada before the headlines of some media that spoke of "coup".
Albertism sees "squeeze"
More than a "coup",
close to the President they spoke of "tightening"
and explained why the rest of the Cabinet did not follow the path of De Pedro and the other officials, which would have served to disguise the political identity of the movement and could have It has been explained as a gesture similar to that of Axel Kicillof's ministers. "With tightening they do not take us any more. We do not bank more tightening. The changes are going to be made when you think you have to do them," they planted.
Alberto's intransigence is partly explained by the annoyance caused by the forms.
Although there was no agreement on Tuesday, his intimates say that "he
never imagined that half the Cabinet was going to resign
and that he was going to find out from the media."
"If the intention was to help, we could have armed it as a gesture of the entire Cabinet and not all this happened," lamented a man who considers himself "unconditional" of the President.
Those who try to intercede between Alberto and Cristina say that an agreement is still far from being reached, but that the passing of the hours will help it decide.
They emphasize that there is a "difference in styles" that during the most tense day of the Frente de Todos in power made any rapprochement fail.
"
For Alberto it was a tightening and for Cristina one more discussion
. We must calm down and order ourselves," asks a senior official who, together with the head of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Massa, and the head of the Frente de Todos bloc, Máximo Kirchner, works to build bridges between both leaders. "Some live this as a life and death battle and that is not good," he adds.
In any case, the conflict will not be settled only with an agreement between the leaders.
The idea that begins to gain strength between the first and second lines that exchange messages seeking to reconcile is to bring everyone together.
"This is arranged between Alberto and Cristina, but also with
a long table in which everyone, including the governors and the unions, feels part of it again,
" sums up one of those who pivots, due to his career, on both sides.
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