09/16/2021 4:19 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 09/16/2021 4:27 AM
Martín Guzmán does not seem to be the type of official
to express the tension
.
On a day when
his own
Cabinet
colleagues
in the Alberto Fernández government set up a scene of massive resignations driven by Cristina Kirchner
to provoke hers
, the Minister of Economy did not move an item on his scheduled agenda.
"It doesn't go away. It stays,"
someone who crossed it this long Wednesday
told
Clarín
.
Guzmán hardly modified his logistics - he spent more time at La Rosada - but there were moments outside the calendar: he answered
not one but three
unusual
calls
, from the vice president's phone, as confirmed by someone well aware of his hectic day.
"He confirmed to his closest environment that he is staying, he is not leaving," said an interlocutor of the minister, who would have repeated that phrase like a mantra since noon, when the resignation letters available to his peers surrounded him.
It is known that the objective of the hard Kirchner movement, in addition to the Chief of Staff Santiago Cafiero, was the departure of Guzmán, even if it is denied to him and with insistent calls.
It is that aside from important details of his agenda - which included defining nothing less than the Budget law on a particular day - Guzmán spoke about it with Cristina Kirchner.
And they say that
the vice president insistently clarified
that her final idea was not for him to leave his post.
From there to believe it, of course,
there is an abyss
.
Martín Guzmán cleans his hands on his tour of Paris.
The Minister of Economy resists without stress.
Photo Noel Smart
There were no more details of the conversations between the jacked minister and the jacked vice, except for some correction that one made to another about a publication of a medium with some
misinterpreted indiscretion
.
It was only known that there were three dialogues not widely spaced in the day and
one shorter than the other
.
Guzmán began and ended this Wednesday
"as if it were a normal day," they
say in his environment, increasingly reluctant to reply.
"He's calm,"
added someone who spoke to him late at night.
He was active.
Is that if Cafiero was, after 22, the last official to leave the Casa Rosada this Wednesday, Guzmán was not left behind: until midnight he was with the final details of what will be known this Thursday about his Budget project, or formally, the general law of Expenses and Calculation of Resources of the National Public Administration.
For that measure, they say that Guzmán was also in continuous contact with Sergio Massa, the president of the Chamber of Deputies and an ally of the increasingly tripartite front that governs.
And with Máximo Kirchner -not without discussion-, creator of
La Cámpora who resigns at the request
.
And Basualdo?
Picaresque political noticed a subtle thread between renunciants absence of Cristina Fernandez Alberto power: that of
Federico Basualdo
, Undersecretary of Electric Power and Fernandez Guzman
wanted to
take
but the vice president and camporismo argued.
Nothing was said about
that farce that was the
prelude to the current crisis
that divides waters between officials.
Of
the resignation that did not transcend
, less
Guzman, it is evident, remained on the side of the President.
So close that, since the electoral debacle of the PASO this Sunday,
Alberto F. shares the agenda with him
.
To the point that this Wednesday, the resignations that took over the political scene were found at the end by the presentation of the Hydrocarbons Law, a project that Guzman managed and also sent this Wednesday at the beginning of the agenda,
before the tremors
.
The draft Law for the Promotion of Hydrocarbon Investments that we present will improve the production capacity of oil and gas that the country needs and will allow the export of surpluses.
It is time to take advantage of the energy potential that we have and thus, be more sovereign.
pic.twitter.com/qpUkfJs905
- Alberto Fernández (@alferdez) September 15, 2021
Then, the meetings with the albertista ministers in the Government House and the final point to the Budget that tensed it with the strategic cadres of Máximo Kirchner.
Guzmán is in favor of reaching a
fiscal balance
as quickly as possible.
On the other hand, in La Cámpora they prefer to advance more gradually.
The minister advanced in a strong reduction of the fiscal imbalance in the first seven months of the year (0.7%), as a proposal.
The beloved student and disciple of Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz remains in office.
See you later.
DS
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