Ignacio Miri
09/16/2021 8:35 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 09/16/2021 8:35 PM
How much is it worth to disavow a President?
What price do you have to pay if you do it?
Do you have the same price for everyone?
Can you do it as many times as you want to?
The answers to these questions serve to quickly catalog how governments work.
In the case of President Alberto Fernández, as seen in these two years, grievances do not count.
A provincial minister tells him anything and nothing happens.
A pro-government deputy
tells him anything
and nothing happens.
Political allies hit him more viciously than the most angry opponent and absolutely nothing happens.
Gray ministers
and officials who hardly know the specialized journalists throw resignations in his face and nothing happens.
The price of disavowing a president, as determined by Alberto Fernández himself when he chose to join the Frente de Todos, is zero.
It has no cost.
It's free.
The President seems to believe that he is obliged to climb the mountain of grievances each week, forget about them, and prepare to endure those that come the following week.
This is how the Frente de Todos works, and that is how the president and, especially, the vice president, Cristina Kirchner, understood it. The political head of the FDT told him over and over in public what to do and what not to do. He constantly reminds him
who the boss is
, and also that the President is in his chair by his own design. To refresh his memory, this week he
put together an express list
of the officials who respond to him and he armed a rebellion with them, in what was the largest internal attack on a president in recent years.
Strangely, the President persistently chooses to ignore the word of his political partner,
as if it were running water
.
He does not do anything that she asks in private, and neither does he respond to the requests she makes of him publicly.
That operation of the
Frente de Todos
, which was born in defiance of all the natural laws of politics, is no longer useful.
It does not serve to win elections
,
nor does it serve to govern
and, from what is seen taking into account the vertigo that has been unleashed since Sunday's defeat,
neither does it serve to keep a government standing
.