Federico Mayol
09/16/2021 21:10
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 09/16/2021 9:10 PM
"When I made the decision to propose Alberto Fernández as a candidate for President of all Argentines and Argentine women, I did so with the conviction that it was the best for my country. I
only ask the President to honor that decision,
" Cristina Kirchner told In the last hour of the afternoon of this Thursday in the harshest letter that he published so far, and left Alberto Fernández cornered in the most serious institutional crisis of the Frente de Todos.
If the surprise resignations of
Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro
and a dozen K officials had caused a political tsunami within the government coalition, the letter that the former President published on her networks five minutes before seven in the afternoon It ended up completely convulsing the Government.
The vice president warned for the first time, without euphemisms, what she has asked in private in an insistent way in recent months: that
the president must implement an urgent change in his cabinet after the "political catastrophe"
of the weekend.
As he stressed, he had warned: "
A wrong fiscal adjustment policy was being carried out
that was having a negative impact on economic activity and, therefore, on society as a whole and that, undoubtedly, this was going to have electoral consequences" .
"I didn't say it once ... I'm tired of saying it," he
remarked to distance himself from defeat.
And he added: "I was, I am and will be a Peronist, that's why I thought we couldn't win, and I said it not only to the President."
"The day after such a political catastrophe, you listened to some officials and it seemed that nothing had happened in this country, pretending to be normal and, above all, screwing yourself to the armchairs.
Do you really think that it is not necessary, after such a defeat? , publicly present the resignations
and that the attitude of the civil servants and civil servants to facilitate to the President the reorganization of his government is known? ", asked the ex-president.
"As I am not a liar and much less a hypocrite, I must mention that during 2021 I had 19 work meetings in Olivos with the President of the Nation. See you there and not at the Casa Rosada at my proposal and with the intention of avoiding any kind of speculation and media operation of institutional wear, "he remarked in
the 20-paragraph text whose publication was unknown to Fernández or anyone in his cabinet
, and which surprised Fernández and his closest collaborators at the summit in Olivos, in which they analyzed the steps to follow.
According to the former President, in "the first 18 meetings" she presented the head of state with a "delicate social situation" translated "into wage arrears, lack of control over prices and lack of work."
And he referred to the "impact of the two pandemics: the macrista first and the health one" later.
"I also
always stressed the lack of effectiveness in different areas of government,
" struck down the vice president, who in recent months insisted by all means on the need to implement a change in the presidential cast.
The last 48 hours were, in that sense, a true gale in the Frente de Todos.
Never, since the Frente de Todos took over the government, has there been so much anxiety in official offices.
On Tuesday night, Fernández and Cristina Kirchner had met alone in Olivos after a series of private meetings between the main partners of the coalition that had their first chapter on the Sunday of the defeat, in the reserved complex of complex C in the neighborhood of Chacarita.
"
48 hours
had elapsed
without him communicating with me and it seemed prudent to call him and tell him that I had to speak with him
. I deliberately let 48 hours pass to see if he called. There I told him that it was necessary to relaunch his government and I proposed names such as the Governor Juan Manzur for the Chief of Cabinet ", recalled the vice, who did not evade his well-known enmity with the Tucuman.
It was no accident.
This Thursday, Fernández received the governor in Olivos after doing the same with
Sergio Uñac
, from San Juan, two names that sounded throughout the day as possible replacements for Santiago Cafiero, involved in all kinds of rumors.
The former president recalled the resignation of Néstor Kirchner from the PJ after the defeat of 2009 and her request for "resignation" from her chief of staff.
"And beware! ... we had lost in the province of Buenos Aires but we had won at the national level," he chicaneó.
According to official sources, the President and his predecessor spoke on Tuesday about the changes that Cristina Kirchner demands in the direction of the management, in the economic program and in the professionalism of Fernández's collaborators.
There had been, they say, a timid advance.
What's more, front-line sources trust that on early Wednesday, before the announcement with governors linked to the hydrocarbon investment project, Fernández and Cafiero spoke it alone.
Spokespersons for the Chief of Staff emphasize that the coordinating minister offered his resignation after Sunday on two occasions.
But that the stampede that Kirchnerism executed with the resignations of the officials changed the plans.
"The government's management will continue to develop in the way that I deem appropriate,"
Fernández challenged in fact this Thursday morning in a series of tweets prepared by his advisers on Wednesday night.
For example, the photo of Fernández from mid-morning on Wednesday with
Martín Guzmán
and
Matías Kulfas
, two ministers who long ago lost the sympathy of Christianity and La Cámpora, had finished detonating the fragile internal coexistence.
The President learned in José C. Paz, after noon, that the Minister of the Interior and ten officials who answer to the vice president were resigning.
That of the Minister of the Interior - "Wadito", according to him - especially disturbed him.
This Thursday, before the letter, presidential collaborators let it be known that the head of state had endorsed the departure of De Pedro.
After a while,
Vilma Ibarra
came out to deny it as the President's official spokesperson.
The transcendent linked to "Wado", a high-ranking member of La Cámpora who enjoys the utmost confidence of the former President, inflamed Kirchnerism.
And Cristina Kirchner then took the opportunity to charge, without naming him, against
Juan Pablo Biondi
, the presidential spokesman.
He has had it in his sights for a long time.
"I will not continue to tolerate the press operations that from the presidential environment, through its spokesperson, are made about me and our political space:
Alberto Fernández wanted Dr. Eduardo De Pedro to be his Chief of Staff and I was the who did not agree
. Mal could now promote him to that position, "slipped the vice president.
And continued.
"Regarding the category of officials who do not work ... presidential spokesman would
escape that classification is a rare case..? A presidential spokesman told where no one knows her voice Or have any other function than to
know
Does making operations in off for example?
True mystery ", ironized.
Recharged, she also said that she contacted Guzmán "when it was falsely reported that in the meeting" she had with the President, she asked for "her resignation."
"The operations are permanent and, finally, they only end up wearing down the government
. It is incredible that they do not notice it. It is a shame so much self-inflicted damage," he crushed again.
He sent, along these lines, an ultimatum regarding the budget presented this Thursday in Congress: "I sincerely trust that with the same strength and conviction that he faced the pandemic,
the President is not only going to relaunch his government, but is leaving to sit down with his Minister of Economy to look at the budget numbers
. "
Until the night of this Thursday, in Olivos and within the coalition there was a thick climate.
"The government of the Frente de Todos is over," they
ventured at Casa Rosada on Wednesday.
Cristina Kirchner's letter confirms the omen.