09/17/2021 11:38 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 09/17/2021 11:38 PM
In her public letter on Thursday, Cristina Kirchner
blanked out
that she had demanded that Alberto Fernández appoint the governor of Tucumán Juan Manzur
as the new chief of staff.
After recounting her meeting with the President last Tuesday at the Quinta de Olivos, Cristina stated in her text: "I told her that it was necessary to relaunch her Government and I proposed names such as that of Governor
Juan Manzur
for the Chief of Cabinet.
I know it will surprise her. My proposal
is public and notorious the differences that I have had with who was my Minister of Health since 2009, when I had to remove the then Minister of Health due to the failure to address the influenza pandemic A (H1N1) ".
And he continued: "Juan remained in his position
until he resigned to contest the candidacy for governor
of the Province of Tucumán in 2015, a position he obtained and revalidated by popular vote not only through his re-election, but also in the election of the last Sunday".
Alberto Fernández and Juan Manzur, in 2019.
The
pressure Cristina finally took effect
because the Thursday meeting with Fernandez in the Quinta de Olivos Manzur had rejected the offer to join the Cabinet.
It
is not yet clear what changed from one day to the next
.
Less clear is the reason for
the clean slate
that Cristina makes with her former Minister of Health.
Furthermore, last July the vice president had questioned him for not having been prosecuted, unlike other K officials, for the
Qunita Plan
.
In September 2018, that is, exactly three years ago, in a report by
Clarín
, the man from Tucumán declared: “That's it, it's over;
Cristina's is a political cycle that is over ”.
It was a
gross political miscalculation
: the following year, Cristina was the vice president of the Nation.
Elected Governor of Tucumán in 2015, Manzur immediately took charge of
severing the link
with the one who had been his
political godfather
, former Governor José Alperovich, who was also his deputy governor.
In 2019 he was reelected and, as Cristina pointed out in her letter, in this year's PASO he won a victory in his province.
In the midst of the defeats of the Frente de Todos throughout the country, in Tucumán
the ruling party fell just three points
in relation to the 2019 gubernatorial election.
A rare ingredient in Manzur's appointment is that he is
at total war
with his lieutenant governor
Osvaldo Jaldo
, who challenged him - and lost - in last Sunday's primaries.
It will be necessary to see how the succession is organized.
their links
Since his time as Minister of Health, Manzur
has had a close relationship
with the pharmaceutical businessman Hugo Sigman.
The businessman said that he had met him "in a tremendously random way" in the influenza A epidemic.
Sanitarista and historical Peronist doctor, he has a good relationship with the governors of the PJ, but he also
has a close relationship with the Peronist mayors
of the Buenos Aires suburbs.
That relationship comes from when he was Secretary of Health of La Matanza.
Cristina Kirchner with her then Minister of Health Juan Manzur, in 2013.
Pragmatic - and convinced that Cristina's time had passed - between 2015 and 2019 he played close to the management of Mauricio Macri.
Hence the cross
that CFK had made for him.
In 2016, for example, he said: "With Macri we agree that the Bicentennial
is the starting point for a more inclusive Argentina
.
"
In 2015, the last year of Cristina's presidency, he
had been the minister who increased his wealth the most
, after buying an olive oil company.
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