Juan Manzur made the leap to the Nation: what is going to happen now in Tucumán with the succession of power?

09/18/2021 4:16 AM

• Clarín.com

• Politics

Updated 09/18/2021 2:32 PM

Juan Manzur, 52, was at the center of the political scene when Vice President Cristina Kirchner, with whom he had differences since 2017, nominated him for the head of the Cabinet to replace Santiago Cafiero, in the assembly of the new government of Alberto Fernández , after the scandalous defeat suffered in the PASO last Sunday.

But the passage of Manzur to the Nation opened several questions about the succession process in Tucumán, where the governor maintains a strong confrontation with his vice,

Osvaldo Jaldo

, with whom he already competed in the PASO in which the designated Chief of Cabinet prevailed. by a wide margin.

Undoubtedly, that internal struggle was the one that led Manzur to reject, in the first instance, the offer to assume as chief of ministers when Alberto F. made the proposal to him at a meeting at the Quinta de Olivos. It is not clear if the pressure from the vice president led him to modify his decision or if the Tucuman doctor really has a more ambitious bet with a view to 2023, since he will

not be able to seek a new mandate

in the province.

His name came from the letter that the vice president released on Thursday after recounting her last meeting with the President at Quinta de Olivos. "I told him that it was necessary to relaunch his Government and I proposed names such as that of Governor Juan Manzur for the Chief of Cabinet. I know that my proposal will surprise, it is public and notorious the already overcome differences that I have had with who was my Minister of Health since 2009, when I had to remove who was then my Minister of Health for the failure to address the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, "said Cristina Kirchner.

And in this context, he recalled that Manzur "remained in office until he resigned to contest the candidacy for governor of the Province of Tucumán in 2015, a position that he obtained and revalidated by popular vote not only through his re-election, but also in last Sunday's election. "

Faced with the difficult situation of the Peronist national gov, @JuanManzurOK takes over as head of the national cabinet.

After the clear victory in the PASO, and in the middle of an election, it is a folly to leave the provincial government to those who were defeated and are against the Government.

- Pablo Yedlin Press (@PrensaYedlin) September 18, 2021

It was from the confirmation of his appointment that different conjectures began to be opened regarding the succession process of the Tucumán governorship, given the fierce internment that he maintains with his deputy governor.

Precisely, article 91 of the provincial constitution establishes that "in case of death, resignation, illness, absence or other impediment of the Governor,

his functions will be performed by the Vice Governor

until the cessation of the impediment, when it is temporary, or until the period is completed. constitutional law by which they were elected, when the impediment was permanent ". 

In this line, the assumption of Jaldo would be imminent, at least from what the constitution dictates.

But in Tucumán

no one takes it for granted

that the governor's main rival is going to succeed him.

Even Jaldo himself avoided referring to that point and through his social networks congratulated Manzur on the appointment and made himself available to the president and vice president.

"We congratulate and

value the attitude of the governor

@JuanManzurOK in these difficult times to assume as Chief of Staff in the government of our President @alferdez and our vice president @CFKArgentina, making ourselves available in whatever is necessary," wrote the deputy governor in his account On twitter.

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We congratulate and value the attitude of the governor @JuanManzurOK in these difficult moments to assume as Chief of Cabinet in the government of our President @alferdez and our vice-president @CFKArgentina, making ourselves available in whatever is necessary.

- Osvaldo Jaldo (@OsvaldoJaldo) September 18, 2021

But the message was hardly able to temper the differences between the two leaders, which became more acute when Jaldo decided to advance the bid for Manzur's succession by two years.

The lieutenant governor sought from the beginning to shore up his political construction with a view to the 2023 elections and precisely with that objective, at the beginning of March, he caused

the rupture of the Peronist bloc

in the provincial Legislature.

Jaldo's decision was not well received at the Casa Rosada.

"This is not the time to put personal interests first, but to attend to people's problems", was the message from Eduardo "Wado" from Pedro, in support of Manzur.

The differences were accentuated and the lieutenant governor decided to go with his own list in the intern of the ruling party in a kind of preliminary test.

Manzur got the support of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner for these legislative elections in which the governor proposed a list that has Pablo Yedlin as head for senators and Health Minister Rossana Chahla for deputies.

On Sunday, the governor's payroll was widely imposed by garnering 289,662 votes (

60.37%

in the internal vote) against 190,124 (

39.62%

) for Jaldo, who thus obtained second place on the list for Deputies.

However, this week the lieutenant governor presented his

“indeclinable”

resignation

as a candidate for national deputy on the list “All for Tucumán”, which further aggravated the internal situation.

In principle, Jaldo confirmed that he will continue in the Legislature and according to what they have revealed, they

will approve Manzur's license

.

What is not yet clear is how the succession process will continue in the province.

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