09/18/2021 7:14 PM
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 09/18/2021 19:15
If something is clear about the week, it is that Alberto Fernández will be able to get everything for good, as he himself says.
But more can be done the hard way, as Cristina has shown again
.
On Monday she announced that she would not dismiss any minister, as she claimed.
And just four days later, between renounced by someone else's will and castling to disguise,
the vice imposed a half dozen changes on him.
The Fernández of always.
What happened in between? Everything except what the President expected. It's like a Netflix series in four episodes. It starts with the return of Fabiola to La Rosada, which irritates Christianity and more and more the handsome Fernández that he would not make changes. On Tuesday he has lunch with catharsis included with mayors, Máximo and Pedro and that night Cristina falls in Olivos
with reproaches, complaints about the economy and a list of heads that have to roll
. There are no surprises in those he leads: the chief of staff Cafiero and the spokesman Biondi, two of the President's most trusted. Cristina, who knows about these things, has to show her troops that she
will be more at the helm on the bridge.
Fernández stands on his hands. You will know immediately that it
is for a while and with only one hand or rather half hand
. At his side they will excuse him: they say that he is fed up with Cristina but that he does not want to set all fire before the election. That Wednesday there is Kirchnerist fire against him and Fernández opposes a couple of extravagances. One is to go to José C. Paz to tour the municipality and eat a barbecue with Mayor Ishii. On the return trip they tell him that De Pedro, Minister of the Interior, although much more of Cristina's minister than hers,
resigned without notifying him
. He only cared about informing the media.
Another chapter had begun: furious at Fernández's lack of answers,
Cristina was firing the cataract of abandonments from the damaged ship in the Passages
below the waterline. It is the key day: Fernández must decide whether to accept the resignations.
Many are excited that he is going to do it, but no
. He chooses to speak with another Fernández, Aníbal, perhaps to stop a change that had been covered up: Berni for Frederic. Between curiosities or not so curiosities, Mena, Zannini and Ustarroz, De Pedro's brother who runs the Magistracy, do not resign.
The jack leg is visible: they are the ones who lead the offensive against the judges.
It is Thursday and the President collects endorsements from disillusioned unionists and businessmen. Also from governors who sympathize but decline their invitation to join the government, such as San Juan Uñac and Manzur, from Tucumán. Another peculiarity K: in the next chapter, Cristina invents a new tightening mechanism and in a letter the head of the Peronist progressivism proposes Manzur as chief of staff, a reference to the conservative Maronite church and whom she calls a lobbyist for the medicinal laboratories.
Politically Manzur belongs to everyone and belongs to none.
Fernández has wanted to bring it and Cristina has always vetoed it. Now it changed. The governor agrees to come but asks that Vice Jaldo not be in his place, with whom they have a fierce intern. Jaldo is offered a position in the Interior or at the Nación bank. Until now he did not accept them. Another unforeseen front for Manzur is the
resistance in the cabinet of the women's group
that questions their positions against abortion.
In the midst of this nac & pop salad, Vallejos, a hyper Cristinista deputy, points to her boss with more oddities: the "leak" in a chain of telephone conversations with a ghost who does not answer but endorses his insults to the President (the light ones: squatter, squatter, sick). He also asks Guzmán, the minister who negotiates with the Fund, to leave. It serves Cristina as a prologue to her ultimatum letter and it serves to call Guzmán and tell him that it is not the thing with him and that he does not have it written down even though it is
evident that he has it written down
. If it saves the clothes it is because it is worse for them to throw it out than to leave it. The minister just gave them a gift: he opened a door to spend more money until the elections with the SDRs sent by the Fund for something else. It remains to be seen if he can do it.
It will also be seen if it continues after November. Guzmán has an unshakable smile on the face of a coin, but in the letter that Cristina wrote to tell the Kirchnerist militancy what the Kirchnerist militancy wants to hear, there is
great hypocrisy
: the axis of the adjustment that they reproach him is the pension cut. As of March of this year, retirements lost 20 points compared to the same month of 2020. The law was approved in Cristina's Senate and defended by the Christian deputies who now criticize it, such as Vallejos.
So that there is no doubt about how Kirchnerism thinks things are and what democracy is, Vallejos says that Cristina is
the voice of the people
. It should be understood that the polls that defeated her a week ago are not. And the vice president says she warned Fernández about the defeat she saw coming because she reads reality and not polls. Divination with the Monday newspaper.
Last chapter: he
recoils at full speed from Fernández
. He put the reverse gear with Pedro: he said he would fire him and after a while he ordered to deny it. Cristina won. Of all the ministers that the vice sent to resign, only one was left out. Instead, four came in for as many from the President, who demoted his chief of ministers and lost his spokesman, who
resigned before he handed him over
. The worst: the mistreatment to which he subjected those who bankrupted him. He told Solá that he did not know he was traveling when they had planned to do it together.
He teased her
. And Trotta did not answer the phone after Cafiero asked him to resign because of wasap. Sure there will be a second season, but he is not sure if the same protagonists will continue.