09/19/2021 2:11 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 9/19/2021 2:22 PM
The president of the PRO and one of the leaders of the opposition, Patricia Bullrich, charged hard this Sunday against Alberto Fernández after the appointment of Juan Manzur as Chief of Cabinet and pointed against the intervention in the intern in Tucumán with his vice Osvaldo Jaldo.
"President: offering positions to an elected deputy governor so that the elected chief of staff Juan Manzur can continue to 'control' his province, is a typical practice of a
clientelistic power
. We pay it with public money and violates the constitutional suitability for the positions" Bullrich pointed out from his Twitter account.
In this sense, with the president as addressee, he continued: "
President, refrain from meddling
in the legal order of succession of the province with money from the Argentines. It is a negotiation incompatible with the ethics that a president and a governor should have."
President: refrain from meddling in the legal order of succession of the province with silver from the Argentines.
It is a negotiation incompatible with the ethics that a president and a governor should have.
- Patricia Bullrich (@PatoBullrich) September 19, 2021
His statements come after it emerged that Manzur agreed to enter Fernández's cabinet under the government's promise that they would convince Jaldo to accept a national post.
It turns out that Lieutenant Governor
Osvaldo Jaldo, who must replace Manzur, is today his main enemy
and in Manzurismo they refuse to leave the province in his hands.
But despite the attempts at seduction, with the offer of national positions, Jaldo does not plan to leave his province.
According to sources from Tucumán, he was offered to preside over the board of directors of Banco Nación and the secretariat of the Provinces within the Ministry of the Interior, and he rejected both options.
The fight between the governor and his vice was exposed in March 2021. The latent tension was detonated by a subtlety:
the conformation of the shortlists for the appointment of the Ombudsman
.
Old days.
Governor Juan Manzur with his vice Osvaldo Jaldo.
The truth is that the fight escalated to the point that Jaldo ended up splitting the ruling bloc in the legislature and that decision was replicated in the deliberative councils of the rest of the cities of Tucumán.
The background fight may have to do with the succession of the governorship.
Manzur is in his second term and cannot be reelected.
The possibility of a constitutional reform to go for a third governorship put Jaldo, who believed himself to be the natural successor, on the warpath.
Last Sunday the confrontation reached the polls.
In the PASO, Manzur faced Lieutenant Governor Jaldo in the intern of the Frente de Todos (FdT) with his
Peronist Loyalty
list
, which was the winner with 61.3% of the votes
.
Alberto Fernández embraces the recently appointed Chief of Staff Juan Manzur.
However, this week the lieutenant governor presented his “unwavering” resignation as a candidate for national deputy for the All for Tucumán list, which further aggravated the internal situation.
In principle, Jaldo confirmed that he will continue in the Legislature and, as they let it transpire, they will approve Manzur's license to reach the Rosada.
What is not yet clear is how the succession process will continue in the province.
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