09/19/2021 8:45 PM
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 09/19/2021 8:45 PM
“
They don't know how nice it is to have a vice president
. I am so happy ”. The phrase with which
Cristina Kirchner
gloated back in 2011, after having anointed Amado Boudou as her running mate, -comparing it with the bad drink brought by the previous one, Julio Cobos, and her non-positive vote on the night of the 125 - never appeared in
Alberto Fernández's
repertoire
. His was
invalid from the beginning
. A vice, that is, a second, who is allowed to nominate the president, that is, the first, did not bode well. Especially knowing the protagonists, and all their circumstances.
It was a matter of time before the bomb exploded
. And the result of the STEP was what activated the detonator.
The Economist coined a term for a phenomenon that especially marked in Latin America: the “
proxy presidents
” or delegated presidents. Who are they?
Weak presidents who came to power thanks to the impulse of figures stronger
than them. As examples the magazine cites Dilma Rousseff, Iván Duque, Lenin Moreno, Juan Manuel Santos, Luis Arce. And Alberto Fernández. In the event that the substitute candidate accepts the rules imposed by the leader, or the strong leader, the note of last November raises, the problem becomes even more complicated: "
A delegated president risks being a weak president
," because his promoter He is the one who exercises power without direct responsibility for decisions.
Among the causes that explain this kind of presidency, the magazine mentions the boom in raw materials and economic growth in the early days of this century, with the consequent appearance and consolidation of strong populisms, as well as the impossibility of running for elections in some of these figures due to limitations in the number of mandates, which forces them to use substitutes. In the Argentine case, the genesis of the appointment is known:
the rejection generated by the figure of Cristina
.
Deputy
Fernanda Vallejos
seems to be unaware of it
, in her “leaked” audio, when referring to the President, she says “he
is a squatter because he has no votes
, he has no legitimacy”. For Kirchnerism it was, in any case, a necessary evil: a more drinkable face to get the
votes that his running mate scared away.
Vallejos, hyper close to Cristina, and the same one who said that
Argentina has "the curse of exporting food"
, went much further. Not to break spears but to continue representing in Congress, as he will do, since he has not yet resigned from his seat, "this government that has already been." How do you continue after having described the President as "
Alberto Fernández's sick man", "little guy"
, a guy "entrenched", "
blind and deaf
", who
"is useless at all
"? There is also a question that the deputy reveals in her annihilating desire. And it is their lack of accountability to their voters. Like when he criticizes the current pension increase system, talking about "the shitty formula that made us vote." If that's what you thought, why did you vote for it? Who will you answer for that? Didn't the "happiness of the people", to which he swore when taking office, include retirees?
Of course, for contradictions, it is difficult to overcome Cristina's letter.
Worshiper of the epistolary genre
to make known in public what she should speak in private as part of the Government that she is, -and not an invited observer, as she seems to
show herself to define responsibilities-
, of all the "pearls" there is just one. After reaffirming that "all decisions are made by the President", and maintaining that "I will not continue to tolerate press operations that are made about me and our political space from the presidential environment through its spokesperson," Denying that he was promoting Wado de Pedro to the Cabinet Headquarters, he says: "Alberto Fernández wanted Dr. Eduardo de Pedro to be his Chief of Staff and
I was the one who did not agree"
. They were? A disservice to the presidential authority, with a statement like that.
Although in the midst of so much sloppiness and so much double talk, nothing strange. How to summon the
"new" Cabinet
and as Minister of Security
Aníbal Fernández, the inventor of the "feeling" of insecurity
. The same man who said, without blushing, that
Germany had poorer people than Argentina
. Or propose
Juan Manzur
as Chief of Staff
, accused of
, in the best Indec K style, having
manipulated the infant mortality figures
in Tucumán, his province and with some other issues that turn, between contradictory and hypocritical, the Government's policies in more of a subject. Two years ago, the current
Minister of Women
, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta,
denounced Manzur
for obstructing the legal abortion of an 11-year-old girl who had been raped.
The minister, one of the two, along with Carla Vizzotti, who is now a member of the Cabinet, outlined a complaint about the lack of gender parity there.
But he was reassured by the request of the President to prepare a decree on the matter.
What decree?
If I wanted to incorporate women, it would be enough to name them.
So far from Carnival, it is fine
to keep your chinstraps on
but it is time to
take off your masks
.
