La Cámpora will not go to the act of Alberto Fernández in Mendoza either

Rarely has a presidential visit to Mendoza generated so little interest from the political leadership.

Alberto Fernández will feel the contempt of the leaders of La Cámpora in Cuyo, such as Senator Anabel Fernández Sagasti and the mayor of Santa Rosa and president of the Frente de Todos, Flor Destéfanis, who will not be there. 

Nor will it be received by the governor of Together for Change, Rodolfo Suarez (UCR).

The relationship between the governor and Fernández broke down after the president's arbitration award against the interests of Mendoza in the dispute with La Pampa over the Portezuelo del Viento hydraulic work.

"It will be a quick visit, where the President is going to inaugurate two works," said the mayor of Lavalle, the Peronist Roberto Righi, one of the few who will attend the meeting this afternoon in Greater Mendoza.

The president will be accompanied by the Minister of Public Works of the Nation, Gabriel Katopodis, to inaugurate two works financed by the Nation.

They are going to tour the Federal Penitentiary Center of Luján de Cuyo, and then they will go to Lavalle, to inaugurate the El Paramillo Sewage Treatment Plant. 

The main leader of Kirchnerism in Mendoza, Anabel Fernández Sagasti, justified her absence by saying that she has another agenda issue in Congress that does not allow her to accompany the presidential visit.

When the award against Mendoza was announced on December 30, she described it as bad news.

"It is not coincidence, it is causation. It is the result of Suarez's lack of work and management, the will of the President, the well-known bad faith of the La Pampa government and the little work for consensus in Coirco," Fernández Sagasti described. to the presidential decision.

Alberto Fernández with Senator K Anabel Fernández Sagasti.

The mayor of Santa Rosa and president of the Justicialista Party in Mendoza, Flor Destéfanis, will not be there either because she clarified that she is on vacation leave.

And the head of the Juntos por el Cambio bench in the provincial Senate, Lucas Ilardo, warned that he has taken a few days off outside the province and will not be able to attend either.

The only referent of La Cámpora who spoke out for the rudeness of Fernández was the Minister of the Interior, Wado de Pedro: "The President's trip is official and its objective is to inaugurate a work that will improve the quality of life of 340,000 Mendoza: the Paramillo purification plant, which also generated 250 jobs and required an investment of more than 3 billion pesos from the national government for the province of Mendoza”, he said.

And De Pedro criticized the attitude of Governor Suarez: "Not receiving a president to inaugurate a work for the benefit of the inhabitants is an undemocratic and anti-republican attitude. It seems that what you do not want is to show this work because it violates your story of permanent self-victimization. It seems that you are the one in the campaign."

At the beginning of the week, when the president's visit to Mendoza was confirmed, the Mendoza governor said in various interviews with local media that he was surprised by the announcement of the national president's visit "in a complicated context" of the relationship with the province. .

"It seems to me that it was a ruling against Mendoza, against generating growth. I am not in the mood to accompany," Suarez complained, because now the Portezuelo del Viento dam project, in the south of Mendoza, is paralyzed until that a new study of positive Environmental Impact is not achieved and the support of the majority of the provinces that are in the Interjuridiccional Committee of the Colorado River (Coirco).

“It is difficult for me to find the explanation of the President's visit when there is anger in Mendoza.

That bothers me a lot, like all Mendoza, and one way to express anger, what is happening and happening, is not to accompany him.

I'm not going to accompany him on this visit, that's what I feel.

I can't be smiling when they've hit us Mendoza with a blow,” said Suarez.

The governor will send his Minister of Works, Mario Isgró, to the meeting.

And he said that he will continue working with the Nation for whatever Mendoza needs, but this time he understands that the president is coming: "in campaign mode and I'm not going to lend myself for this."