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Candidate ministers: Alberto Fernández threatens to break a rule and opens another internal one in the Government

2023-01-23T00:55:44.346Z


In 2021, those who applied were required to leave office. But the leakage of names that he suffered in the Cabinet raises doubts.


In Casa Rosada they assure that

Alberto Fernández did not change his position

and that

the officials who decide to be candidates must depart from their positions

, an "ethical rule" that he imposed in 2021 and that cost several of his ministers who ran for the elections. Legislative.

But the issue, in the last year of his administration, opens up a dilemma for the President, who must balance his conviction and the

flight of important Cabinet officials

and the rebuff that the bulk of the Frente de Todos suffered in recent months. .

The Head of State ratified the validity of his order at the end of last year, in activities in which he sought to show that he retains centrality and authority.

"

They must resign or ask for permission

", was the message that he transmitted each time he was consulted about it.

They maintain close to them that the imposition has to do with

"not affecting the rhythm of the management"

, an aspect on which the ruling party will work as the axis of the campaign if inflation, as predicted by the Minister of Economy,

Sergio Massa

, begins to rise.

give.

It is curious but, despite the 94.8 percent that left 2022,

in the Government it is analyzed as a discursive line for the electoral contest

, a debate between staying the course or going back.

Something that, without success, Mauricio Macri also tried.

However,

the rule conditions the officials who aspire to be candidates

.

Both Massa, who publicly rejects any speculation, and the Minister of the Interior,

Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro

, mentioned as the possible "pure" Kirchner representative in a PASO, appear in the dance of names as possible affected by the measure.

Neither has taken a concrete step in the presidential race, but if they did, the impact on the Cabinet would be inevitable. 

A more concrete dilemma arises around the chief of staff,

Juan Manzur

.

The man from Tucuman has already tried to leave several times since he arrived.

In October

he announced his desire to return to Tucumán

but the President, despite having limited his functions since he joined the Government, asked him to stay.

As Clarín

recounted

, in the last talk they had in January, the president upped the ante and

released him to campaign without resigning his position

, something that made noise among other officials who also have aspirations.

The Manzur case


The case of Manzur is particular.

Fernández not only needs him because leaders of great specific weight who find the motivation to join

an administration that is facing its last months

do not crowd his office , but because of pure electoral strategy: he knows that the man from Tucumán wants to return for the campaign in which he He will go as vice in the formula that Osvaldo Jaldo will head for the governorship, but at the same time he has the expectation of competing for the Presidency referring to the PJ governors, to offer a non-K alternative. 

Keeping him close, Fernández blocks Manzur's eventual growth and limits his national movements.

An example: the posters that appeared days ago in the City and Greater Buenos Aires,

with the legend "Juan XXIII"

, alluded to his eventual candidacy, but the man from Tucumán could not take charge and in the confusion they were even linked to the possibility that Juan Grabois competed, propped up by the piquetero movements. 

Posters with the legend "Juan XXIII" appeared over the weekend in Mar del Plata.

With this scheme, the Government

took it for granted that Manzur was going to remain in office even during part of the provincial campaign

.

In Tucumán they vote -without STEP- on May 14 and the day-to-day management is in charge of the Deputy Chief of Staff,

Juan Manuel Olmos

, a fundamental piece for Fernández.

"

There is time until the end of March

," speculated a source on the first floor of the Casa Rosada.

However, the problem that the "exception" with Manzur would generate implies a

conflict at the door with Massa and De Pedro

.

The emphasis with which it is stated that Fernández maintains the rule that civil servants who are candidates must leave their posts

is not listened to when asked what would happen if Massa and De Pedro formalize an electoral aspiration

.

Alberto Fernández and Sergio Massa, a relationship in which both seek balance.

(Photo Emmanuel Fernandez)

De Pedro's situation is even more complex.

The leader of La Cámpora always avoided talking about candidacies but at every opportunity he had, he stated that his place in the Frente de Todos and in the face of the elections

is subject to the will of Cristina Kirchner

.

Will Fernández be willing to openly confront the vice president for demanding that the minister comply with an unwritten rule?

Although they point out that second and third lines (secretaries and undersecretaries) that make up the lists of legislators would not be affected, in the Government they admit that

there is no margin either to exempt Manzur

and maintain the demand with other ministers. 

For now, this Thursday Manzur took a step that did not go unnoticed in Casa Rosada and that could precipitate definitions: he landed in the Conurbano with an electoral tone and showed up with a PJ boss from Buenos Aires, the provincial deputy -and mayor of Almirante Brown in license use- Mariano Cascallares.

The Tucuman has pending several invitations from governors and mayors to multiply his tours and raise his profile. 

Juan Manzur, in Almirante Brown, this Thursday.

Together with the Minister of Public Works Gabriel Katopodis, the deputy Mariano Cascallares and the interim mayor, Juan Fabiani.

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Source: clarin

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