Like last year,
Máximo Kirchner
was not present at the opening of ordinary sessions in the National Congress.
The deputy of the Frente de Todos was the great absentee in the institutional act where President Alberto Fernández spoke, with whom he had had marked differences in recent times.
This Tuesday, the voice of the vice president's son was heard for the first time in the Chamber of Deputies after several months, since he had not spoken since December 17, 2021, after his statements dynamited the possibility of continuing the treatment of the Budget 2022.
The leader of La Cámpora did so after the ruling party achieved a quorum on the last day of extraordinary sessions in Deputies to deal with the pension moratorium project, which comes with half a sanction from the Senate.
The person who was present at the opening of the sessions as a reference for La Cámpora was Andrés Larroque, who spoke before the presidential address.
"Hopefully it will be a speech that contributes," suggested the Buenos Aires Community Development Minister, another of Alberto Fernández's usual critics.
At the beginning of the year, Máximo again added criticism against Alberto F., in full controversy over an open internship between Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro and the President for not having invited him to a meeting with Lula da Silva.
Máximo Kirchner and Alberto Fernández, an always strained relationship.
Photo: Guillermo Rodríguez Adami.
"After the pandemic, Cristina began to mark some things in the economic field and the President took it badly. I, who have always been there, can tell you that Cristina never mistreated Alberto. She treated him between cotton," said the deputy in dialogue with an ultra-kirchnerista portal.
"It's tougher with Wado (from Pedro), with Mayra (Mendoza), with Cuervo (Larroque), with me, it's more spicy there… But he never yelled at Alberto. Now, are you firm in discussions? Of course, yes ," he launched, comparing the way of linking up between Cristina and Alberto, on the one hand, and with leaders of La Cámpora, on the other.
Máximo redoubled the attack against the Casa Rosada, in this sense, declaring that "it was the Government itself that installed these versions."
He also said that "now they all look distracted and it's not like that", adding that "it was very difficult for him to work on that bond, to be there, and I did it among other reasons because I want things to go well".
Deputies and senators withdrew from the premises
In the most fiery part of the opening speech of Alberto Fernández's ordinary sessions before Congress, several opposition senators and deputies chose to withdraw from the venue.
From the radical senator Martín Lousteau to the Peronist Graciela Camaño, more than a dozen legislators left.
Some withdrew due to criticism of the City of Buenos Aires for the co-participation, others due to the particular mention of the drug trafficking situation in Santa Fe and also due to criticism of Justice.
"I got up from the Campus and left because I cannot admit that such a barbaric thing is said. The president is lying: he cannot say that the City of Buenos Aires is not part of the co-participation agreement," said Senator Martín Lousteau, pre-candidate for chief of Buenos Aires government.
Graciela Camaño and Florencio Randazzo took the same attitude as Lousteau;
and the socialists Mónica Fein and Enrique Estevez.
"The President chose to use the pain of the drama of insecurity that we live in Santa Fe for his inmate. With lies and cynicism, he mixed issues and thus did not assume any responsibility. Reprehensible. In Santa Fe we deserve answers, not this inhuman attitude," he criticized. the former mayor of Rosario and current deputy, Mónica Fein.
In the same vein, Camaño complained on social networks: "Shamefully and after a boring self-praise, the president meddled in a clear encroachment on powers in a pending impeachment trial where the Chamber of Deputies is substantiating the accusation. And what about that?" the Constitution?".
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