The opening speeches of presidents usually navigate between the past and the promise, between the whisper and the shout, between the repetition of the forms that the ministries pass and the crossings with the opposition, between the complaint about the inheritance and the support claim.
That expected swing
finds in Alberto Fernández someone capable of
strengthening the contradiction to beyond the limits of memory
.
Since he was nominated as a candidate by Cristina Kirchner, the President decided to walk along a thin ledge that he himself created:
moderate Kirchnerism
.
The problem is that
he falls off that invisible path all the time
.
This time, after defending his own moderation in the face of internal critics who harass him at all times -the officials of La Cámpora, basically- Fernández dedicated himself to reciting all the steps of the Kirchnerist catechism.
The President
attacked the media
, defended the policies implemented by Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, punished the City of Buenos Aires and attacked "the powers that be."
He only
allowed himself to state two differences with the vice president
: he said that
he does not make up the economic figures
and that no one will be able to say that he became rich during his administration.
It was not necessary to clarify that he was referring to Cristina, more precisely to the falsification of the INDEC data and the judicial cases that seek to reveal the secrets of her family fortune.
Of course,
any trace of moderation disappeared
by the time he turned to talk about the Supreme Court.
The President will go down in history because
he led the attempt to remove not one or two, but all the members of the court
that is at the apex of the Judiciary.
Historians will leave aside the lack of seriousness that surrounds this initiative and will read the cold records where it is recorded that the Government presented it to Congress and then defended it in that same room.
There will be no way to detect the contradiction in a President
who works to dismiss all the members of the Court and who at the same time ensures that there is no attack or attack against Justice.
The President embraced the
lawfare
complaint that Cristina promoted so much in recent years.
The media, Fernández said, never publish the good news about the progress of the government and are dedicated to setting up plots with the courts to persecute officials like the vice president.
The bad news for Fernández is that the vice president decided to ignore the speeches
of her running mate
a long time ago .
Cristina does not want the President to criticize the Court.
She wants the judges to go away.
There is a difference between the statement and the action, between the story and the reality, that Cristina has learned to know since she is vice president and that she is not willing to tolerate in her own body.
In the two hours of reading his speech, the President expressly took charge of avoiding any reference to his candidacy.
He did not speak of re-election and he did not mention his farewell.
He dedicated himself to being Alberto Fernández.
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