From love to hate and from hate to love
.
This is the public link between
Aníbal Fernández and Sergio Berni
.
The assumption of the former to replace Sabina Frederic in the Ministry of National Security was supposed to help lubricate the coordination of management between the Province and the Nation in one of the most sensitive areas.
“
We speak the same language
”, pointed out the official of Axel Kicillof in September 2021.
After the unfortunate episode of adulterated cocaine in the suburbs, Fernández described his Buenos Aires counterpart as a "
mercenary
" and the tension between the two districts only escalated;
also, due to the internal politics that reigns in the Frente de Todos and that exceeds Security.
In the first two months of the year, the President stepped on the Province 11 times without the Governor being present.
Close up.
Aníbal Fernández and Sergio Berni at the Ministry of Security.
Just two weeks ago, when the debate over the delayed arrival of gendarmes in the suburbs was already a fact, Berni recalled the electoral defeat of the national minister in 2015 at the hands of María Eugenia Vidal.
“
Aníbal is very angry with the Province.
He is very resentful and cannot be managed with a grudge, ”she said.
Fernández ended up pointing out - only 4 months after the PASO and with no other gubernatorial candidate in sight - that Axel Kicillof "
does not know the Conurbano
".
The attacks that Berni suffered ended up being
a bridge for a truce
.
Fernández called Berni nine times after the beating he suffered in the bus drivers' protest for the
crime of driver Daniel Barrientos
.
The Buenos Aires minister
called him back when he came out of the tomograph
.
The telephone conversation
was repeated on Thursday and Friday
.
Close to Fernández they insisted that the Province could join the meetings of the
Conurbano Single Command
between the Security Portfolio and the mayors.
The Buenos Aires chief of advisers
Carlos Bianco
demanded it loudly through the media.
On Monday, the Secretary of Security
Mercedes La Giocosa
- who knew how to work in Kicillof's technical teams, called Berni on the phone.
"
I go where they invite me,
" was Berni's response.
Fernández's public statements against his partner in the Cabinet
Eduardo "Wado de Pedro" and the Buenos Aires minister Andrés Larroque
on Saturday did not blow up the bridges.
Berni arrived at the National Security Portfolio 2 minutes after 10 in the morning and joined the meeting on the seventh floor with La Gioiosa and Security Secretaries of the Northwest municipalities: Tigre, San Fernando, San Isidro, Vicente López , San Martín, Tres de Febrero, Morón, Ituzaingó, Hurlingham, Merlo, Moreno, San Miguel, José C. Paz and Malvinas Argentinas.
A while later Fernández joined.
Close up.
Aníbal Fernández and Sergio Berni at the meeting of the Single Conurbano Command.
The two ministers went up one floor to the host 's office and
talked alone for 40 minutes
.
They also allowed themselves to be photographed smiling and embracing, as if there had never been a short circuit between them.
In Fernández's team they maintain that the differences are not even between the Buenos Aires government and the Casa Rosada but between the leaders who do not hold positions but maintain their influence.
The darts are aimed at the
Instituto Patria and the Buenos Aires PJ
led by Máximo Kirchner.
Berni later joined the second meeting of the Command that included the secretaries of Security from La Plata, Ensenada, Berazategui, Florencio Varela, President Perón, San Vicente and Cañuelas.
Fabián Cagliardi, from Cañuelas, was the only municipal executive who participated in the meeting.
The minister, who left the ministry after noon, when the meeting had not yet ended, was not alone.
He was accompanied by
Javier Alonso
, Secretary of Training and Professional Development of the Provincial Ministry of Security.
.
On the side of the federal forces, there was the head of the command, Commander General of the Gendarmerie
Aníbal Bronzetti
.
“
The Province urgently needs reinforcement by the federal forces
”, Berni told the journalists who stood guard at the doors of the ministry.
The minister once again emphasized what he says in public and in private when he is consulted:
the problem of crime in the Province cannot be fixed with more troops
.
Behind the scenes, during the meeting with the municipal security secretaries, Berni insisted on the request that all commands be
interconnected through 911
.
In addition, the creation of a
criminal intelligence group
that will develop a heat map to work on the hottest areas of the GBA was resolved.
On the other hand, the idea is that the Conurbano Single Command has
access to the security cameras of the municipalities
, an idea that has already been implemented in Rosario.
Berni publicly rules out the possibility of leaving his position early, but privately
he left the door open to
resign
if he finally stands as a candidate.
Cristina Kirchner targeted him on Twitter for the operation to stop the bus drivers, although she had called him to show solidarity.
The minister defended the protocol
.
Alone.
Aníbal Fernández and Sergio Berni at the Ministry of Security.
The collaborators of the Buenos Aires minister had relativized the deployment of gendarmes in the buses that were ordered after the death of bus driver Daniel Barrientos in La Matanza.
Now, just when the opposition of Together for Change is cracking, friends Berni and Fernández
staged a truce
.
It will be necessary to see if it is definitive.
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