Some could define it as “
resilience
”, or a willpower to face all
adversities
, from the strongest physical suffering to the
worst political affronts
.
In that area you will be able to accumulate detractors and those who do not forgive you.
For example,
his “plasticity”
that allows him
to jump
from a presidential pre-candidacy for Peronism (until hours before the proclamation of the Massa-Rossi formula) to a position in Javier Milei's cabinet.
An authentic Scioli.
From Carlos Menem
's deputy
to an official in the governments of
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Eduardo Duhalde, Néstor Kirchner, Cristina Kirchner, Alberto Fernández
and now
Milei.
He built his career
under the aura of Menem
, who encouraged his entry into politics, becoming a national deputy.
But he did not hesitate to confront the “Turk” when several Peronist formulas competed in the tumultuous 2003 elections, as Kirchner's running mate.
The other “quality” that is harshly questioned is
the submission
that has led him to submit to the mistreatment of the Kirchner couple.
Like when - on one of the many occasions - in the tragic flood of La Plata in April 2013, which caused 89 deaths, when he was governor and during the visit of an enraged Cristina Kirchner, an official opened the wrong door and saw how the then President shouted insults at Scioli who only managed to lower his head looking at the floor.
Other times.
Scioli with Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, as well as Tinelli.
Son of a household appliance businessman, who also had interests in Television (Channel 9), Daniel Osvaldo Scioli
first reached the media
through his campaign in motorboating competitions, which started with some little-known international formulas until leading to the Superboat, in the United States.
But there he also suffered the accident in the Delta with the loss of an arm, which would mark him for the rest of his life.
And despite this, a few months later he insisted on continuing competing.
His leap into politics occurred simultaneously with the call that Menem made to add “extra” popular names, whose emblematic cases were those of Carlos Reutemann and Palito Ortega, later governors of Santa Fe and Tucumán, respectively.
In the traumatic December 2001, and in those nights when five presidents succeeded one another, Scioli produced another relevant event: he accompanied Adolfo Rodríguez Saa, almost until the end of his short-lived administration, while the rest of the Peronist leadership (and the governors) They left him in isolation.
And in his resignation.
And when Eduardo Duhalde took office, a few days later, Scioli remained: Secretary of Tourism, one of his favorite areas and which, paradoxically, is now back in his hands.
His ambition at that time was the head of the Buenos Aires Government.
He had established himself in local Peronism for which, for a long time, the Capital has been impregnable territory.
But when he seemed set to fight for that seat, the incipient Kirchnerism gave him the candidacy for Néstor's vice president, seeking a mantle of "popularity" that the almost unknown Santa Cruz governor longed for.
From Kirchnerism itself, which
never ended up accepting him due to his image linked to the jet set
, the media and show business, admitted that Scioli's presence guaranteed them a percentage that unbalanced a very fought election in the first round (there was no longer a ballot, Menem gave up).
With Duhalde.
Scioli was also a Lomese official.
But his adventure as vice president was short-lived: as soon as he hinted at some “pro-market” attitudes or phrases, Kirchner stripped him of all power, fired his officials, and relegated him to a formal position as head of the Senate.
Despite everything, Scioli resisted and his new opportunity would come later, when Kirchnerism - now behind Cristina's candidacy - anointed him as its candidate for governor, where he served two terms.
He is remembered for a flat management, limited to the administration, although he benefited because the sources of corruption and inflation were concentrated in the Kirchner government.
And
he used the strategy of victimization
to politically capitalize on the mistreatment of Néstor and Cristina.
Likewise, he went through hard times when he did not know how to successfully manage the growing insecurity, the tragic accident on a route that was revealed weeks late, the floods in La Plata where the real figures were never released, or the structural poverty in the province.
His collaborators always said, “we are passing through the Province, we want to go to the Nation.”
He was two points away from being president in 2015, but the erosion of Kirchnerism added to the belief that he would never become independent from Cristina Kirchner but would continue to be her boss, caused him a defeat from which
he never recovered
.
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