The presidential spokesperson,
Manuel Adorni
, had finished his usual introduction to the press conferences he gives every day at Casa Rosada before the journalists accredited there, when it was time for questions.
The first turn went to Fabian Waiman, from FM radio La Patriada.
The exchange began with cordiality, with Adorni greeting the reporter and commenting that he had not seen him in the press room for a while.
"We miss you, Fabian. Were you on vacation?" He asked, almost reversing the roles of questioner/asked.
The journalist answered briefly, and immediately began to name
colleagues and photographers who suffered injuries during the incidents
recorded on Thursday in the Plaza de los Dos Congresos during the debate in the Chamber of Deputies for the Omnibus Law.
While the names followed one another, Adorni wanted to interrupt him a couple of times, asking him to ask the question.
"Your colleagues want to ask, Fabián, what is the question?" He said, with a certain tone of annoyance.
Finally, after more than a minute of prefaces, the journalist from Télam reached his objective.
"The specific question is: does this Government actually want freedom of the press, so that what is happening can be transmitted, such as what happened yesterday in Congress?" He inquired.
The response, short and blunt, was immediate.
"Yes. Next question?"
, he said laconically.
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