The crisis of the government party a Deputies has reduced Sergio Massa to the (short) stature of Alberto and Cristina. This scenario it opens up some counterattack space for the president at the top of the government. At the end of the year he regains the power to convene extraordinary sessions of Congress, which neither Alberto nor Cristina have. To put it in the fashion lexicon, he’ll be holding the ball for a while.
He will examine what he will do, whether a set piece or a set piece attempt. Or, as usual, he’ll catch her in the area and they’ll charge him a penalty. The The opportunities each president has to impose the issues that the cameras will address are extraordinary. What he does will reveal the direction he wants to give to the last year of his administration.
If you don’t summon Extraordinary, you will reveal that you lack the initiative to switch roles. If you call Extraordinary, it will show what your true interests are. I am certainly not the creation of universities or social security moratoria. It has the opportunity for a change of course to recover national space.
A new agenda also requires an agreement with the opposition, such as the one that allowed the Guzmán laws to be approved for the new government (December 2019 emergency and February 2020 debt).
All the complicated deal fronts
Alberto is not the best time for someone from the opposition to answer the phone. Oh he harassed his opponents on all fronts and lost on all. He has assembled a siege of governors around the CABA administration to resist the court’s order to return funds to Larreta, claiming he is taking them away from the provinces.
This emergency interrupts funding with discretionary availability funds: from a backpack fed by the takeaways at CABA – to friendly neighborhoods, such as Buenos Aires.
Trina Axel Kicillof, who a week ago pledged 60,000 million dollars to her own mayors and those of the opposition for public works. With this you unlocked the approval of the budget. Now you have to make a pilgrimage to Olivos to have those funds, with a national government forced to return the IV to CABA.
The president also harassed the opposition by advising Milagro Sala’s lawyers to seek pardon from international justice. They can do it there, because neither Gerardo Morales nor I will, he said.
In international courts, the executive branch always sits as the defendant. If it’s his turn, he’ll accept the lawsuit and accept the pardon he says he can’t sign.
Nothing said on the subject must lose sight of the fact that Milagro Sala is a symbolic projection of Cristina de Kirchner for the ruling party. To the activist Jujuy she defends herself in a parodic way to review topics applicable to Cristina: he is politically persecuted and must be pardoned. If Milagro succeeds, the measure will be at the door for Cristina.
Third defeat against opponents
This bureaucracy appears without embarrassment on TV throwing minority grievances in a role that shows him, in slow motion, picking up the ball from the goal. If there is unhappiness, he lets it go unnoticed.
The Peronism of the deputies he looks dejected after a three-game losing streak failing to make the quorum: 1) lack of election of authorities; 2) transitional quorum for the following session; 3) last Wednesday’s bankruptcy.
It was the result of the task of the opposition office which renewed the specifications. One was Mauricio Macri, recently arrived from Qatar, who was in charge of demobilizing a pawn within the radical family, Rodrigo de Loredo, with the mission of preventing the Evolution bloc from giving the quorum to meet on Wednesday. The other was Mario Negri, who turned the light back on in his headquarters office as the opposition front left the ruling party to reunite.
Macri’s hand on a radical tribe
Deputies’ misdeeds gave Macri the opportunity to show strength inside and out. It didn’t cost much to the PRO unify the position of denying quorum to Wednesday’s session. That the members of Evolución – alleged collaborators of the ruling party – have compromised Larreta, a member of that tribe in the capital.
The ruling party boasted of numbers because it had an agreement with Evolución, a faction referred to in Martín Lousteau. Macri operated on that tribe through Rodrigo de Loredo, who disputes with Luis Juez in Córdoba. De Loredo, like other evolutionists, denied that there was an express agreement with Massa and Peronism to approve the creation of universities. It was, however, an agreement subject to other conditions. Macri let evolutionists know that appearing seated next to Máximo Kirchner, Leopoldo Moreau or Rodolfo Tailhade would have an effect on the relationship with Lousteau.
Negri, once again the axis of the opposition
On the same anvil hit Negri, who brought together the UCR bloc on Tuesday evening for a seminar followed by a barbecue in the Legislators’ Circle on Rue Bartolomé Mitre. In front of more than twenty deputies, he begged them not to move from the Chamber the next dayin case the ruling party has reached a quorum, with or without Evolution.
At that time, the official offer to the PRO was known, through Cristian Ritondo, to add the treatment of the rental bill. They rejected it, because the majority opinion belongs to the governing party and the opposition wants to discuss it before taking it to the headquarters. By Wednesday morning all the blocks, including Evolución, had agreed not to enter the session and were waiting for the time in Negri’s office, once again the axis of the position. They stayed in the house in case it was necessary to come in to discuss in case it started.
At the beginning of the session there was also friction within the opposition. De Loredo, who had already announced that Evolución would not enter, passed by Negri’s office – where Gerardo Morales was – and someone who pointed to the television screen with the transmission of the minority session, told him: “- Imagine what it would have been like if you were sitting there?” De Loredo’s eyes widened more than usual, a sign that he admitted the reproach.
Massa, out of ammo and snubbed
It’s not about projects or management. It’s a proxy war. Massa promises a whitewash project every day, but no one has even seen the draft. A first contact with the opposition economists was lost a couple of weeks ago.
The important thing for Massa was maintain the veneer of running the Chamber of Deputies in an invertebrate government. This role allowed him to promise measures to the markets – anti-money laundering, agro-industrial law, etc. – and credit bureaus. Martín Guzmán managed to get Congress to pass the 2019 emergency and 2020 debt laws because there was control over the ruling party in Congress. That has been lost.
Massa also failed to get Cecilia Moreau re-elected to the presidency of the Chamber. Without that artillery piece Massa has reduced his ability to negotiate anything. You also know that the information managed by market analysts and international organizations is prepared in Argentina and that It’s very difficult to simulate power that you don’t have.
The proof is that other demerits dot it. The AFA president not only prevented Messi from greeting Eduardo de Pedro, but also prevented the team’s official sponsors – Aerolíneas, YPF -, who stayed out of the videos. He also granted the rejection to the head of customs, Guillermo Michel, who assured on the first morning of the arrival of the Selection that the checks had been carried out. Michel is Sergio Massa’s man, whom he represented as a negotiator in Congress. He also finished the greetings at the foot of the stairs.
Until February to decide the nominations
Macri’s assignment ran throughout Tuesday, the day he met at the Pepino hamburger restaurant in Martínez. He came from Qatar and asked for a meeting with the group he listens to most at the moment: Miguel Pichetto, Jorge Triaca, Jorge Macri and Hernán Lombardi (who couldn’t come because he was in Pinamar). Jorge Franco, Pichetto’s right arm, and Fernando Andreis, personal secretary, were added.
It is advisable to keep the photo of this group because it is the one Macri chose to listen to the report on what has happened in the country since he went to the World Cup. He repaid with a detailed account of the World Cup away match, where he made an effort to be unobtrusive in public as a host of FIFA.
On what concerns everyone, he promised that until February he will not communicate any decisions on candidates’ candidacies or options. Pichetto and Triaca have tried to convince him that he doesn’t have much more time and that, moreover, he must intervene in the conduct of his party to avoid dispersal and superficial struggles. Some of those present promised to visit him in January in La Angostura, where Macri went on Thursday.
Theses found on Cristina
At Peppino’s table there was much debate about the fate of the female branch. Jorge Macri asked Macri the question of what María Eugenia Vidal will do. For? Because Jorge Macri wants to know if Macri will promote him in the city. He answered like this would see her move more for some national screening.
There is no more effective booby trap in the PRO than saying no one handles Vidal. As effective as saying everyone can handle Patricia Bullrich. The center of the speech revolved around the candidacy or otherwise of Cristina de Kirchner.
Pichetto explained details of the vice president’s personality that her interlocutors drank with gusto. You quoted Napoleon: “Deciding is the hardest”.
Macri smiles because she knows what He’s talking about him too and not just about her. The former senator believes that beyond words there are necessary rituals in Peronism, which can break promises, such as a massive appeal for Cristina’s participation (“vulgar operational clamor”). But it wasn’t conclusive and showed a menu of options to choose from that Cristina herself would be interested to hear.
The Cumelen connection
Jorge Triaca, who Macri has as a premium strategist, inclined to the idea of being closer to keeping their word. Would you be a candidate to guarantee a unity of Peronism which, in the end, you yourself do not achieve? The unit you sealed off in 2019 It did not help him improve his political or judicial situation.
Nor did they follow her lead on the economy and lead her to speak as if she were an adversary. Triaca seemed to lean towards her hypothesis that she will keep her promise not to run. The panel agreed that this scenario could improve the opposition’s chances of winning elections in the first round.
Macri smiles covering his mouth with his hand, like players when they want to say the unspeakable. You have to believe that a first-round win scenario improves your candidate’s profile. And Horace? They greeted each other on the phone and talked about football. He will see it in the south, where Larreta will wait for the year, still in Cumelén. What about health? Better, and he lifts one foot.
Everyone wonders what the nautical shoe has to do with the functions it has tried to improve with the latest prostate surgery. He has to wear comfortable shoes that improve his walking, because now the problem is his spine and it hurts when he walks. None of these ailments prevented him from appearing in photos of him playing soccer in La Matanza, a practice to which Mayor Diego Valenzuela has contributed with news, such as playing soccer with glasses. Never seen.
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Source: Clarin
