Martín Guzmán and Cristina Kirchner were very opposed. Photo: Marcelo Carroll
Alberto does not understand that you are the boss. He never understood that the boss is the boss. Alberto was a moderate and we went to look for him so that he could rule with her. Not only did we go looking for him, we had the gesture of giving him the highest position, but the day after the PASO, with the electoral result, he changed and left the project. To govern is to discipline economic power. Things don’t fix themselves and he wants to surf. Cristina was silent for almost two years, but we were left without political authority. We entered the quicksand. The government has failed and could overturn. We are doing everything we can to ensure that the situation does not get out of control, but the possibility is there. It is necessary to put in place an emergency plan, an operation of wage and social income recomposition to generate expectations and recover the electoral base.
is the living thought of La Cámpora, the indissoluble group of the vice president. For its members and for “La jefa”, the administration of Alberto Fernández is, as it was structured on 10 December 2019, completed. There will be no survival for the Front of All if the Government does not take an absolute change in its policies, especially economic ones, and if that turn is not preceded by a general reorganization of the Council of Ministers and of the main areas. Is Alberto able to promote such a change of course? The campers and their boss say no. But it happens that there are a year and five months to go before the change of command. So?
Speculations of all kinds have arisen, much more since this Saturday afternoon, when – in the midst of Cristina’s speech in Ensenada – Martín Guzmán presented his resignation from the Ministry of Economy. Another piece that Alberto had defended tooth and nail falls on the street. “Impossible to handle with Cristina against“Transcends the outgoing minister. Sources close to the President have revealed that in recent days they have seen him, for the first time, very angry about the obstacles and the trips that the vice has dedicated to him. He said it before saying goodbye to Fernández. Alberto tried to contain it. He could not.
The spokes in the wheel that, they say, they put in with the fare segmentation was the last bad drink he didn’t want to drink. “I had no tools to follow. They locked him up in the form. His was an act of responsibility “.they added in their environment.
Guzmán is likely to have interpreted that he would be back on the field for him as Thursday 14 approaches, the day Indec releases its June inflation index. Those pressures never relaxed, but they would be fierce, even – he feared – personal.. something has changed in the last few days. Cristina has decided to speak more and more often, almost like in the days when she was president.
Will Fernandez resist? An increasingly widespread hypothesis in the Red circle He claims it will be difficult for Fernández to reach the last day of management under the permanent and oppressive shadow of his mentor. In the environment of the vice president, they assure that even if Alberto wanted to, he could not leave before his time. “We wouldn’t allow it.”Says a source who despises Alberto.
Andrés Larroque, minister of Axel Kicillof and a powerful voice within La Cámpora, has just said that Cristina is the only one who can generate hope. He was quickly associated with the upcoming presidential contest. But there have been those who have wondered if it meant nothing else, if it weren’t a kind of ultimatum to the presidential figure. The number of public meetings, but above all secret ones, that Cristina has with businessmen, economists and, lately, with representatives of albertism, does not cease to seem suggestive to many. What does he do if, as he says, Alberto ignores her?
Cristina returned to the table yesterday, in Ensenada. Guzmán surprised her live with her resignation. It wasn’t as belligerent a speech as expected, but Alberto may have to rethink his point of view that his partner’s ironic brush strokes or blunt attacks, without metaphors and straight to the heart “hurt her, not me. “, as he told her. Matías Kulfas, the day he kicked him out. That day, the outgoing Minister of Productive Development claimed to have jumped in his defense of him. Something similar could happen now with Guzmán.
Almost no one asks Alberto to rethink the strategy, not even in the relationship with his ally. Voices calling for more momentum or gestures of political independence have disappeared. The spirit of self-preservation begins to prevail in the Albertist wing which intends to continue in politics after next year. None of them intend to commit suicide.
Juan Zabaleta, the Minister of Social Development, has already established bridges with Cristina; In San Martín, land of the Minister of Public Works, Gabriel Katopodis, the posters have disappeared with Alberto’s smile: where before there were photos of both, now only the minister appears with the current mayor, Fernando Moreira; Jorge Ferraresi, Minister for Territorial Development and Habitat, got bored: he went from asking for Alberto’s re-election to applauding, along with Cristina, his criticisms in the Cabinet.
Alberto feels cornered. He distrusts most of his interlocutors, isolates himself and confides his intimate thoughts only in front of a small group of faithful. Few comments on his fluctuating media behavior of him. The interview on C5N was again verified by Christianity. His statement that he will “surely” compete in the PASO shocked the uncompromising Christinist, who considered him an affront. It was one of the few passages where the head of state was sure. In the rest of the conversation he seemed erratic, he mixed up names and forgot even what he was asked. It wasn’t the first time this happened.
Cristina seems to have taken note, after a period in which she tried to convince, or convince herself, that with an effective story she could have conveyed the opposite of two phenomena. If she and La Cámpora are inseparable, unfortunately, so too is the partnership with Fernández. You say so, you are part of it, you manage a large part of the state’s resources. You can’t not pay the costs of the debacle.
The second phenomenon he acknowledges is that his method of nominating candidates, always arbitrary, he would no longer be tolerated even by his own parishioners, which says a lot. “He’ll have to play if he doesn’t want interns,” she dictates her to her subjects. The uproar operation has begun. Yesterday in Ensenada there were allusive songs.
Cristina will not say a word on the subject because, moreover, its popularity is declining and it is reaching historic levels of rejection. She explains the situation of the Conurbano, her stronghold, on the edge of the abyss. Prices are rising exorbitantly and the government’s response is not always pacifying. Gabriela Cerruti, the spokesperson, sent a reporter to change supermarket. She told him that she was being scammed.
At the Palacio de Hacienda they crossed their fingers so that the June figure is below 5.1% in May, but private consultants say it will be higher. If so, the new minister would have extra pressure. Will Guzmán’s promise that monthly inflation was 6.7% in March be kept? The inflationary phenomenon was part of the last conversation between Alberto and Guzmán. Those who spoke to the President this afternoon noted that he was angry and bewildered.
Santiago Floriti
Source: Clarin
