After his public statements on the functioning of the Government, in the midst of the tension within the ruling party, President Alberto Fernández shared a management photograph this afternoon with governors of different political persuasions and officials from his Cabinet. Among them were several Kirchnerist referentslike the Buenos Aires Axel Kicillo; and the ministers Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro, Martín Soria and Tristán Bauer.
Also part of the party was Darío Martínez, the Secretary of Energy, who last week was protagonist of the official intern after a letter that he sent, in harsh terms, to the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán, emerged.
The meeting was within the framework of the first meeting of the year of National Climate Change Office, which was held at the Casa Rosada Bicentennial Museum, behind closed doors. After the meeting, the Minister of the Environment, Juan Cabandié; the secretary Cecilia Nicolini and the governor of Corrientes, Gustavo Valdés, spoke in the Patio de las Palmeras with those accredited, but They avoided referring to the differences between the president and the wing of hard-line Kirchnerism, headed by Cristina Kirchner.
In Balcarce 50 they sought to avoid a political reading of the meeting and assured that the President always attends this type of meeting, after which they added that it was already coordinated beforehand. At the same time, they highlighted that the frequency of these meetings is every six months. “Not everything is internal, here there is also management”assured in the Casa Rosada.
Initially, the meeting had been broadcast on the official agenda without further details of who would attend except the names of Cabandié and Nicolini. But finally, At today’s meeting, Fernández was accompanied by the Chief of Staff Juan Manzur; the chancellor, Santiago Cafiero and the ministers Cabandié, Matías Lammens, Eduardo de Pedro; Claudio Moroni; Julian Dominguez, Jorge Taiana; Elizabeth Gomez Alcorta; Aníbal Fernández, Martín Soria, Tristán Bauer and Juan Zabaleta. On behalf of Matías Kulfas and Carla Vizzotti, second lines of their portfolios arrived.
In person were the governors Gustavo Valdés, Gerardo Morales, Ricardo Quintela, Axel Kicillof; Alberto Rodríguez Saá, Sergio Zilitto; Oscar Herrera Auad and Raúl Jalil. The deputy governors of Santa Cruz, Eugenio Quiroga; Sergio Mansilla of Tucuman. While Oscar Perotti from Santa Fe attended virtually; Gerardo Zamora from Santiago del Estero; Rodolfo Suárez de Mendoza and the lieutenant governor of Formosa, Eber Solís.
Fernández arrived this morning at Balcarce 50, at 11:40. He made it late (the meeting was planned for 11:30) because he arrived after giving a series of radio statements in which he referred to the fierce internal unleashed in the government alliance. “We cannot afford to disunite”and added that “They question my ways because I don’t say it out loud, but I do what has to be done”.
The president added “there is no collegiate Presidency” and on the approval in the National Congress of the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)said “It allows us to accumulate foreign currency and with that it helps us fight inflation” and in that sense he added: “I don’t believe in anti-inflationary shocks.”
In the middle of rumors of a break in the FdTFernández sought to contain the internal crisis in the ruling coalition and sent a message to Kirchnerism: “Because of narcissism or selfishness, we cannot afford to disunite”. In several passages of the interview with The Uncover Radio that “unity is absolutely necessary.” And in that sense, he stated: “We must be the first to agree, from our side no one wants any action of rupture.”
Fernández called on the members of the space to “be united so that those who already did and left incalculable damage do not govern again.” “Do not expect a single gesture from me against unity”asserted the president in the interview, in which he clarified: “I am the President and I am the one who has to make the decisions”.