The President accepted the resignations of the ministers of Social Development, Juan Zabaleta, and of job, Claudio Moroni. Official sources confirmed to THE NATION the novelty (which only lacked the date) and added that it remains for the replacements to be announced this Monday. Fernández will make a reformulation of the Cabinet because on Friday the head of the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity presented her indeclinable resignation, Elizabeth Gomez Alcortain dissidence with the eviction operation in Villa Mascardi.
In this way, the President will have to define three names.
After the departure of Gómez Alcorta amid tensions with the Minister of Security, Hannibal Fernandez -which this morning came out to respond to internal criticism-, Moroni will leave the Executive, as published THE NATION this Sunday. From his wallet they allege that “A long time ago” the official had conveyed his desire to leave his post and that his departure was precipitated by the decision of the Minister for Women. “It was agreed, it is not a unilateral decision, Claudio was going to stay until the President decides, they talked about it among themselves,” said a source.
As head of the Work area since 2019, Moroni was one of the leaders who accompanied the President for the longest time in his administration. Only a handful of members of the Cabinet remain in office since Fernández landed at Balcarce 50: the Minister of Tourism, Matías Lammens; the environment, Juan Cabandie; y santiago cafierowhich however passed from the Chief of Cabinet to the Chancellery.
However, the job holder He never convinced Kirchnerism and was included in the list of “officials who don’t work” that Cristina Kirchner once referred to. Even, in one of the latest attacks, this week the general secretary of La Cámpora, Andres Larroque, spoke of a Moroni’s “management deficit” and criticized the way in which the minister dealt with the tire dispute.
Among the names being considered to succeed him is that of Charles taken, who has already fulfilled that role together with Néstor and Cristina Kirchner; and the one of Sergio Palazzothe pro-government deputy who is secretary general of La Bancaria.
Meanwhile, from high spheres of the portfolio that Zabaleta led, it was also known inside doors that from For a long time, the Minister of Social Development had the intention of returning to the Hurlingham administration to run for re-election next year. and that I was waiting for the approval of the President to do so. as he was able to reconstruct LA NACION, his resignation was submitted 60 days ago. In his suburban district, he faces an internal challenge with leaders from La Cámpora.
A secretary of this area assumed before this media that the change in the leadership of Social Development will not imply a modification in the course printed by Zabaleta, a minister who had to face repeated and massive protests from leftist social organizations, even at times worst of the pandemic. “There are no conditions for a great transformation”, tried to explain.
In the last few hours it transpired that the national deputy Victoria Tolosa Paz -which has terminal in the President- could assume power in this ministry, with a strong lottery in its ranks.
These two changes will be added to the replacement of Gómez Alcorta, who slammed the door on Thursday in rejection of the operations of the federal forces – commanded by Aníbal Fernández – to evict the Mapuche usurpations in Patagonia. Through a letter, the then minister said that she was leaving the Government because the arrests of women and children in Río Negro with the participation they were “incompatible” with the “values” that she defends. In that letter it was lethal: spoke of “obvious violations of human rights.”
In this regard, the version that the President could place at the head of the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity the spokeswoman, Gabriela Cerrutti, something that would have lost weight in the last few hours. consulted by THE NATIONCerrutti said that “there is nothing like that” and that “The decisions made by the President will be known on Monday.”
On Friday, meanwhile, it was thought that in front of the area he could assume Maria Cristina “Marita” Perceval. Current official of the ministry and very well in tune with Kirchnerism, Perceval would have been recommended by Gómez Alcorta to succeed her to the President in Olivos, on Thursday.
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