“Did the President really want to resign?”, journalist Luis Majul said without hesitation in his classic Sunday editorial on La Cornisa, on the Argentine channel LN+.
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In the midst of a very critical moment within the Frente de Todos after the resignation of Martín Guzmán, the journalist delved into the conflicts between Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner. And so, he tried to answer the “million dollar question” through an opinion column.
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Luis Majul’s column
Did the President really want to resign? We cannot guarantee it.
We do know that he admitted the possibility of doing so, for the first time, explicitly, last Sunday night. It was minutes before calling Cristina.
It was written by Jorge Liotti, from The nationand Santiago Fioriti, of Clarionamong other colleagues.
He was heard by Vilma Ibarra, Gustavo Béliz, Julio Vitobello and Santiago Cafiero, among other eyewitnesses. When Alberto and the vice, at the end, began to talk, the abyss was there, very close.
What’s more: before picking up the phone, she had already heard of Alberto’s “threat”, overwhelmed, after Martín Guzmán’s untimely attack.
They say that this time Cristina was also scared. As never before. As if he had become aware, after two and a half years of permanent harassment, that, perhaps, he had gotten a little out of hand.
“Too late for tears”, we commented on Friday, in Voices, citing the title of a 1947 film.
Close to the president they say that Alberto, no matter what happens, will never forgive him for the shelving that Cristina gave him last Saturday, in Ensenada, by suggesting that he used his telephone inappropriately.
Those who share the president’s indignation wonder what would happen if Cristina delivered her own iPhone 13 Pro Max, valued at 600 thousand pesos, so that we can all see who she communicates with.
How curious: now the publication of Cristina’s legal wiretapping, which, before, the members of unborn Albertism repudiated, serves to argue that inappropriate things can also be said and done from the vice’s phone.
Did WHAT just happened in Sri Lanka scare you, when thousands of people took over the government palace?
How to send judges to tighten. It is true that the President and the vice president, and also Sergio Massa, are not united by love, but by fear. What is not certain is that they have agreed to a new alliance.
They only agreed to run forward. How? Appointing Silvina Batakis, a weightless Economy Minister, but not vetoed, in advance, by Cristina. And blaming the serious crisis on anyone except themselves.
To Guzman. To Macri. To the media and journalists. To the “onslaught of the concentrated groups”. But it is useless. The sun cannot be covered with the hand. If even children realize the true original sin.
There is no better or worse here. They are all huge irresponsible people. Christina, first of all.
Alberto, competing for first place. Guzmán, whose ego turned out to be much bigger than his ability to manage the economy.
And even Massa, who overestimated his attributes as a mediator, and now warns that if everything ends up rotting “people will not distinguish between the ruling party and the opposition and between journalists who are friends of the government and independent journalists.”
Did what just happened in Sri Lanka scare them, when thousands of people took over the government palace, after the untimely flight of the president and the prime minister, anchored in power for 20 years, due to the worst economic crisis since it gained independence from the UK in 1948?
It seems to us that the majority of society knows how to differentiate between those of us who describe, investigate and denounce the disaster, and those who are producing it.
The data is visible:
In less than a month, the parallel dollar rose 25 percent.
According to the Emmanuel Alvarez Agis consultancy, which follows the evolution of 30,000 online products, only during the last week:
Fluid milk increased 2.2 percent.
Fresh bread 1.7 percent.
Fish and shellfish, three percent.
The apple two percent.
The crockery eight percent.
Furniture 12.1 percent.
Outerwear, nine percent.
T-shirts and shirts 14 percent.
The pants almost 7 percent.
Sports shoes, almost 35 percent.
As if this were not enough, on the shelves there were 11 percent fewer food products, almost 32 percent fewer household products and 6.1 percent fewer clothing products.
Coffee, sugar, tires, dog food are now hardly available, and we all derive them from paper: from notebooks to toilet paper.
Annual inflation is already estimated at 80 percent.
The dollar counted with liquidation just closed at 300 pesos. Are we at the gates of a hyper, similar to the end of the Alfonsín government, or a Rodrigazo, like the one experienced in 1974? Certain classical analysts present as good news the data of the supposed sincerity of the political scenario.
They say that it would show, finally, that the one who governs will be Cristina.
They are based on the latest bravado by Máximo “Peligro” Kirchner. They are also based on Cristina’s black humor about the game of flipping ministers.
Yesterday, the massive flag that arrived at the gates of the Casa Rosada included torches in the Obelisk, a guillotine in Plaza de Mayo, a massive demand for justice for the corruption crimes attributed to Cristina, a request for early elections and the slogan: “Let them all go.”
They played too much with fire and now they are afraid of getting burned. But nothing bodes well that they have learned anything from last weekend’s disaster.
Because Cristina continues to press for more issuance, more stocks, and more pressure on the IMF to extend the debt payment terms. In short: much more gasoline to the fire, because enough gas oil is still not available.
Alberto again postponed, for the umpteenth time, what he threatened to do on Sunday night: ask everyone to resign, to inaugurate another system of power, without Cámpora or Cristina.
And Massa, in the last meeting with the president, insisted on the idea that he would only accept the chief of staff with attributes included, and without anyone questioning the decisions he intends to make.
Namely: in the midst of the collapse, they are still clinging to the boxes and the power, disconnected from reality and from the majority of the people.
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