The internal scale: violent reaction of Buenos Aires Kirchnerism against Tolosa Paz for the controversy with Wado de Pedro

Maria Teresa Garcia and Florence Saintout questioned Victoria Tolosa Paz for her remarks about Wado de Pedro

Far from relaxing, the rarefied climate between Kirchnerism and the entourage of President Alberto Fernández as a result of an alleged insult to the Interior Minister Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro continues. First, it was the circle of the official himself who let his annoyance for not having been included in the meeting on Monday, January 23, between the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, and leaders of Human Rights organizations, in a gathering organized in the White Room of the Casa Rosada.

After the commotion generated by the exposure of a new internal fracture within the government, the Minister of Social Development, Victoria Tolosa Paz, close to the president, demanded that her colleague from the national cabinet provide explanations regarding the version of her anger and, if so, openly own up to it. “Either you are inside or you are outside,” the official pressed in statements to the Mar del Plata media.

The Albertista minister’s questioning of De Pedro, who is very close to Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, generated a new response, this time from the government of the province of Buenos Aires, headed by another member of Kirchnerism such as Axel Kicillof. Indeed, it was the former dean of the Faculty of Journalism of La Plata and current president of the Cultural Institute of the GPBA, Florencia Saintout, a political adversary of Tolosa Paz in La Plata, who came out at the crossroads.

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“First the homeland, then the movement and finally the people Victoria Tolosa Paz, I repeat it to you because it seems that you never understood it,” said the Buenos Aires official on her Twitter social network account, applauding the current minister who had a step by the deliberative council of La Plata, a district where Saintout is an adversary within Peronism.

Florencia Saintout called Victoria Tolosa Paz “anti-Peronist” (Twitter)

A little before Saintout, another referent of Buenos Aires Kirchnerism had questioned Minister Tolosa Paz in a similar tone. The former government minister and current senator for the province of Buenos Aires, María Teresa García, had expressed that she did not find the approach towards Wado de Pedro “responsible”. “We all work to move the country forward, I don’t think its consideration is responsible,” she wrote García, enthralling the head of the Social Development portfolio.

María Teresa García questioned Victoria Tolosa Paz (Twitter)

The public discussion that takes place in the Frente de Todos is part of the umpteenth version of the internal one that exhibits the political space that came to the national government in 2019, as a result of the lack of agreement between two of its highest references, President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

The outburst this time came from the anger expressed around the minister of the interior, who is the son of the disappeared, founder of the organization HIJOS and has very close ties to the rest of the organizations. De Pedro considered that he was left out of the meeting with Lula due to a resentment towards his potential candidacy for president in 2023. “Mixing those things (due to the struggle for Human Rights) with electoral speculation is no longer having codes,” they said close of the official

Conversely, from Casa Rosada those close to President Fernández consider that the controversy is promoted by De Pedro himself with the aim of raising his profile with the presidential race this year as the underlying objective.

“It is not very clear to me if it is an off-screen information from the minister or from his environment. If they were statements by the minister himself, I think it is a good time to clarify if it is a media transcendence used for some purpose. It is a good time for Minister De Pedro to clarify whether this happened or not because they put in his mouth some situation such as lack of codes. If there is a lack of codes, in any case, it is in reference to who is part of a government and criticizes the government”, said Victoria Tolosa Paz, in the first open response from the presidential environment towards the Kirchnerist minister.

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