Irritated and aggressive: politicians upset a society fatigued by an endless crisis every day

Aníbal Fernández: “The streets watered with blood and the dead will produce if they become a Government”

Irritated, aggressive and sometimes intolerant. In recent weeks, Argentine politicians, from the ruling party and from the opposition, seem thrown into an irrational and destructive competition for whoever throws onto the public stage the most disturbing, the most controversial phrase or the one that most shocks a society fatigued by an economic crisis and endless social.

The phrase of the Minister of Security, Aníbal Fernández, anticipating a future of “streets strewn with blood and the dead” was the epitome of a painful sequence, which also included one by former President Mauricio Macri, who in a meeting with the most high-ranking businessmen in the country stated that for him it would be necessary to “semi-dynamit everything”.

These are definitions that are part of a year of presidential elections in which the crack that has ordered the politics of the last ten years no longer seems to effectively explain the map of power. The Frente de Todos y Juntos por el Cambio are no longer monolithic blocs and Javier Milei’s libertarians, with an anti-political discourse, burst onto the scene with an electoral power as unstoppable as it was unpredictable.

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Before CICyP businessmen, Macri said that “everything must be semi-dynamited.”

With this general imbalance as a backdrop, society faces on a daily basis the scourges of inflation, wages, pensions and income that is increasingly low, and relentless insecurity that alters daily life.

The assaults on the collectives in the greater Buenos Aires and the daily crimes in Rosario -both phenomena contaminated by the drug trafficker- are the current modulation of the increase in the quantity and violence of the crimes. Predictable when the economy falls. This afternoon, INDEC will release the cost of living for March, which the consensus of economists estimates is higher than lower than 7%. On rainy, wet. Even more so when the Government has to face its continuity in this context.

“What you can see is who is going to compete against whom. We see a group of people who have zero training, with a vocation for harm and for hurting, and what they propose would only come out of repression. The streets watered with blood and the dead are going to produce if they had the possibility of being a Government”, affirmed from C5N Aníbal Fernández.

The Security Minister’s statements precipitated widespread condemnation of the entire opposition, but above all of Together for Change, which found in these demonstrations the reason to regroup after a whole week of internal discussions, dissent and threats of rupture due to the clash between the head of government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, and Mauricio Macri, due to the format of the Buenos Aires elections and the leadership of the opposition.

Together for Change is going through a moment of disunity and undisguised friction. In fact, this Sunday there will be votes in Neuquén and Río Negro to elect governors and in both districts the parties that make up the opposition coalition will participate divided. Neither Larreta, nor Patricia Bullrich, María Eugenia Vidal nor Macri himself went to those provinces to participate in the last days of the campaign.

There was no agreement in Salta either, while Mendoza is going through a rebellion led by Omar De Marchi, a deputy who decided to break the PRO and put the coalition in crisis.

The disturbing phrase of Aníbal Fernández referred to the speeches that the main opposition leaders had given in a meeting with the red circle. It was in this context that Mauricio Macri spoke about the possibility that in the next elections the candidate of Together for Change will have to face Milei in the ballot and not Kirchnerism.

“It will be a challenge for our candidate who wins the internship to really show people that we have that additional experience, that team of people that we can recruit, that value of knowledge and of being part of a system that needs to be changed (. ..) Our candidate will have to demonstrate that we have the same vocation for change with experience. It is going to be a very complicated second round because every day there are more people who get angry and believe that everything has to be broken. I believe that everything must be semi-dynamited ”, he affirmed.

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In this logic, Milei joined the criticism against Larreta after the announcement of the concurrent elections for head of government and president: “She is as or just as sinister as Cristina Kirchner. The only difference is that she has good manners. Even in her thinking she does not differ with her. He believes that to end inflation, you have to go for price controls. We all know that doesn’t work,” she stated.

At the same time that the opposition offers a show of discussions and internal battles, in the Frente de Todos the agenda goes through the candidacy or not of the vice president. A large demonstration in front of the Palace of Justice, in Plaza Lavalle, in downtown Buenos Aires, chanted “Cristina Presidenta”, attacked the Supreme Court judges, called for their resignations, and denounced an alleged persecution against her by the “judicial mafia”. .

Axel Kicillof was the keynote speaker at the event organized by La Cámpora in support of Cristina Kirchner. (photo Gustavo Gavotti)

It was a massive act, where La Cámpora led the demands and revived an operational clamor that seemed hopelessly deflated. The person in charge of expressing the request of this group was the Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof, who stated: “If Cristina wants to, the people will accompany her and she will return to hold office.”

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“They tried to kill Cristina and we do not forget that this Judiciary, which always cleans up and covers up the powerful, did not even dare to lift a finger to find those responsible for it. We are peaceful but we are not stupid. Those responsible have to appear,” said the provincial president, alluding to the assassination attempt on September 1, 2022.

In the act were leaders identified with Christianity, militants of La Cámpora, unionists of public and municipal employees, metallurgists and banks. Mayors from the Buenos Aires suburbs also joined, including Fernando Espinoza, from La Matanza, who in the last ten days maintained a very low profile, after the murder of the bus driver and the brutal and reprehensible attack on Minister Sergio Berni. No other governors participated in the act, nor members of the first line of the CGT.

To President Alberto Fernández -who was not in Plaza Lavalle and continued his protocol activities-, the deputy and counselor of the Magistracy Vanesa Siley, demanded the payment of a fixed sum to recover the income of the sectors most neglected and most punished by the inflation. “We want a fixed sum, that the salary of the workers be recomposed. But that it is not a piece of paper, that the president make sure that it reaches the pockets of the workers. Let him discuss with the IMF,” she stated.

In the midst of the tensions and angry criticism of the macrismo against Larreta, the reason and content of the four videos that Larreta had recorded in the Botanical before traveling to Spain to visit his daughter remained pending. What was the head of government saying in the other three videos that were not known? Why were they recorded? Was there a last resort negotiation with Mauricio Macri?

Larreta announced the concurrent elections and triggered a crisis in Together for Change. (photo Franco Fafasuli)

As Infobae was able to learn, the audiovisual pieces were filmed with four options, two with the call to vote with a single paper ballot or a single electronic ballot and the other two with the definition of the date: that they were concurrent or separate from the national elections.

“I needed the legal reports to find out if they gave the administrative times to convene as the law says, with a single electronic ticket, and if it was possible to do it on the same date, as it ended up being announced. I wanted to travel with all the options covered, in case they did not arrive with the times”, they explained in Uspallata, the headquarters of the Buenos Aires Executive.

Once the format is defined, the call for a public tender is planned to hire the machines that will be used for voting. An expert, with deep knowledge of the electoral vicissitudes, acknowledged that except for a surprise, the MSA company would be in charge of providing the system. It is the same that this Sunday will serve in the elections for governor in the province of Neuquén and also on April 30 in the presidential elections of Paraguay. “There are 10,000 machines, more or less, that have to be hired, a thousand of them for practices and training,” the same source explained in off.

It is an operation that, likewise, will have to pass through an inevitable sieve: the electoral justice of the City of Buenos Aires. It is a muddy territory, where interests and loyalties are lost through the underground corridors of Buenos Aires politics. Not only of the PRO, which is divided between those loyal to Macri and those who respond to Larreta. Also in the Buenos Aires PJ there are divisions. The head of the Justicialista Party, the camporista Mariano Recalde, said that the announced system “does not guarantee confidence.” But Buenos Aires deputy Juan Manuel Valdés said that the concurrent elections could benefit the opposition in the City of Buenos Aires. And meanwhile, Ramiro Marra, from Milei’s party, criticized but was willing to “compete whatever.”

In each district – and CABA, rather than the exception, is the unit of measurement for all the internal ones – what dominates is the division, both between the three key actors, and within the dominant coalitions.

That macro trend is also repeated on a micro scale. In a territory like La Plata, governed by Julio Garro (JxC), a survey carried out by political teams that are not aligned with any of the majority forces confirms the same scenario and yields interesting but disturbing results.

The municipal government of Together for Change remains first, with a light advantage of 5 points, while the Frente de Todos and Libertad Avanza de Milei pulsate around 20%. The FIT is fourth, with a percentage similar to what it would obtain in a good legislative election, where voters tend to be less conservative. Being a face-to-face survey, it is more reliable than surveys carried out on social networks or by telephone.

The growth of libertarians – who still do not have a candidate for Buenos Aires governor – is a warning sign for the traditional political system, but so is another piece of information: both for president and for mayor, the options “I am not going to vote” , blank/null, and “I don’t know”, comfortably exceed 20 points.

Less than three months after the PASO, one in five voters still does not find anything that satisfies them in the electoral offer. With 37% of the census, the province of Buenos Aires continues to be the mother of all battles and where Peronism is besieged by two unknown adversaries: anti-politics and, above all, apathy.

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