Alberto Fernandez y Cristina Kirchner offered with the management of the gas pipeline scandal, which THE NATION was revealed in a succession of articles throughout the week, the most incredible metaphor for management paralysis and self-destruction. Nothing that the President and the Vice President did in the last two days unlocked the work. The gas pipeline is still paralyzed. In Dead cow they continue to extract more gas than can be used. And the government continues to use the dollars that are scarce to bring in dozens of ships with imported gas, because there is no tube to use its own. Nothing transformed reality, it was only about themselves. The novel has extraordinary chapters, which would be comical if they did not take place in a country where schools are closed due to lack of heating.
The gas pipeline lie scandal, which in acts and advertisements was presented as if it were underway but in reality was paralyzed, began to come to light with the resignation of Antonio Pronsatothe official who The Campora he had gone looking because he needed someone who knew about the subject. Until then, the Energy authorities, whose heads answer to Cristina Kirchner, assured that the work was going from strength to strength. Finally, in the statement published yesterday by the company Argentine Energy To defend itself against the suspicions of corruption launched against it by the Ministry of Production, Kirchnerism recognized that the tender to buy the gas pipeline valves had failed. He argued that for this reason they could hardly favor a company.
Until then, Energy did not recognize that the tender had been dropped. In other words, to deny that they had been corrupt, Cristina Kirchner’s officials recognized themselves as ineffective. They admitted that there was not a single valve purchased for a gas pipeline that needs them to join each section of pipe. So far only THE NATION had revealed that the parts had not been imported. There is no company in Argentina that manufactures them. Without valves, there is no pipeline. The pipes were not bought either. But there were acts and announcements to celebrate the work. The scandal forced them to acknowledge the paralysis.
Last week, Pronsato’s resignation unsettled Kirchner’s Energy officials. First they managed to question his resignation. There were media outlets that did not broadcast it because they were waiting for a statement from the Secretary of Energy that was going to deny the slam. Never arrived. The next day, the Kirchnerist officials already admitted the resignation but argued that they were actually the ones who had fired him because Pronsato wanted to give the work to the company. CPCof Christopher Lopez. It was the second attempt to cover up the reality that was being revealed by the fiction that had been publicized around the Néstor Kirchner gas pipeline. But they did not present any evidence for the accusation. They only spoke in off. And just Cristina Kirchner now had the Minister of Production fired, Matias Kulfas, for the offs that raised suspicions of corruption in the Energy area. But the offs of his officials against Pronsato did not bother him. “I always spoke and acted up front, he wrote on Twitter against the Kulfas offs. The way Kirchnerism tried to cover up the gas pipeline scandal indicates something else. Cristina Kirchner also complained about those who “lie and do not show their faces.” Pronsato can give you some names. Some even have them next to them, in the Homeland Institute.
Energy argued that they sought to impose on Cristóbal López’s company. But the official who resigned had been involved in strong confrontations with Frederic Basualdothe Undersecretary of Energy who responds to Cristina Kirchner, for the obstacles to advancing with the tender for the pipes and claimed to comply with the agreement with Siatof the company Techint, which is owed about 200 million dollars as an advance. Now, to defend himself against accusations of corruptionArgentine Energy, the public company headed by the Kirchnerist Agustin Gerez, It acknowledged that Siat, the subsidiary of Techint, was the only company that had complied with the requirements of the tender. The scandal broke out at the beginning because there was no progress. What were the Kirchnerist Energy officials trying to do then? What if they were the ones who wanted to bring into the gas pipeline business another company other than the one that had won the tender? Who wanted to bring Cristóbal López’s company into reality? What if that’s why the work was delayed? It is possible that Matías Kulfas was wrong in his accusation.
It is also valid to note that if Kulfas knew that a tender was being addressed in Energy and did not report it, it is a breach of the duties of a public official. It is also a crime.
Cristina Kirchner was bothered by the off-screen accusations. Not those of her officials. Those of the others.
Alberto Fernández fired an official who had nothing to do with the project because of the Néstor Kirchner gas pipeline scandal. But the relationship between the two was preserved, even if it was between public crosses and private fury. The work, of course, is still paralyzed. The couple’s fight is behind open doors. But officials who do not work are a conjugal asset.