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Hardly anyone remembers anymore, but less than five months ago, when the Independiente elections still had an assigned date and place, Hugo Moyano summoned the club’s opposition to the Hotel Scala to seek unity. Today, with the elections in limbo and a driving situation hampered by the soccer, economic and institutional present, the intention is similar but it occurs in different scenarios, even in some without the trucker leader knowing it.
The high tension in Independiente brought collateral effects that affect beyond the border of the Avellaneda club: to the increasingly recurrent rudeness between Hugo and Pablo Moyano for the leadership of the Truckers’ union and, above all, for the social work of that union space, is now joined by confrontations over the present of Rojo, a hot stone that even the most powerful unionist in Argentina can burn.
Without being part of the armed or the official list before the Justice suspended the elections, Pablo is completely out of the day-to-day management of the club. His fight with Hugo had a prequel: the permanent crosses that he maintained for months with Héctor “Yoyo” Maldonado, Hugo’s historic sidekick and recently presented as vice on the list that will replace Marcelo Tinelli in the Professional League. The inclusion of Yoyo, offered as the voice of the “big five” in the list headed by the president of Argentina, Cristian Malaspina, was also a political message that had different readings in the Moyano family.
Banks. With a chaos that is evident in each local game in the Libertadores de América, and that against Racing crossed the limit of what was imagined for Moyano’s environment, the search for a unity candidate was activated again, both on one side and on the other. another from the red crack. “This institutionally and politically endures because Hugo is here. With another person, he wears you”, tells PROFILE one of the many directors who started with Moyano’s management and then resigned.
There are many leaders of different groups who are working to achieve an institutional solution to this crisis. And these groups receive the approval of some government offices, which do not want the chaos to spread beyond Avellaneda.
Most agree that Fabio Fernández could be the candidate who amalgamates the opposing views represented by Moyano on one side, and the Champagne Group on the other, led by Cristian Ritondo, who found in the television host Fabián Doman a frontman who dilutes the explicit macrismo of his assembly, in which the mayor of Lanús, Néstor Grindetti, a sector of radicalism with arrival at Martín Lousteau and Martín Redrado, and even Patricia Bullrich converge. “The solution is unity, but that unity is not guaranteed by Doman or Moyano,” they slip from a government sector.
Owner of the popular Pertutti confectionery, Fabio Fernández resigned as treasurer of Moyano in 2018, just 44 days after assuming that position. The months following that decision did not go well. Perhaps because of those memories whose details are circumscribed to the circles of power, Fernández does not take the step forward that many aspire for him to give. He knows that there are polls from different sides, including Moyanism, and he responds to all of them with a request: to sign a non-confrontational future. Something that neither he nor anyone else can guarantee these days.
A march almost without people
Yesterday afternoon, with the excuse of Independiente Fan Day, a small group of fans and partners gathered in the center of Avellaneda to demand that an election date be set. The present questioning of Hugo Moyano’s management also dominated the scene.
The meeting was in the Plaza Alsina and the self-convocation did not exceed five hundred people, which led to ridicule and criticism from the social networks that follow the red policy.
The slogan was to press for a call for elections in the club and there were no party flags, although some media reported that the march was promoted by Pablo “Bebote” Álvarez, the former leader of the barra, now turned into a fervent opponent of the Moyano management.