2023-06-29 03:11:47
On Wednesday morning, the national cabinet convened by Agustín Rossi and chaired by President Alberto Fernández met, and with the presence of Sergio Massa, the presidential candidate from the “unity and consensus” list of the majority sectors of Unión por la Homeland. The centrality of the Casa Rosada in the ruling party did not last long: hours later, Cristina Kirchner monopolized the spotlight. She first gathered Massa, Máximo, Wado de Pedro and Axel Kicillof in her office, and then she held a one-on-one meeting with Daniel Scioli. The meeting with the ambassador was confirmed by Cristina Kirchner, while the other meeting was kept in reserve.
“The meeting was held alone,” confirmed a source linked to the Brazilian ambassador at five in the afternoon on Wednesday, in what was a first for this medium. “On Sunday they had talked by phone and agreed to see each other today,” added the same source. Scioli entered the Senate building shortly after 4:55 p.m.
Ten minutes later he left the Wado de Pedro building, without informing who he had met with. At that time, the truck that Massa uses was parked in front of the Senate, it surrounded the Congress until the door of Deputies, from where the Minister of Economy and presidential candidate came out.
At 6:29 p.m., Cristina Kirchner confirmed the meeting with Scioli, with a photo of the two of them in the Senate office: “Just in my Senate office with Daniel Scioli, Argentine ambassador to Brazil. We have known each other for a long time… To be more precise, since 1997, when we were both National Deputies. We talk a lot, honestly and with the usual respect. He told me that his vocation is to help and collaborate as one more comrade, and he made me very happy when he told me that tomorrow Sergio Massa, the Minister of Economy, will receive him to address issues related to the Argentina-Brazil bilateral relationship. . To continue working, which is what must be done, ”wrote the vice president on her Twitter account.
Just in my office in the Senate with Daniel Scioli, Argentine ambassador to Brazil.
We have known each other for a long time… To be more precise, since 1997, when we were both National Deputies.
We talk a lot, honestly and with the usual respect. I… pic.twitter.com/a5AgfdACIA
— Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) June 28, 2023
On the other hand, there was no official information about the summit that took place before, between the vice president, Massa, Máximo, De Pedro and the governor of Buenos Aires.
Scioli’s visit to Cristina Kirchner ended up aligning the ambassador in Brazil behind the Unión por la Patria consensus formula demanded by the governors, requested by the CGT and endorsed by the vice president, and also by Alberto Fernández.
It was not easy for Scioli to abandon the presidential race last Friday afternoon, when he was called to tell him that the governors, Cristina Kirchner and the president had agreed on “a list of unity”, headed by Massa. “Al Rossi was proposed by Máximo, from La Cámpora,” Cristina Kirchner pointed out last Monday, in the act that she shared with Massa for the repatriation of the plane that was used in the “death flights” of the last dictatorship.
That day the vice president said that she had called Scioli on Sunday night and did not say more. Scioli made it known that that call “was a caress to the soul.” But something else – and very serious – transpired: in the agreement reached by the different sectors, Scioli was on the list of national deputies of the Province of Buenos Aires, but his place ended up being occupied by Santiago Cafiero. Scioli neither confirmed nor denied the version that spoke of “betrayal” on the part of Albertism.
Without rancor, “with optimism” as he usually says, the ambassador in Brazil accompanied Alberto Fernández on Monday on his visit to Lula da Silva in Brasilia, today he took a photo with Cristina Kirchner and tomorrow he will meet with Sergio Massa.
The vice president was very critical of Alberto Fernández and his ministers Victoria Tolosa Paz and Cafiero, who were ranked second and fifth on the Unión por la Patria list in the province of Buenos Aires. She held the president responsible for “the most important parliamentary defeat of the democracy of Peronism”, in reference to 2021, and for forcing an internal one that no important sector of the ruling party endorsed until the last moment.
“It was a very good meeting,” Scioli said of his reunion with Cristina Kirchner, whom he praised for her “high sense of responsibility.”
Casa Rosada released an image on Wednesday morning with Alberto Fernández flanked by Massa and Rossi, going to the cabinet meeting. “In the last stretch of the government, the President urged to strengthen all aspects concerning management,” said Rossi.
“United for the homeland, we share a new meeting of the national Cabinet. Working for the present and the future of Argentina is the way to continue growing,” the president posted on Twitter. He transcended that all the ministers applauded Massa and Rossi, the presidential candidates of Unión por la Patria.
United for the homeland, we share a new meeting of the national Cabinet.
Working for the present and the future of Argentina is the way to continue growing ???????? pic.twitter.com/wjCZZXwK90
– Alberto Fernandez (@alferdez) June 28, 2023
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