President Alberto Fernandez and the vice, Cristina Fernandez de KirchnerThey have a strained relationship. The sparks between the top leaders of the front of all they generated divisions among the ranks of the government that, inevitably, affect the decisions of the government and generated uncertainty in Peronism.
In public they don’t talk about their differences, what’s more, the boss of State has made an effort to convey that, beyond the fact that there are issues on which they do not agree, there are no cracks between them, something that is difficult to believe given the decisions it has made, on key issues such as agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)Crisitna.
In this context, each word, each gesture of one and the other are keys to understanding the internal in the governing coalition. This Friday, in an interview with the CNN network, the first president, head of state, committed a failed act that sowed doubts about who really has power in Argentina.
In a section of the note he spoke of the coincidences and differences he has with Cristina when making decisions: “With Cristina basically we have some differences that we always had. Nothing more. That becomes a topic of permanent journalistic debate that, for me, has more significance in journalism than in politics.”
“I told you that you had the pen, I ask you to use it,” the vice president told Alberto at the event for the 100 years of YPF. Asked about the reunion, the head of state stated: “I did not say that we do not have a relationship. I said that we do not we have the traumatic relationship that the media takes care of raising”.
“When we have to talk, we talk”, assured the president and, at that moment, the unconscious played a trick on him. “When the president…”, he said and corrected himself: “When I want to know the look of the vice president, the President sends a minister and says ‘ask the vice president what her look is.”
Alberto spoke in the framework of his participation in the closing of the IX Summit of the Americaswhich is taking place in Los Angeles, United States, where the Argentine president held bilateral meetings with his peers from Chile and Peru and will return to Argentina at night. The mistake quickly went viral on social media.