–You put this together Gerardo Morales snapped at Mauricio Macri face to face.
“This” was the version that the appointments in the Judicial Council of a radical and a Kirchnerist had actually been the result of a negotiation between Morales and Sergio Massa. Morales went to the meeting of the national table of Together for Change to give an extensive explanation and did not keep his suspicions that the former president was behind the operetta. Macri tried to disarm the accusation:
–Gerardo… That I put together this, that I put together that. You give me more power than when I was president! – The exmandatario replied.
The meeting, in which Patricia Bullrich surprisingly defended Morales, concluded with a statement in which they denied that this negotiation had existed and said that they suffered “a major operation” by the media that published that version. Furthermore, after extensive internal discussion, The statement directly targeted Javier Milei, whom they accused of “trying to break our unity.”. Those who sought to keep him out of an alliance scored a victory.
The version that Morales had negotiated places on the Judicial Council with Sergio Massa was published in Clarion and argued that the appointment of Roxana Reyes in Deputies, while the Senate sent the Kirchnerist Martín Doñate, it was part of a negotiation in which the governor of Jujuy also compromised the votes to approve a new law for the Judicial Council. This version was also replicated by the newspaper The nationon which Macri denies having any type of property, but which would later be the reason for Morales’s reproaches.
deny everything
Furious, Morales came out to deny everything. “It is a total lie. Under no point of view did I negotiate, nor did radicalism negotiate any situation that has to do with the Judicial Council. For me, here is an operation of Kirchnerism itself and of some sectors of Together for Change, I say extremes, because I do not want to name names, that they are looking for an agreement with Milei and that JxC breaks “. The name that Morales did not give was said in private: it begins with M and ends with Auricio Macri.
Morales called the presidents of the other parties one by one to explain that the conversation he had with Massa was to tell him to name the one who, according to them, was the deputy. The only one he did not call was Macri.
He also said it publicly: “What I did, when Mario Negri warned me about the crude move of Kirchnerism, before they split the block (also in Deputies), I obviously call Sergio Massa and demand that he comply with the Constitution and the Court’s ruling. And when they leave the bloc, I call him again to demand that they comply with the Deputies and to tell him that we are against the maneuver concocted in the Senate,” Morales said. That is to say, according to the governor of Jujuy, he had two calls -at least- with Massa to prevent them from dividing the block in Deputies as was done in the Senate and not appointing Reyes.
Morales went to the meeting of the national table of Together for Change, which was held at the Hannah Arendt Institute, to explain those calls to Massa. He spoke at length, without being interrupted. Even against what happened other times, Patricia Bullrich defended him. And, contrary to what some in his party had recommended, he did not keep quiet about his suspicions that Macri had been the one behind the versions. Macri denied even having the ability to organize journalistic operations and said that he did not believe in those versions.
–I believe you, Gerard. But do you know what happens? If you are close to Massa all the time, if you walk with Massa, if you sleep with Massa, these things happen Macri told him, in a paternalistic tone.
“I don’t trust Massa anymore,” Morales replied.
The discussion was settled with a statement from Together for Change that followed what Morales raised. “We have suffered a major operation trying to involve the governor of Jujuy and President of the UCR, Gerardo Morales, in a negotiation with the government for the positions of the Judicial Council. We strongly deny this false information. and we insist that the position of the minority in the Senate corresponds to Together for Change, Senator Luis Juez”, they affirmed. “In addition, we consider that this level of lying undermines the democratic values of defending the truth.”, they remarked, without pointing out those responsible. They also opposed any expansion of the Supreme Court.
Milei or no Milei
At the same meeting, a debate was held again that crosses Together for Change: what to do with Javier Milei. Macri and Bullrich are in favor of adding it while both María Eugenia Vidal and Gerardo Morales spoke publicly against it. And Horacio Rodríguez Larreta instructed his officials and spokesmen to demolish it at every possible opportunity. The discussion took place again at the table on Wednesday, following a new series of aggressive statements by Milei towards Together for Change. And those who oppose adding it advanced in closing the door forever.
The aladdid of Avanza Libertad had said about Elisa Carrió: “He is part of the caste, someone who never worked, has his CUIL undefeated and he has not been able to build anything in his political career.” “I would like to have a talk with Macri, about being with the radicals, with the Civic Coalition and lukewarm popcorn, which are part of the failure. Those would have to be with Kirchnerism. If the hawks broke, I would welcome them with open arms,” said Milei. Yesterday he added criticism on Twitter: “They locked us up for a year and a half with the support of Larreta and radical governors. They voted together in Congress. We could never go to a space that has been co-responsible for the failure“.
The first to respond was the president of the Civic Coalition, Maximiliano Ferraro: “Mr. Milei, as much as you want to do the dirty and functional work for Cristina Kirchner, we are not going to allow her to break up Together for Change and prevent a republican alternation in Argentina”. Morales joined him, who said that “90 percent of the leadership of my party does not agree with the incorporation of Milei. Milei ends up being functional to Cristina. She is an emergent from the failure of politics. .
All this decided at the meeting of the national table and ended in a statement in which they stated: “Milei is not part of JxC and tries to break our unity by being functional to the ruling party. We are change without anarchy.” It was a defeat for those who wanted the alliance with Milei.