Love is over. The spokeswoman of the frontology made the rupture official. “She's not answering her phone, she's not answering his calls.”
Cerruti blanked the icy distance that separates the presidential duo today. “Personal relationships are personal and policies are something else,” the spokeswoman said.
With pimpinelesque connotations the relationship of the couple who manage our destiny no longer flows.
“I'm never going to fight with Cristina. They're not going to make it,” Alberto Fernández got tired of repeating as a litany. Now it turns out she's the one who's leaving him.
Separate in fact, without co-sleeping, but under the same roof. She's cold, but she doesn't leave the house. He is quietly confined to his chambers. No carnal relations but always attentive to the goods of profit that in the lust of politics were able to accumulate.
Love is over. Only convenience remains. As in so many cases of relationship life, she pretends to be a partner in profits never in losses. Condemned to live together in power until the electorate separates them.
Lost from her role, the communicator of the Frente de Todes, reappears as a couple's therapist. He wants to lighten, but it gets dark.
“I separate personal issues from management,” he improvises. “We don't have to be friends to rule together... in fact, it's not good to be friends. What is good is to have unity once decisions are made.” It wouldn't be happening, Gabriela. Neither one nor the other.
Empowered and talkative, the official recommends that “it is healthier to discuss political issues than personal issues.” Someone has to warn them that things are starting to get complicated. If the relationship was stuck in something, it was in matters related to substantive decisions.
The public letter on which the renegade senators of the ruling party intend to base their negative vote leaves no room for any double interpretation. The differences in relation to the agreement with the IMF, a matter that is presented as central by the EP, are irreconcilable. They have to do with the preservation of symbolic capital K, but also with an absolutely opposite view of economic policy and of course also with electoral convenience.
The renegades argue that the progressive reduction of the fiscal deficit depends on the possibility of reducing subsidies and emphasize that this will mean a decrease in consumption and revenue.
“The goal of reducing inflation can never be met,” they predict. According to Christian lawmakers, reducing monetary financing, removing it from energy subsidies, freezing the real exchange rate and rising prices “will generate inflation due to increased costs.”
“I don't know what setting they're talking about. Where are the adjustments, explain to me”, asks the President, protected by the reservation given to him by the opposition vote. It is clear that the Head of State has two war fronts ahead of him.
The declared war on inflation that officially began this Friday and the guerrilla war that involves the “going underground” without abandoning the benches, salaries or funds with which Kirchnerism maintains hostilities.
It is not clear who the lieutenants the Executive counts on to fight these battles are. With the Government batched in all its layers, the Commander-in-Chief has already begun to face curious skirmishes.
The letter that the Secretary of Energy, Darío Martínez, issued on Thursday warning of the inevitable lack of gas to supply residential users and production in the event that the necessary resources are not restored, is nothing more than a foretaste of the coming hell.
Without touching the cost of politics, it is not necessary to understand that it will be the private sector that will have to absorb the cost of adjustment via tax increases (with pardon the word).
Who will be the generals who will accompany the President? What is the battle plan? Who will be responsible for accommodating the pieces on this quicksand table?
On Friday night, Alberto Fernández officially declared war on inflation without further details. After defining it as a curse, he returned to the burden with familiar slogans.
He targeted the “usual speculators”, threatened to apply the Shortages Law, and reiterated the willingness to protect the Argentinean table with price controls and audits. More of the same.
He announced the creation of a Stabilization Fund to prevent international prices from affecting the prices of our food. If we want to know what this is about, we will have to wait.
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