Last Friday’s surprise meeting of the senator national Martin Lousteau, ally of the Buenos Aires head of government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, in the Capital, with the president Alberto Fernandez in the fifth of Olivos generated internal noises in Together for Change and enlivened the tensions in the opposition coalition for the different positions in front of the Government.
The owner of Pro, Patricia bullrich, and the president of the Civic Coalition, Maximiliano Ferraro, they found out from the media about the meeting between Lousteau and Fernández. Instead, the head of the UCR, Alfredo Cornejo, He received a call of the radical senator to notify him about his visit to Olivos, but when the talk with the President had already ended. The play generated internal reproaches: “It was not an organic decision. We have to act as a block.”, they argue from the hard macrismo.
In the Lousteau environment they assure that Rodríguez Larreta, head of Pro in the Capital, and other leaders of Together for Change they were aware that he was going to Olivos on Friday. And they emphasize that he did not request to meet with Fernández. Was the meeting organized by Larreta?
During his visit to the presidential residence, the reference of Evolution asked the President to postpone the debate on judicial reform, which will be discussed today in the Senate. Consider that that discussion “is not a priority” facing the economic urgencies facing the country. In addition, he told Fernández your worry due to the growing political tension between the Government and the opposition, in the midst of an unprecedented crisis due to the pandemic. “He suggested that he sees a political escalation at a time of fragility. He believes that the public debate deserves another way of interacting. In this general framework, specific issues arose,” they tell about the senator about the reserved meeting with Fernández.
In the Bullrich environment, Ferraro and Cornejo agree that Lousteau should have given advance notice to the heads of the parties that make up the main opposition coalition that he was going to have a private dialogue with Fernández. “The dialogue must be institutional and with a list of specific issues, such as a fiscal or judicial reform”, they indicated near Cornejo.
The Pro holder said today that the national board of Together for Change “did not decide” or authorize the meeting between Fernández and Lousteau. “We found out from the newspapers. I do not know if it was a conversation decided by him, in what terms and if it is within what the coalition decided as a strategy: withdraw this judicial reform and start from scratch,” said Bullrich, in dialogue with Continental Radio.
The conversation between Lousteau and the President, which was revealed yesterday by the lapoliticaonline portal, fueled tensions in Together for Change after the cross between the hard wing and the sector of dialogists for the march of 17A against the Government.
As LA NACION learned, Bullrich suspects that the meeting of the radical senator with Fernández is an attempt by the group of moderates from Together for Change, led by Larreta, Maria Eugenia Vidal and Lousteau, among others, of “gaining ground” after the political impact of the 17A opposition protest, which supported the Duros tribe. “Everything changed with the march. The blocks (who respond to Roberto Lavagna and Juan Schiaretti) spoke out against it and they were misplaced because they opposed the demonstration. Now they try to show themselves as those who manage to prevent the judicial reform from coming out,” they say in the dome of Pro.
After the 17A demonstration – and in the run-up to the debate in the Senate – Rodríguez Larreta and Vidal came out to publicly reject the judicial reform project promoted by Fernández.
In the CC, which leads Elisa Carrió, believe that Lousteau should have advised the coalition leaders that he had scheduled a meeting alone with the President to “avoid generating unnecessary noise.” They would have preferred not to find out from the media, but they clarify that they are not on the agenda of other leaders. “It is clear that Fernández does not want an institutional meeting with Together for Change,” they interpret.
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