The head of Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodriguez Larretaled a meeting virtually from Villa la Angostura to analyze the new chat leak of the Minister of Security, Marcelo D’Alessandro.
According to official sources anticipated infobaeamong the officials who were summoned to the meeting were Philip Michael -Chief of Cabinet- and the secretaries and members of the decision-making table of Rodríguez Larreta, Fernando Straface Y Federico di Benedetto. They also connected to the zoom Silvia Lospennato -recently joined the team-, Diego Santilli Y Christian Coelho.
D’Alessandro did not participate in the match and is working on his defense with his team. The official assures that he is the victim of an intelligence operation and that the dialogues that would have leaked from his cell phone are false. In addition, he is considering filing criminal complaints against the Kirchner leaders who accused him.
Although the officials who were on the zoom assure in a low voice that they support the minister, a waiting compass was opened to define his future in management. Rodríguez Larreta asked D’Alessandro to give public explanations about the scandal. The person in charge of Buenos Aires security says that he has documents to show how a “campaign” was designed against him and he has scheduled television interviews to show them.
Although in the Larretista environment they agree that it would be risky to “throw a minister out of the window for an illegal espionage operation at the beginning of an electoral year”, They still do not rule out that in the next 24 hours there will be news about the future of the official. In fact, it is striking that there has yet to be any public statement or social media post to back it up.
In the leaks known yesterday, there are conversations with different people, among them Silvio Robles, spokesman for the president of the Court, Horacio Rossati, with Silvia Majdalani, former number two of the AFI, and with Marcelo Violante, head of Dakota, a company of haulage contracted by the City of Buenos Aires.
Regarding the content of the new chats that D’Alessandro maintains with Robles, and which date from last November, Rosatti’s spokesman gives him arguments for the conflict that Juntos por el Cambio maintains with the Frente de Todos over the integration of the Judicial Council.
In addition, Rosatti’s spokesperson and D’Alessandro refer to the “Robles ruling”. This is how the interlocutors would have baptized the ruling of the Court that would be known later -on December 21- and that would end up tipping the balance in favor of the city of Buenos Aires in the dispute with the Casa Rosada for the co-participation.
As for the dialogues between D’Alessandro and Violante, the businessman who manages Dakota, the concessionaire of the cranes and the parking lots of Buenos Airesthese are exchanges produced in 2019 and 2020.
Among other things, Violante asks the Buenos Aires minister if he “gives to propose business to Horacio”, in supposed reference to Rodríguez Larreta. Faced with the question D’Alessandro answers in the affirmative.. In another chat, the Dakota businessman talks about “gather green” and alleged envelopes with money.
This Friday another page appeared where fragments of the same dialogues appear with some variations that could give another context to the conversations. For example, when referring to “business with Horacio” a G appears next to the name, implying that it would refer to someone other than the head of government.
On the other hand, there are also exchanges of messages between D’Alessandro and Majdalani, former deputy director of the Federal Intelligence Agency, coordinating different actions. Among other things, Majdalani, which she calls “pendex” to the Buenos Aires minister, he suggests “Do not put the little body when the bullets pass.”
The spread of D’Alessandro’s chats caused strong criticism of the ruling party. The Minister of Justice and Human Rights, martin soriawrote a message of repudiation on their social networks.
“The chats between D’Alessandro -Minister of Security of Larreta- and Silvio Robles -right hand of the “supreme” Rosatti-, confirm what we always denounce: this Supreme Court stopped doing Justice to do political favors to JxC through its failures,” Soria wrote.
And he added: “They force the provinces to finance Larreta’s campaign, they guarantee the persecution of Peronism, they paralyzed the Council of the Magistracy to shield judges placed by hand and they concocted with JxC the blockade of the National Congress. Macri’s CSJN is not compatible with Democracy”.
The official legislators also launched harsh questions. In a statement titled “Institutional chaos has a first and last name: Horacio Rosatti”the interblock of senators from the Frente de Todos spoke of “pernicious links” and “settling of failures between Silvio Robles, spokesman and general director of Horacio Rosatti’s committee” and D’Alessandro.
“We are facing absolute evidence that this institutional chaos to which the institutions of our country have been subjected in recent times has a name and surname: Horacio Rosatti,” the pro-government senators considered.
Along these lines, they warned that “in the same talk (between D’Alessandro and Robles) not only is the bond of absolute trust and familiarity evident, but also names the ruling that would come out a few days later as “the ruling Robles” in favor of the head of the city of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta.
For their part, the deputies of the Frente de Todos also expressed themselves in a statement of a similar tone, entitled “D’Alessandro is Larreta, Robles is Rosatti”. There they stated that “The new chats reveal a mafia and criminal network”while qualifying as “scandalous” the content of the messages.
Finally, the Frente de Todos Bloc in the Buenos Aires Legislature maintained that Rodríguez Larreta should remove D’Alessandro from his post. “Beyond the corresponding judicial actions for the crimes that arise from the chats that have become public, it is absolutely impossible for him to continue in his position, nothing more and nothing less than at the head of the Justice and Security of our City , who has lost all authority in front of the citizenry”, they assured.
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