A dip in the sea. Rodríguez Larreta on the coast / pro press
The PRO inmate resurfaced again with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta’s decision to validate Minister Marcelo D’Alessandro’s (Security) license request, as a way to “organize” his defense against the battery of complaints from the ruling party for the alleged implications judicial proceedings of the chats illegally extracted from his cell phone, which would expose “inconvenient” conversations with a collaborator of Judge Horacio Rosatti and with a businessman from the CABA towing service.
The new scandal that triggered the dissemination of the official’s conversations found the mayor of Buenos Aires on his break from Cumelén, in Villa La Angostura, where he had contact with Mauricio Macri. In the PRO, however, there is a coincidence that it is all about a “Kirchnerism operation” to delegitimize the Security graduate and that, in any case, the chats “could not have any type of repercussion in the Justice for having been obtained illegally” and, apparently, point from the PRO, also adulterated.
keep him in office
But the differences arose because several swords of the “yellow party”, such as the presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich, considered that the mayor of Buenos Aires should have defended D’Alessandro more vigorously and, at the same time, kept him in office so as not to give entity to a maneuver that they attribute to “spies” or “unemployed labor” that, in the end, would serve the interests of the ruling party. Yesterday the leader of the PRO, who remains “on vacation” until January 18, attributed the chat leaks to “an illegal and highly sophisticated parastatal intelligence apparatus.”
Elisa Carrió is of the same opinion, who maintains a good relationship with D’Alessandro, whom she considers a “valuable leader” victim of a supposed “military table of the AFI” in which General César Milani would be involved, who knew how to set up a intelligence office when he directed the Army during the presidency of Cristina Kirchner.
In his public reappearance on Wednesday afternoon as part of the inauguration of a summer school in downtown Buenos Aires, Larreta supported D’Alessandro and agreed that he was the object of a “mafia” maneuver that he linked to Kirchnerism. The truth is that before there was a strong internal debate at the government headquarters on Uspallata street with the aim of analyzing how to navigate the political crisis unleashed by the dissemination of the alleged conversations of the licensed minister. The general secretary, Fernando Straface, for instance, was one of those who supported the official without any “type of speculation.” But they all agreed that D’Alessandro had to “go out and defend himself” and to complete this strategy “the best thing was for him to take a license.”
However, there were voices that assured that Larreta should support the official more strongly and not promote an “intermediate solution” that gives substance to the onslaught of Kirchnerism. The announced license, however, would last about three months and that, meanwhile, the Security area will be absorbed by the chief of staff, Felipe Miguel.
sweeping silence
In the radicalismo they did not come out to comment on the scandal but they did question the ruling party for its attack against the head of the Court, Rosatti. “There is nothing to say, ultimately that Justice investigates,” said a source from the UCR.
However, the head of the party, Gerardo Morales, received a public reproach from former radical senator Mario Cimadevilla – who resigned from his position in the AMIA Special Unit during the Cambiemos administration criticizing the Executive – who demanded from the National Committee a gesture of “disapproval” for the appearance of the chats that would expose a collusion between “judicial officials and politicians”.
This Monday, leaders of the centenary party will meet in Mar del Plata, summoned by the governor of Jujuy, to try to draw up a road map that allows for a consensus on a common strategy to face the electoral discussion within Together for Change. For now, the government’s onslaught against the judiciary seems to silence some criticism of the implications of D’Alessandro’s talks. Morales, in fact, could participate in a “pre-campaign walk” with Larreta that would take place this weekend along the Atlantic Coast.
