Alberto Fernández
He stayed late Friday in his office at the Olivos residence, with his trusted collaborators,
reviewing the repercussions of the ad
what had he done that afternoon
about the ornate insulation.
The President agreed, witnesses to that meeting count, and is convinced that the greatest challenge of the new stage is to achieve the accompaniment of the people to official measures.
After weeks in which the Government was willing to diversify the agenda, the social compliance of the quarantine returned to occupy an exclusive place in Fernández’s priorities. Only a successful management of
the coronavirus pandemic,
They say close to the President, it will provide the necessary political strength to revive the economy. Health, they explain, became a condition of possibility for politics and the economy.
“People are fed up, I get it. But
I do not have any other option.
Now we all feel the bullets sting us close. It is no longer, as some believed, just a problem of the villas. We did what we should objectively do.
Axel [Kicillof] and Horacio [Rodríguez Larreta] they noticed the same as me, “said Fernández,
in his office in Olivos, aware that social humor is a factor that should be approached in company.
“The challenge is not to lose the social leadership of the pandemic,” said one of the officials closest to the President, and maintained that, for that, Fernández must remain, as until now, at the center of the fight against the disease, not remove the body. In this scheme, he argued, the settlement of the external debt appears as a “structural” issue that, once the emergency is over, can determine the fate of this government.
“We have to make people aware, as they did during the first days of the quarantine. If the infections rose, it is because we all relaxed. We have to generate a reaction,” another official told LA NACION, with unrestricted access to Olivos. . At the presidential residence they made a favorable evaluation of the announcements on Friday, especially the image of political harmony that Fernández, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Axel Kicillof transmitted.
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“The relationship with Larreta is very good.
In the City they are as concerned as we are. The population of older adults in the Capital is much larger than that of the province. Even with fewer infections they can have a much stronger impact on the number of deaths, “said an official who works daily with Fernández.
The difficult situation of merchants in the metropolitan area was part of the analysis made by the President on Friday night. “40% of the businesses enabled to open did not do so, and those that opened did not sell or 30% of what they sold before all this,” Fernández insisted, in response to demands for the activity to be authorized. commercial.
The Government does not have an additional measure under analysis for this sector, one of the hardest hit by the crisis. “We invested 3% of GDP in the aid package, it is a huge effort,” said the President, before his collaborators, and relativized the data that affirms that Brazil has invested twice that figure. He was accompanied until after 10 pm by the Secretary General of the Presidency, Julio Vitobello; the Secretary of Communication, Juan Pablo Biondi, and the deputy Eduardo Valdés, a kind of “presidential amulet”, present in the moments before the announcements of the extension of quarantine.
On Saturday morning, the President received a survey from the Analía Del Franco consultancy, which indicates that the tightening of the quarantine has broad support among the inhabitants of the metropolitan area. According to that study, which the Government was in charge of disseminating, 76.9% agreed with the measures. A similar percentage, 78%, answered that they believed in the reasons given by Fernández and 78.8% agreed that the measures taken in Argentina avoided a situation such as that experienced by Brazil or Chile.
Those around the President note that, unlike what happened during the strict quarantine carried out in late March and early April, the government now has less leeway to impose restrictions and is more dependent on persuasiveness. Without the possibility of resorting to a heavy hand, he is obliged to appeal to individual responsibility, as the only effective tool to guarantee compliance with the new measures.
“We are going to reinforce the controls, with police saturation in some places. But if a merchant opens his premises without permission, we cannot fall with three patrolmen. We know that they are having a bad time. As we understand them, we will try to talk to them, be with them and convince them that the best thing for everyone’s health is to respect these two weeks of isolation, “an official working in the security operation told LA NACION.
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