Victoria Villarruel I had been knowing anything about Santiago Caputo. The vice president and the strategist cut all kinds of dialogue since the conflict between her and the iron triangle became irreversible. At this time, the vice only communicates with the chief of Cabinet, Guillermo Francos – the most dialoguistic in power – and with Martín MenemPresident of the Chamber of Deputies, with whom he barely shares minimal organizations on the future of sessions in each body. Cold and logistics conversations. But yesterday, before the beginning of the session in the Senate where the government would unanimously lose all its battles, Caputo sent him a WhatsApp audio that she opened curious. He listened to the voice of the advisor that from the pink asked him not to enable the session. Don’t do it. Villarruel put him on the speaker who accompanied her in her office. He decided not to answer and sent the message to the government through Francos that it would try to help the ruling party demanding that the projects without opinion that would be treated in the enclosure were approved only if they had two thirds of the votes of those present. The rest was in sight. He opened the session when there was quorum, and thus started an afternoon where A conflict of non -calculable dimensions expanded with an uncertain end: The senators who were on their benches, unanimously, approved the retirement correction, the moratorium, the law of updating the contributions for disability and gave half a sanction to the projects that the governors sent last week to change the distribution of ATN and the distribution of fuel tax funds to their territories.
The administration of events in the Senate was lived with a revealing disorder. Alfredo Cornejo, from Mendoza, Rogelio Frigerio, of Entre Ríos, and Nacho Torres de Chubut, are part of the leaders who launched a line towards La Rosada before the beginning of the session to try to appease the tension. The problem is that the homework was distributed: one spoke with Franks, the other with Lule Menem and another with Carlos Guberman, the Secretary of the Treasury. And each one received a different message: “Stay and vote against,” Lule proposed, while Franks ordered that they don’t feel and govern another message. “So much dispersion from La Rosada allowed the governors to self -perceive dizzy,” a professional walker of the Senate laughed yesterday.
Tweet war
“Traitor,” Milei said about Villarruel in his speech in the Stock Exchange. It is an ineffective fight, a scatter of rapits to the sun that is hard to believe that it can benefit any of the parties and probably only consolidates the indifference with which society is treating the political class. When we ask Juan Germanomy in TN, what do people do when they see the fights of the caste, his response was overwhelming: “It is not, he does not listen to them, nor see them.” The tweet of the Vice will remain for the story of the Vice to Patricia Bullrich where -in response to another tweet from the minister where she accused her of an accomplice of Kirchnerism-, Villarruel reminded her of her Montonero past and displayed the rules of the Republic against the pink. Crazy things happen: José Mayans, president of the PJ block, defended Villarruel a while ago, who absolutely no interest in common unites it. Everything looks very unprolition.
The president promised to veto the laws that were approved in the Senate, such as retirement, the emergency in disability, and the reactivation of the pension moratorium. (Photo: AFP/Oscar del Pozo).
Meanwhile in La Rosada a vertiginous operation commissioned by the Secretariat of Legal and Technical, María Ibarzabal, was activated since yesterday to find a tool to the judicialization of the session. They know it is difficult but they will try anyway. It is a way of reacting. The following path was announced a thousand times: the veto of the laws approved in the Senate. The problem is that this time the mathematics of the votes does not guarantee success in deputies to sustain a veto. Interestingly they could be in the hands of Mauricio Macri. If the Buenos Aires agreement with the PRO can trigger the will to, for example Vidal or the Penatto – which gave a half sanction to the retirement projects – and make them change now, it is an option that probably only depends on the decision of the President of the PRO. With the radicals to the government it was very complicated.
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It is not only the equation of the fiscal account that broke yesterday but above all, the mathematics of politics with the alliances that the ruling party had built with mechanisms that were deteriorating in recent months, a threat that Caputo saw a long time ago and for which the intern was intensified with the representatives of Karina at the political table. In clearer words, it could be said that yesterday is a prophecy fulfilled within power. More than fulfilled, self -managed, according to the opinion of the Caputo environment.
Its reasoning follows this logic: if there is no economic rest to improve the distribution of items to the provinces, compensation should be with the electoral policy in high season closing season and agreements. They are discussions that led the situation to which Caputo abandon the political small table, at least for now. In the next nine days the candidates will be defined in the eight electoral sections of the province of Buenos Aires: that list will be a revelation on the gear of power. About winners and losers.
The power plane
The episode of the Senate happened in the final stretch of a week where the government remained defensive since Monday with the revelation in TN on the opinion of prosecutors who investigate irregularities in the controls to the plane of the businessman Leonardo Scatturice on a flight that arrived in the country on February 26 and remained in transit until March 5 at 8:30 p.m. Scatturize, it is known, is a fundamental piece in the link between the president and Trump but especially between the Government and the CPAC (the Center for Conservative Political Action). When Carlos Pagni revealed in March that they could have lacked effective controls on that flight, Manuel Adorni replied by a press conference ensuring that this was impossible, that there were only five suitcases and that the only passenger of the flight, Laura Arrieta, corporate director of OPC -the scatturice company -, just lowered a Carry on the Bombardier that brought her from Miami.
Prosecutors saw something else and thus marked it in the opinion that included a large package of measures that Judge Pablo Yadarola is carrying out. It is true that the cases have nothing in common but it is a colorful coincidence that the history of this plane is being investigated by the same court and the same prosecution that were in charge of the arrival of Antonini Wilson with their suitcase full of dollars.
The arrival of customs staff. (Photo: TN).
The list of inconsistencies revealed in the opinion is extensive:
- Why did they declare an airport of origin but left another?
- Why did they put Miami destination and went to Paris?
- Why did the ANAC never record the arrival of that plane to the country?
- Why nobody in customs prevented the plane if it remained in transit in a Hangar in Royal Class with two suitcases inside?
- Why did the Federal Police send flashing videos on the interior of the hangar while the ship was there?
Why does the PSA officer who intervened in the controls claims to have seen that Arrieta passed a call to Cintia Cali, a customs delegate that went to the plane to receive it and that, with the cell phone in the ear, Cali replied “OK” is not known who?
With the passing of the days, the story becomes more intriguing: why did the company issue a statement saying that in addition to the two crew and the passenger, There was an on -board assistant? Coincidentally, hours later, Juan Pazo, head of Arca, in charge of Customs, went out to defend the operation of his body and repeated that there were four. Luckily the company later corrected and recalled that there was no assistant on board. Pazo said nothing more on the subject.
There is another curious fact: one of the arguments of the government is that the cause is the product of a self -denouncing of customs. In rigor, it was a summary report that was processed in Capital – where Aeroparque is – and for reasons that are unknown to stop the Customs Customs, where They gave notice to the Yadarola court. Why does Campana intervene about a capital act? The head of the agency is Andrés Veliz and right in April, a month later, that section intervened. They say in the economic criminal jurisdiction that is happening very often that the origin of geographically disparate complaints of customs come from bell. Intrigue.
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Today, Adorni, who had not returned on the subject, considered the matter closed because the pilot, Juan Pablo Pinto, appeared to expand his testimonial statement and showed purchases on the Internet identifying his packages. It is rare what would have to do with the background that is, whether or not they did a safe -conduct to the members of that flight, to go out without spending their things through the scanner. Adorni, even more striking, now says: “It is a private issue”Rare, because even the president gave explanations this week.
Judge Yadarola awaits an essential report from the United States. As it was a private jet and was exiting the country, they want them to inform you what kind of controls were done before taking off. These data are transcendental to know if at least there were fixed what was inside the packages and suitcases. The consultation has already been sent. The answer comes.