The party of first lady birthday, Fabiola Yañez, gave a surplus. She had an organization cost, which was surely paid with money from the treasury and collected at least three million pesos to repair the damage. Trading for the Treasury.
However, and despite this controversial arrangement, that forbidden bacchanal on a night of strict quarantine took with it a precious and necessary good to govern: he demolished the word and the presidential authority.
Alberto Fernández will be able to get a loan or ask one of his friends who always come to power for money to pay. The couple has ten business days to get the check to court and end a nightmare. But, As a lawyer and professor of criminal law, he knows perfectly well that no matter how many lenders he has, he will never be able to buy the credibility that he stained with indelible ink.
The unfortunate sequence that has occurred since the President’s forbidden nights were known in that opaque winter of 2020 was a demonstration of contempt for the institution. So devastating is the path that it traveled that it is possible to approach the matter from the political, legal, moral and even philosophical point of view. Fernández managed to ease the legal mess, but he knows by heart that he will pay the bill for the other blunders that it is impossible to solve with money.
The first component to be demolished is the truth. And here it is worth pausing for a minute on the role of the press and that of the President.
When the income to the Quinta de Olivos was known, the head of state did not accept that the birthday had existed. A short time later, he recognized that he had been passing by; later, he blamed his partner and, finally, he admitted it to the point of paying to compensate for the damage.
In the middle there was an attempt to place a lie as an official explanation. It was the journalist Guadalupe Vázquez, when she published her photo on LN +, that provoked Fernández’s recognition. To stop at this sequence is to imagine the President’s men imposing the lie as an explanation.
Thanks to the role of the press –and not officials– the only truth in all this nonsense was consolidated. They are the journalists who never tire of banging on closed doors; to walk through the dark corridors where much of politics works and to endure the defamation and aggressions that underpinned the ammunition of truth. The President and his people, on the other sidewalk, bet on the lie.
Richard of the Boat He is a professor and Doctor of Law at the University of Córdoba. A reflection was allowed, regarding Olivos’s birthday. “With the lie, the President loses his role of guaranteeing coexistence and ordering it to achieve the common good.“, He says. He then appeals to an ancient distinction the Romans made between power y authority
The first refers to socially recognized power, that is, having a formal position to enforce its decision. The second arises from authority, from the moral recognition of the powerful by fellow citizens. “The President, has or pretends to have power –power– but lacks authority -moral authority-. The lie strips power of authority and this is the most serious thing that happens to us”, says Del Barco.
Then the legal reflections might come. Here too there are several places from which to start the analysis. The first is whether this type of solution is applied to crimes of abstract danger such as those that do not have a particular victim. In this case, the protected legal right is public health. The Justice said yes, it applies. It only remains to see what happens with this antecedent in other cases such as the causes of possession of weapons or drugs, which are also of abstract danger and might have similar solutions.
The other is to assess whether the party, paid for by the Treasury, is an event reserved for the sphere of private life. But it’s clear They are small discussions following seeing that the lie was bet on and the truth and the presidential word were demolished.
