In a meeting designed to show party unity, Vice President Cristina Kirchner decided to redouble the bet in his confrontation with the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodriguez Larretay raised the need to “rethink” the autonomy of the City of Buenos Aires.
“We should rethink the jurisdictional operation, how jurisdiction should be exercised and what is the role of the federal government in a city like this, because the Constitution does not speak of autonomy, it speaks of a statute being issued, and because this city is the capital of all Argentines”said the vice president in the most forceful section of the speech she gave this Tuesday before a hundred legislators from the Front of All who met this followingnoon in the Blue Room of Congress.
The autonomy of Buenos Aires was recognized in the Constitutional reform of 1994, but it was a norm sanctioned in 1995, the so-called Coffee Law, which regulated the scope of the local government and the preservation of the interests of the Nation in its territory. In that rule, it was established that the Federal Capital would be governed by a Statute.
Thus, the vice president once more charged once morest the head of the Buenos Aires government and his decision to fence the area around the corner of Juncal and Uruguay, in the Recoleta neighborhood, where Cristina Kirchner lives and who was scene of the confrontation between the City Police and Kirchnerist militants on Saturday followingnoon.
Cristina Kirchner’s words surprised the more than one hundred pro-government legislators who in a partisan unity gesture and support for what they consider the attacks of a justice dominated by macrismo that tries to outlaw and persecute Peronism, met this followingnoon with Cristina Kirchner in the Blue Room of Congress amid the political tension generated by the incidents of the weekend.
The meeting lasted regarding an hour and concluded with the words of Cristina Kirchner, who in a speech lasting just over 20 minutes once once more emphasized the fact that the legal accusations that target her, such as that of prosecutor Diego Luciani in the Vialidad case, its purpose is to persecute Peronism and the social leaders who defend the popular sectors.
The vice president also launched evenings criticism of the president of Pro, Patricia Bullrichwho was one of the opposition leaders who most forcefully questioned the actions of Cristina Kirchner and her militants, even criticizing Rodríguez Larreta for having decided to lift the security operation he had set up in the area.
“When one sees the protagonists of what happened last Saturday, it is that one finds the same and almost the same protagonists of what happened in 2001”, said Cristina Kirchner at the beginning of her speech, before recalling that “the that we saw all weekend, that dispute of believing that the dispute is tightening, was the same that led a president in 2001 to sign a decree of State of siege, “he added. Bullrich said tonight on LN+ that he left that government a month and a half before De la Rúa resigned.
In this sense, the vice president alluded more directly when recalling that in the government of De la Rua there was “a group that had the name of a food, Sushi, which was made up of the children of the former president, of a minister who is now the president of the Pro; Well, it was the one that prompted him to sign that decree of necessity and urgency so that he would show signs of authority and not remain a coward, ”he added.
Cristina Kirchner occupied the center of the scene from a table where she was supported by the president of the Lower House, Cecilia Moreau (Buenos Aires), the head of the bench of deputies of the Front of All, German Martinez (Santa Fe), and the leadership of the official Senate interblock, Jose Mayans (Formosa), and Anabel Fernández Sagasti (Mendoza).
“Cristina made a story regarding the advance of the judicial party and said what is sought is to ban her, the Justicialist Party and that its purpose is to instruct the candidates of the national and popular field”, summarized Paula Penaca (Buenos Aires), secretary of the block of the Front of All of the Lower House, the words with which Cristinas Kirchner closed the meeting.
According to official parliamentary sources, the meeting was organized at the request of the bench of deputies of the ruling party, which intended to offer him his backing and support in person; later it was decided to extend the call to senators. Starting at five in the followingnoon, senators and deputies began to arrive at the Blue Room, and the meeting began half an hour later, when the vice president made her entrance to the room that is located under the dome of the Palace of Congress. By 6:30 p.m. the match was over.
“It was an important meeting where support was expressed for his figure and the situation he is experiencing with a justice that we believe is not impartial at all and for the events that were recorded in his house,” said the senator at the end of the meeting. paul yedlin (Tucuman). “It was assessed that, at least for us and until the defenses speak, the evidence presented does not add up to a conviction,” added the legislator.
In the same line of unconditional support, the Mayans manifested themselves. “Today we gave explicit support to the vice president; there are causes that take an impressive speed and there are others that fall resoundingly”, he highlighted in dialogue with accredited journalists, before adding that “the process is all a lie”, in relation to the accusation of illicit association promoted by the prosecutor Luciani. “It cannot be said that this is a justice with prestige and independent representation”added the head of the ruling interbloc of the upper house.
