2023-06-15 03:33:00
The governor of Chaco, Jorge Capitanichled a massive campaign rally in Sáenz Peña at the same time that thousands of people took to the streets in Resistencia to demand justice for the disappearance and alleged femicide of Cecilia Strzyzowski, the case for which two picketers from her confidence, candidates on a ballot that was going to compete next to theirs in the PASO this Sunday.
Challenging, Capitanich took smiling photos with his followers and issued a message on his social networks in which he called for defeating his opponents at the polls: “Next June 18 defines the option of voting for those we were able to do or those who are only capable of speaking and saying insults and slander all the time”.
He added that he is not going “to accept extortion or manipulation”without clarifying what he was referring to. And he predicted: “I am confident that next Sunday the electoral victory will be resounding.”
He tweeted the message when, in the middle of a cold night, thousands of torches and candles were still lit around the mast that stands in front of the main square of Resistencia. The shout of anger for the disappearance of Cecilia united a crowd rarely seen in the province. Capitanich was one of the targets of the protest over his relationship with Emerenciano Seine y Marcela Acunathe piquetero leaders detained together with César Sena, their son and partner of the victim.
The governor was best man at the wedding of Sena and Acuña. He had a very close personal and political relationship. They shared dozens of public acts. Capitanich was the main promoter of the Sena accessing the ownership of land from the national State that they had taken by force years before. That he had accepted them as candidates on a collector’s ballot (he for provincial legislator and she for mayor of Resistencia) had not surprised anyone in Chaco.
The government’s strategy was to detach itself from the allies as soon as the case gained national relevance, last Saturday. More than a week had passed since the last time Cecilia was seen alive, but the evidence accumulated in the investigation led to the arrest of the Sena clan and several of its closest collaborators. Government officials were the ones who informed the mother of the 28-year-old that they were facing a femicide, despite the fact that her body did not appear.
Capitanich accelerated the movements so that the electoral justice would cancel the ballots of the Sena. On Tuesday he made public statements and on Wednesday he spoke to reporters upon arriving at the event in Sáenz Peña.
“It is a deep pain for us, for our community and for our people. We repudiate this aberrational fact and we fight for the fact to be clarified and those responsible pay in jail with the full weight of the law, ”he said, without naming the Sena. “Today there are seven people arrested, so that the actions of the prosecutor and the assistant prosecutor are perfectly compatible with the seriousness of the act itself,” he added.
He denounced, yes, that there is a “political use” of the case: “Really I am horrified by fake news campaigns, when what we have to do is help so that the judicial investigation is elucidated. The Executive Branch has acted with absolute coherence, systematicity and commitment”.
Capitanich did not refer to the Resistencia protesters. The march had a huge impact on provincial public opinion. Cecilia’s relatives were at the forefront of the protest. Gloriahis mother, and angelathe sister, carried candles, while people shouted: “On Sunday you don’t vote.”
Cecilia’s disappearance ignited a clamor that the political leadership fears, especially the governor, who decided to focus the last stretch of the campaign in the interior of the province to avoid protests. The tragic fate of Cecilia is what has the inhabitants of the Chaco capital in suspense, which is involved in the end of the electoral campaign facing the STEP that will be carried out on Sunday. No one doubts that this case, which made a wedge in the Chaco middle class, will influence the elections. The massive assistance brings a possible confirmation to this hypothesis.
Historically, the 25 de Mayo square was used for the piquetero protests, led by Emerenciano Seinearrested with his wife Marcela Acuna and his son César, they will gain the public scene and visibility. This Wednesday night the hundreds of protesters not only They asked for clarification for the femicidebut also that they expressed their discomfort with the political links between the social movements and the governments in power.
The applause and the shouts and horns broke the silence that opened up in the night for a few minutes, as a show of respect or mourning. The purple posters repeated something that everyone affirmed: “Justice! Cecilia is missing. We are not all.”
“It has been a long time since a genuine march without political interest has been seen in Resistencia”, reflected Gloria Alférez, an employee of the center who, following closing the business where she works, walked three blocks to the square. “What happened is terrible and shows the political compromises that they want to hide so that there is justice,” said Maria Cervero, a retiree who decided to march with her 21-year-old granddaughter Alejandra.
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