2023-12-06 19:10:57
The outgoing president Alberto Fernández said goodbye today to the Casa Rosada workers on one of his last days in office and admitted his “enormous regret” for not having been able to “resolve the problem of poverty.”
From one of the internal patios of the Government Palace, the head of state made a toast in which he gave a final short speech.
Surrounded by employees of the house and located on a small platform, he took stock of his management in which he admitted having not been able to solve “the problem of poverty,” and assured that he leaves with “the peace of mind of having put everything into it.”
“I leave with the peace of mind of having recomposed the salary of state workers, although I have enormous regret of not having been able to solve the problem of poverty,” he expressed on his last day in Casa Rosada because on Thursday he will travel to the Summit of Mercosur in Rio de Janeiro and Friday is a holiday for the day of the assumption of the Virgin.
Immediately and facing the UPCN workers gathered on one of the balconies behind a flag, he highlighted: “But the colleagues of ATE and UPCN know that we have kept the joint agreement open to correct the salaries of those who have the least.”
“I didn’t want to leave without thanking everyone. They were four very difficult years, so much so that for a long time we mightn’t share it in the hallways because the pandemic forced us to work remotely, but at all times they were there, they worked, they did what we should do for this country, which is to put it on its feet,” he began in his presentation that lasted five minutes.
Likewise, in reference to the elected president Javier Milei, he remarked: “I leave with the peace of mind that I have done everything I had to do to help, with the peace of mind that we are leaving a country functioning. Whoever succeeds me does not have to receive a country that the following year they must pay 19 billion and the next year 18 thousand like the one I had to pay.
“He does not have to receive 10 unemployment points, he receives the lowest rate in many years; the one who succeeds me is going to receive 7 thousand new public works, he is going to see that there are 140 thousand families that do not have housing problems because the State gave them, that there are 95 thousand works in the process of construction, and you will find universities in progress and improved,” he highlighted.
Along the same lines, I continue: “A public health that I found closed and decimated with measles turning around, will find it fully functioning; one more satellite in orbit; the one who succeeds me will find that if Covid reappears it will no longer be having to run to see who sells him the vaccine because Argentine scientists made it for him.
In another passage of the speech he highlighted the work of each public employee whom he considered “so unfairly mistreated” and stated: “I thank them because they were the column that kept the State going. One can give orders, but if there is no one execute is very difficult.
“I leave with the peace of mind of never having made a decision once morest those who have less,” stressed Alberto Fernández under the watchful eye of the presidential spokesperson, Gabriela Cerruti; and the secretaries Julio Vitobello (of the presidency) and Mercedes Marcó del Pont (Strategic Affairs).
With a glass of Sidra del Valle in hand, he said: “I’m leaving through the same door I entered, with the same car I entered with, and I’m going to the same house where I left.”
“I hope to always see you, to be able to look you in the eyes because we know that we work for people. Here’s to everyone’s happiness and to the future being better. As skinny (Luis Alberto) Spinetta says in ‘Cantata de Puentes Amarillos’: ” Don’t make me say that everything in the past is worse, tomorrow will be better,'” he concluded.
At the end, he took photos with employees and got into an altercation with two radio operators, who approached him to ask questions regarding the president’s involvement, and following refusing, he struggled to move forward at their insistence.
“I gave like 40 interviews, brother,” he replied, exasperated at the complaint of one of the journalists while the workers gathered to take pictures with him and ask for their regards.
Italy and Spain: the future of Alberto Fernández
For a few days now, Alberto Fernández has almost resolved the move from the Olivos villa to the apartment located in Puerto Madero of his personal friend and former Media Secretary, Enrique “Pepe” Albistur. Already more than 600 of his books are there as the bulk of his belongings, and he is ready to leave the presidential residence.
Although his partner, Fabiola Yáñez, and his son, Francisco, have already been in Madrid since Friday, December 1, the head of state will not travel to Spain immediately.
According to Noticias Argentinas, on the 18th he will visit Turin, Italy, where he will be a speaker at a talk on climate change, invited by the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, and his Italian counterpart, Sergio Mattarella. One of the topics to be addressed will be climate change.
There he will try to coordinate agendas with Pope Francis to finalize the meeting that he had to postpone a few days ago.
Then, he will fly to Spain with his dog Dylan, where he will live with his family, although he rules out settling in the old continent by clarifying that he will come to Argentina often.
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