2023-06-18 18:47:43
Jorge Capitanich he is an extremely intelligent man. Anyone who has ever tried it might have checked it out. A descendant of Montenegrin immigrants, he was secretary to the Peronist governor of Chaco Danilo Baroni when he was just 22 years old. Already an accountant, he held sub-secretaries in the Ministry of Social Development and Economy in the Menem (and Cavallo) government. He did not stop accumulating titles, scholarships and master’s degrees until he jumped onto the big stage of politics in Duhalde’s provisional government, as head of the Cabinet of Ministers, a position that he was going to repeat with the Kirchners. In today’s STEP he goes in search of his fourth term as governor of the province. He is a very superficial bio, but it speaks of a man trained in the studio and, above all, in politics.
The governor’s first reaction to the scandal over the disappearance and probable death of Cecilia Strzyzowski should not be surprising. The water reaches his knees, for the moment: two of the main homicide suspects are candidates for provincial legislator and mayor on his list of the Chaco Front that is competing in the primaries. Actually they are no longer, but their names are on those ballots this Sunday.
Capitanich tried to do damage control: “A police event cannot become political”
Capitanich ordered radio silence in his government and he barely spoke of a case that shocked the country and recalls other tragedies linked to power in the north. They were occasional statements, of the type “the full weight of the law will fall on those responsible” (it is verbatim). He decided to go ahead with the electoral campaign and, unlike the opposition, on Thursday he held his closing ceremony in Resistencia. Cecilia’s family had acknowledged having received recommendations from the provincial government to tone down the complaints and demanded that the elections be postponed.
Capitanich’s way of doing politics refers to the remembered episode with the issue of Clarín in 2015, in response to an article that annoyed the government at the time regarding the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman. “This is all rubbish,” said an impetuous Capitanich during a press conference at the Casa Rosada while tearing two pages of the diary into several pieces. She never regretted that. “It was an act of anger,” she said years later.
Cecilia Strzyzowski’s mother voted in Resistencia: “Today is the angry vote”
This morning he starred in an act that is disconcerting and that is part of that background. Capitanich went to vote shortly before 8, accompanied by his daughter, at primary school No. 41. He had not yet opened the school where he was supposed to. Coming out of the darkroom, he faced the photographers with a Gardelian smile as he stuffed the envelope into the urn. The governor insisted on distancing himself from the case when he spoke to waiting journalists. “A police event cannot become a political event,” he said.
Jorge Capitanich knows very well that a police event can have a political drift out of all control. Examples abound. It is not clear then what the governor’s smile hides. If a gesture of desperation, of lack of empathy and sensitivity or of sheer cynicism. Inexplicable in an intelligent man.
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