Since the scandal broke out, Martín Insaurralde decided to seclude himself in his house in Fincas de San Vicente, in that Buenos Aires town. The only people who visit him are his mother Loreley and his older sisters Adriana and Alejandra. The former Buenos Aires Chief of Staff is isolated almost all day, he talks to very few people and his mood is on the rocks. The posting on Instagram of the photos of him with the model Sofía Clerici on a yacht in the Mediterranean Sea was a shock for his personal and public life. Even his surroundings were affected by the amount of controversy that arose around his luxurious walk along the Spanish Costa del Sol.
Contrary to what is believed, Insaurralde would not have cut off communication with Clerici, but, on the contrary, would remain in contact with her, but for more strategic than personal reasons, and this was reflected in the statement of the former Playboy cover girl in Justice, where she said that the yacht had been lent by a friend of hers and the gifts had been bought by herself. That is to say, she sought to remove Kicillof’s former chief of staff from everything linked to excessive expenses.
Privacy
Insaurralde’s private world is contained by his family and different actors appear in the environment. On the one hand, his smaller work team, with his personal assistant Hernán Morano and other collaborators. On the other hand, contacts with high places: he receives almost daily calls from Sergio Massa to find out how he is. Despite the public statements of the presidential candidate of Unión Por la Patria, in which he asked for the resignation of the former minister not only from his position, but also from his candidacy for councilor in Lomas de Zamora, in private they agreed that these criticisms would be made with “fair play”. They were necessary due to the electoral context.
Massa and Insaurralde knew how to build an almost unbreakable political alliance in the province of Buenos Aires, which can be seen reflected in the Provincial Institute of Lotteries and Casinos, where the president, Omar Galdurralde, responds to Insaurralde, while the vice president, María Laura García , is a member of the Renovador Front.
Insaurralde had ups and downs during the last few days. He tries not to watch television and asked his closest relatives not to follow the news in the media either. He even considered giving an interview, but they made him come to the wise conclusion that it was best to wait until after the elections.
Around
Both his personal friends and his political colleagues or the businessmen with whom he forged a fraternal bond agree that Insaurralde’s political career is over, that all that remains is to order his departure, but he will no longer be able to remain a public person. The consequences of the damage that Clerici did are still of an unknown magnitude. Above all because of the relevance of Insaurralde in different areas. In the government of the Province of Buenos Aires it is believed that, if Axel Kicillof manages to be re-elected, he would no longer put a trusted person from Insaurralde in the Provincial Lottery, a place that could remain in the hands of massism.
This has an important consequence among gaming entrepreneurs who will no longer have a key articulator between this industry and the State. Something similar happens with the Peronist mayors of the Buenos Aires suburbs. During the last ten years, Insaurralde managed to build leadership around this group of leaders that made it a reference. The third floor office on the stately corner of Arroyo and Suipacha, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Retiro, is well known, where Insaurralde spent most of his time when he was not in Lomas de Zamora or La Plata. Official and opposition leaders passed by there. Some would surely go to the sixth floor, where María Eugenia Vidal also has offices. The truth is that the doorman of that charming building has opened the door to Gabriel Katopodis, Jorge Macri, Néstor Grindetti, Maximiliano Abad and also to the former AFI spokesperson Hernán Nisenbaum.
Ten years ago, Insaurralde left the municipal life of Lomas to become a leader with greater projection at the hands of Cristina Kirchner herself. He went to a midterm election to compete against Massa, who had changed paths. In 2013, the leader of the Frente Renovador swept the elections, but Insaurralde’s defeat still helped him move on to play in a major league. Today, a decade later, his political career was sunk after a scandalous trip. Without a doubt, his life is no longer the same after the yacht.
