the brothers and sisters in political life they are a phenomenon that crosses all times and spaces. It can be analyzed by party, because they are in Peronism, in radicalism and in the PROand it can also be measured in time, because there were in the Menemism, Kirchnerism, Macrismo and also today during the years of Alberto Fernandez.
The most current case that was known was the hiring of Georgina Losada on behalf of her sister, Senator Carolina Losada. Georgina works as her sister’s office manager at the High camera.
The episode was leaked from some statements made by the senator for the hiring of 100 people in the Senate at which he called Kirchnerist militants. “This is also a way of stealing from the people, enlarging the state, incorporating people who are really their militants, because since the Kirchnerist militants have to be rented, they try to accommodate them somewhere,” he had stated in CNN Radio. From Kirchnerism they reacted with the speed of light and leaked that she had hired her sister. The newspaper Perfil contacted the senator and her explanation was this: “My sister has been the head of the office since day zero, she came with me and she leaves with me because the appointment is on a temporary basis.”
A rule that is usually followed in these cases is that the older brother, with more popularity and greater militancy, leads the younger by the hand, but in the case of Las Losada, Georgina She is the one with the greatest militancy and the one who pushed her sister to jump into politics.
Another similar case within radicalism is that of the brothers Facundo and Gaston Manes. The deputy and neurologist is the one who is going ahead with his candidacy for 2023, while his younger brother is the one who built the links within the UCR from his militancy in high school and then in the university. An anecdote that they often repeat is that, when they were both in high school, Gaston convinced Facundo to present himself as a candidate for the presidency of the Student Center of the college in Salto. Gastón outlined the campaign and the candidate was Facundo. Thus they came to lead the secondary for a year.
More cases. In the PRO, the most famous example is that of the head of the Buenos Aires Government Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and his younger brother Augustowho between 2012 and 2015 was undersecretary of the Buenos Aires Government, an area that depended on the Ministry of Government, which in those years was in charge of Emilio Monzo. August He was always linked to politics. He was a spokesman for Roque Fernández, the successor of Sunday Horse and last minister of Economy of Carlos Menem, between 1996 and 1997. He then moved to the private sector in charge of institutional relations for Eduardo Elsztain’s company Irsa. Today he collaborates in the presidential project of his brother Horacio. He is in politics, but today without charge.
In Peronism there are historical cases and some current ones. The head of the AFI, Agustín Rossi, has his brother Alejandro, alias “Fratacho”, who was a national deputy between 2007 and 2011, and also served as Secretary of Security and also of Justice. In each electoral shift in recent years, he wanted to be mayor of the city of Santa Fe and is also working to run next year. The questions he received during his years as a politician have to do with his foray into the transportation business and his meteoric rise in the field.
Those who are also brothers, even if there is no blood involved, are Eduardo “Wado” De Pedro, the Minister of the Interior, and Juan Ignacio and Gerónimo Ustarrozwho grew up next to him and served at his side in La Cámpora. “Wado” and the Ustarroz they are foster brothers because the first is the son of disappeared persons and was raised by the family of the other two. Today Juan Ignacio is mayor of the city of Mercedes and Geronimo is the representative of the Executive Power in the Council of the Judiciary and an influential interlocutor with Justice. He is not always successful, but in the different jurisdictions they know that, when he knocks on the door, he has the mandate of his minister’s brother and, by transitive effect, also of Cristina Kirchner.
The historical ones. Politics has more examples of famous and influential brothers. Carlos Saúl Menem had Eduardo, who was provisional president of the Senate, that is, third in the line of presidential succession. And he also had an important role in the reform of the Constitution of 1994.
In the province of Buenos Aires, in addition to the brothers Mario and Juan Pablo Cafierohistorians of Peronism and children of Antonio, there was also the case of former governor Daniel Scioli, whose most famous brother was the operator José “Pepe” Scioli, although there was also another less famous named Nicolás.
The Kirchner family also left its mark for this statistic. When Néstor became president, he appointed his sister Alicia as Minister of Social Development, a position she held during the twelve years of the K government, also accompanying her sister-in-law Cristina.
Brothers be united.
