Juan recordois took several hours more than most politicians publicly dismissed Pope Francis. Only at noon on April 21, when the news of Jorge Bergoglio’s death was already the main title of the world’s media for several hours, the social leader wrote a meaningful message: “Let’s remember it. Let’s be good people, let’s do what we can, don’t be so bad.”he put on Twitter. And he completed: “Let’s assume the mission that pointed to us: take care of the poor, be next to them and take great care to Mother Earth.”
“It cost him a lot because he was very affected,” they say in their surroundings. In fact, he declined all media invitation to give his opinion. It is that I was united with Bergoglio an intense relationship, which had begun in Buenos Aires and had moved to the Vatican.
His friendship with Francisco had given him a special place in the local scene. A specific weight. Beyond his personal work, he had also become a kind of political representative of the Pope in the country. Bergoglio’s death now leaves him orphan from the influence he exerted.
Closeness.
For his friendship with the Pope, and for the social work he recognized, Graboois had unrestricted access to the Vatican. He was a member of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development and a source of permanent consultation of Bergoglio on the future of the country.
“Juan always broke the balls with the Pope’s encyclicals. We didn’t give him a lot of ball, But he is a great teacher. I feel that we would have to have heard it more, ”said Ofelia Fernández after the death of Bergoglio. Graboois tried to bring to Peronism the voice of Francisco, authorized by the Supreme Pontiff. That closeness with one of the most influential personalities in the western world gave him a special place in the country, an asset that will no longer have.
“They had the same referents: cartoneros, workers, seamstresses. The poor,” they say near recordois. Shortly before the death of the Pope, the leader had written a public letter: “To us, those who had the privilege of sharing pieces of the road with him, Francisco marked us over fire,” he said. And continued: “Jorge is a common type of the Flores neighborhood that he became heals and walked even if he became the most important Argentine in history. A conservative who became revolutionary. ”
With Francisco in life, Graboois was in Rome for the last time in early March. He made vigil for five consecutive days at the Gemelli Hospital, where the Pope was admitted. At that time there was a confusing episode that international media titled as a possible intrusion of the social leader in the health center. Then he would deny the version. “It’s stupid,” he said. According to his story, he had not tried to sneak into and did not try to enter the room where the Supreme Pontiff was hospitalized, but had entered to send him a letter and everything had passed in peace. It was his last controversy around the figure of the Pope.
Beyond its social work, which will continue unalterable, recordois will have to continue forging your political figure without the sponsorship of the Pope. He became a candidate for president of Unión by the country in 2023, in an intern who won with absolute Sergio Massa comfort. However, he reaped one million votes (6% of the electorate) “with two squatting”, as defined then.
Francisco’s figure also made politics molded around his “friends.” For example, it caused at the end of 2024 to reconcile with the former Minister of Economy of Alberto Fernández, Martín Guzmánwhich also had arrival at the Vatican. The social leader had confessed that he had been one of the “boycott to the son of a bitch of Guzmán”, by the agreement with the IMF, but after the Pope extended the networks they made the peace.
“The Pope is on my left,” said recordois when some Peronist chicanened him with his revolutionary positions inside the party. Francisco was the seal of the management of the social leader in the last decade. He will continue to preach his teachings, but he will not be able to use his influence. Francisco, the political godfather, is no longer. Graboois will have to continue building his career without him.
