The former ministers of Alberto Fernandez they have a characteristic that they may have taken from the President himself: kicking out of the Government and not hesitating to criticize the former boss. When Fernández left the government of Christina KichnerIn 2008, he became one of the biggest detractors of the then president. Today, just by looking at what the former ministers of the Frente de Todos are up to, they can be found distanced from Alberto. Some with tougher points of view and others more moderate, but all have something to criticize about the President. In the last days, Antonio Aracre and Matías Kulfas They gave interviews in which they hinted that they did not agree with the President’s ways.
Aracre, consulted by the newspaper Perfil about his way of working with Fernández, said: “The problem is that, perhaps, one of the things The one with which I felt least comfortable working with Alberto was that style of radio leadership that he hasHe doesn’t usually convene work groups, but rather talks with one person, talks with another, then with another, and that makes teamwork a bit difficult”. To this criticism it could be added that one of Fernández’s characteristics when it comes to connecting with people is that he says yes to everyone, but then he finds it difficult to move forward with any subject.
Matias Kulfas, who is presenting his book “A Peronism for the 21st century”, said in a report with Radio Con Vos that in the Government “there was a level of open-air internism that there was not in any other government.” “You can have very complex contexts, but if you have a cohesive government, where everyone pulls in the same direction, you can have tools to deal with those problems. But if what happened happens, which is a government where internal wars, blockades, boycotts begin, it is very difficult for it to turn out well,” he added, referring to the fights with Cristina Kirchner, something of which he was a victim.
Victoria Donda, who was in charge of Inadi, also dedicated his post-public performance time to writing a book. At the end of April he launched “Love defeats hate”, with the participation of fellow militants and even businessman Gerardo Ferreyra and his son Sebastián. Donda, when he left the management of Alberto Fernández, he said goodbye with a letter of resignation. “A government effort can never be divorced from what the society it supposedly represents feels,” she wrote. And she added: “Our national management, little by little, He gradually disappointed us by moving away from what I thought was his most intimate essence., improve the material and symbolic conditions of the millions who voted for us full of hope in 2019”. It was a harsh goodbye.
Another of the hardest was Nicholas Trotta, the former Minister of Education who was seated next to Cristina Kirchner in an act at the Teatro Argentino in La Plata on April 27. Trotta left fighting with Alberto Fernández and when he took the courage to criticize, he did not hesitate to launch them. He affirmed that “some ideas were left along the way” for him. and that the Frente de Todos “has not become a tool for positive transformation.” To close, He said he was “disappointed”. One of Trotta’s truncated projects was a book about his management that he was working on and which he never published. It was only in a draft.
Former Minister for Women Elizabeth Gomez Alcorta, he had moments of anxiety during his administration, especially when Juan Manzur landed in the Cabinet headquarters, with whom he had no point of closeness. In the end he ended up leaving and also criticized Alberto, but also added Sergio Massa. “This government has failed. neither Alberto nor Massa represent us”, he said in reference to the space of the Kirchnerist left.
Another who made criticisms -but they went more unnoticed- was Roberto Salvarezza, former Minister of Science and Technology. He signed an open letter from a group of K-edged intellectuals who stated that “government policy has reached its most tragic point: the preparation of announcement scenarios where no announcements are made. A play on words similar to Cristina Kirchner’s “functionaries that do not work”. The intellectuals spoke in the letter of a “failed practice of anticipating policies that do not materialize: the Government itself generates expectations and the disappointment of expectations.” This point is related to the K claims for the judicial reform that was not. It was announced several times and there was no progress.
Also the former chancellor Felipe Solá left criticizing Cristina and Alberto, affirming that this controversial relationship causes the power of the two to “diminish” and “that makes the President’s action difficult.” Of that original cabinet, only a few ministers remain standing. Even Gustavo Beliz, one of Fernández’s best friends, decided to step aside after Massa’s arrival at the Ministry of Economy. For now, he was the only one who did not criticize. For now.
