In politics, coincidences are usually laboratory constructions. What journalist Jonatan Viale recently put under the microscope is not only a rhetorical similarity, but a phenomenon that in the corridors of Balcarce 50 is beginning to smell like a crisis manual: the defenses of Manuel Adorni and the former deputy José Luis Espert in the face of their respective scandals they are, word for word, a carbon copy.
The “25 years” mantra
The pattern is aesthetic and discursive. In the face of adversity, both resort to the same raft of salvation: their successful past in private activity.
- The phrase: “I worked 25 years in the private sector” became the universal shield.
- The argument: Espert used it when the accusation broke out over his dark ties to drug trafficking and the financing of his campaign; and Adorni repeated it, almost with the same intonation, when the scandal broke out over the use of public funds for trips and alleged gifts.
The strategy is clear: to establish that personal assets are the result of a previous effort, a kind of “sacred savings” that exempts them from giving explanations about the present. However, contradictions did not take long to appear. Adorni first assured that he paid for his tickets “with his savings”, a line of argument identical to the one Espert outlined about payments in dollars for his work as an economist.
the same lies
The seriousness of the matter lies in the fact that the discourse of “we are not the same as before” begins to collide head-on with the reality of the files. The evidence accumulated on the thread of events—especially in the case of the Spokesman’s travels—shows cracks that the story cannot cover.
It is not just a corporate defense, but a way to evade responsibility before Justice. The ruling party seems to manage a “Manual of Libertarian Excuses” where the word “private sector” functions as a diplomatic immunity pass.
Next in line?
After the scandal that ended with Espert’s departure from the main scene, doubt about the future of Manuel Adorni grows in the same proportion as his media exposure. If the script is the same, the ending of the movie might not be different.
In a Government that made transparency its war flag against “the caste”, the use of copied defenses to justify glassy assets and state favors begins to generate an unbearable internal noise. At the end of the day, the same words usually hide the same truths: Justice is not satisfied with resumes, but with invoices. And in this game of mirrors, the accounts remain unresolved.
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