Crisis in the Argentine government: officials responding to Cristina Kirchner submitted their resignation to President Alberto Fernandez

the hard electoral defeat suffered by the bureaucracy in the legislative primaries last Sunday in Argentina it brought about a strong crisis in the government of Alberto Fernandez when this Wednesday they submitted their resignation to at least five ministers and other lower-ranking officials politically responsive Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

The Ministers of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” de Pere, Of Justice Martín Soria and Science and Technology, Roberto Salvarezza, Of Culture, Tristan Bauer, Together with the head of the PAMI, Luana Volnovich and that of the ANSES, Fernanda Raverta they made available to president Alberto Fernández his resignations as a result of the hard electoral defeat suffered by the official in the Primary elections

They are all officials who respond to the vice president, Cristina Kirchner.

As the minutes passed, the Minister of the Environment joined, Juan Cabandié and the owner of Aerolíneas Argentinas, Pablo Ceriani. Meanwhile, ministers like Jorge Ferraresi, Habitat; Gabriel Katopodis, Public Works; i Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, of Women, Gender and Diversity, have indicated that on Monday they made their resignations available but not formally.

The move adds to other similar gestures in the governments of the province of Buenos Aires and Santa Cruz, also managed by governors of Kirchnerism, which took place earlier this week, just hours after the defeat in the PAS .

On Monday, the governor of Santa Cruz and sister-in-law of the vice president, Alicia Kirchner, asked her officials to make the resignation available and this Wednesday the Minister of Government of Buenos Aires, Teresa García, reported that the entire Cabinet to submit the resignation to Governor Axel Kicillof.

Pere’s “Wado” letter

“It motivates the present to make available to me my resignation from the post of Minister of the Interior of the Nation with which I have been honored since December 10, 2019,” wrote “Wado” De Pedro in a letter that sent to President this afternoon.

The leader of the Campora addressed the Head of State and commented that “Listening to his words on Sunday night where he raised the need to interpret the verdict expressed by the Argentine people, I considered that the best way to collaborate with this task is to put my resignation at their disposal.”.

According to sources from the Casa Rosada, “All officials formally or informally informed the President that he is in office”. That is, although they did not send a letter to Alberto Fernández, they let him know that they can step aside at the time he asks for it.

Until yesterday, the president considered that the best way was to keep the Cabinet, at least, until the November 14 general election. In line with this position he supported, from the symbolic, the continuity of the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, And the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán, With whom he appeared in different acts.

From Kirchnerism they demanded the head of both in the short term. They considered it to be the two proper names that had to pay for Sunday’s defeat. Cafiero as a representative of the top government and Guzmán as responsible for economic measures, which failed to generate support for society at the polls.

The mass resignation movement seeks to generate an effect of change in the Government in the face of the hard defeat suffered by the Front de Tots at the polls. Movement that from the Pink House denied in repeated occasions warning that it was not in the plan of action to renew the Cabinet.

In parallel with the resignations, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Massa, Quoted officials responding at 5:30 p.m. at the headquarters of the Front Renovador. The Minister of Transport will attend, Alexis Guerrera; the owner of AYSA, Malena Galmarini and other lower-ranking officials.

The possibility of a change of cabinet has been studied in the Government since before the elections and was again on the table on Sunday night, after the electoral beating. From the different sectors of the coalition they warned of the need to generate changes in the short term to show that the electoral coup affected.

However, he never thought of a scene like the one that was raised this Wednesday with half of the Cabinet making available the resignation in jail and the other half warning that he had already made his word on Monday morning.

There was no unity of opinion, so it is unknown whether the President was aware of the situation or found out this afternoon.