Alberto and Cristina know that society is losing patience

Vice-President Cristina Fernández was convinced, at least until a few days ago, that most of Argentinian society was very understanding with the government. He conveyed this impression on several occasions to President Alberto Fernández. The meaning of the message is twofold. This can be positive: there would be a sector of citizenship that would maintain a link of harmony with the power K. But the scenario in which she thinks is potential and other.

This harmony between the “palace and the street” could begin to fracture. This analysis now worries the royal leaders of the Front de Todos. The conflicts on public roads, including criticism of officials attending official events, are occurring more and more frequently. The mobilizations of social organizations occupy Avenue 9 de Julio, where the Ministry of Social Development, the target of their demands, is held, are more numerous and more frequent. The relative calm with which the Fernández analyzed the social panorama changed. The country has changed.

Half of the population lives in poverty. Inflation is rising to forty-eight percent if calculated on a year-over-year basis compared to last May. the business closure It exceeds tens of thousands if we include companies with relevant structures but also small and medium-sized enterprises. The pandemic continues to expand with varying degrees of intensity. The deaths from Covid-19 in the country are more than eighty-eight thousand. Three million eighty-three thousand were infected and survived.

As he was able to reconstruct Bugle from reliable sources of Fernández (Cristina), vice is alarmed by a future it tries to avoid: “Alberto, people do not have the means to pay”, he would have repeated to the head of state. Two weeks ago, various events indicate that the benevolence of a sector of society that the vice perceived harmoniously began to change his mood and He came out to voice his problems. The “street”, a territory dominated in the political sense historically by Peronism, begins to escape the control of the authorities. The president was booed at the events of the 200th anniversary of Martin Miguel de Güemes in the province of Salta. The governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kiciloff, had to deliver a speech to inaugurate a road in Junín, listen to the sound of horns of cars held in protest against various claims of the inhabitants of this city. Fernandez (Alberto) canceled his presence during a ceremony in the city of Pergamino in Buenos Aires. A group of agricultural producers waited to protest against him.

At Casa Rosada, they assure that the Head of State has suspended this presentation due to changes in his agenda. Although this version is not wary of, the facts are facts: the demonstrators were still there because they had announced the completion of a section of the national road 8. It is a job that would benefit to these same rabid rural people. There weren’t many. But there they stayed. The act was the responsibility of one of the ministers in whom the Head of State trusts the most, the Head of Public Works, Gabriel Katopodis.

Sudden demands, organized by evil political apparatuses to harm enemies, or real ones, also reach the opposition authorities. At the latest press conference to announce the new openings amid the pandemic led by Buenos Aires chief Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, they were heard in the background, as he spoke, bombs. Traders drowned by the measures to try to stop the scourge, but which ended up affecting their businesses, had gathered in front of the door of the seat of the town hall.

According to a study by the consulting firm Political diagnosis, which reveals since 2009 the number of street demonstrations taking place across the country, during the month of May, “The increase in protests by social organizations and neighborhood groups has been particularly notable, against restrictions. In terms of the distribution of cuts by province, the peaks were repeated in Buenos Aires, Misiones, Neuquén and Santa Fe, adding Chubut ”. The report adds that “social organizations have risen to the forefront, followed by groups of the unemployed”. And that those identified as “private” were also the protagonists of various claims. Follow-up in turn by citizens called by themselves as self-summoned ”.

The director of political diagnosis, Patricio Giusto, explained to Bugle that “with the approach of the elections, the marches will surely increase, with their epicenter in the federal capital”. And he adds that the “The economic and social context is worse than in previous years”. According to him, the demonstrations are “politicized” and he notices that there are differences between social movements and unions “some are mobilizing and others not”. The analyst adds that this situation is produced by the “In-depth trainees from the Front de Tous”.

Last Friday, forty social groups and piqueteras they mobilized towards the Ministry of Social Development. July 9 seemed crowded. Other movements which gathered around twenty thousand people – the calculation is not official – included the Polo Obrero, which refers to the leader Eduardo Belliboni; Autonomous districts of the South; and the Front of Struggle Organizations.

The mobilizing power of these structures was powerful. It is admitted by Cabinet sources who accept that at the start of the election year, in an economic crisis and with high inflation, these protests will be repeated. As well as complaints to officials who will enter to “walk” in the territories after the start of the electoral campaign.

Although the image that centralized the attention of informed public opinion was that of the crowd that filled part of July 9, Friday’s demonstration was replicated, on a large scale and with premier protest methods. plan, such as stakes, in Córdoba, Formosa, Corrientes, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero, Santa Fe, Chaco, Jujuy, Tucumán, Catamarca, Entre Ríos, San Juan, La Rioja, Misiones and even Tierra del Fuego.

The Department of Social Development, under the command of Daniel Arroyo, has increased social assistance and executed around 730 billion pesos in various social programs and more direct assistance in particular conflicts.

Agency sources explained that the last big march of left-wing groups they found no explanation porque ese mismo día el ente había transferido seis mil pesos a un millón de beneficiarios del plan Potenciar Trabajo (que financia a cooperativas), y además se cargaron las tarjetas Alimentar, that utilizan cuatro millones de personas para comprar alimentos con 18 mil million pesos in all.

The leader Belliboni insists that money is not enough, no matter how goodwill they put in social development because the situation is becoming more and more critical: inflation does not give way, among other problems that ‘they raised during the last demonstration. The issue is complicated not only by the crisis and the lack of budgets to cover the needs of half of the country in poverty.

The ministry he heads has different secretariats that control who until a few years ago they were also on the streets leading protests. The economic secretariat is headed by one of the leaders of the Evita movement, Emilio Persico.

In the organization chart, below this position, you also have a position the former leader of Barrios de Pie, Daniel Ceballos. The Food Policy Secretariat is managed by Laura Alonso, one of La Cámpora’s most important leaders. The Secretariat for Urban Integration, responsible for improving popular neighborhoods with infrastructure, is headed by Fernanda Miño. He militates with the leader of the Movement of Excluded Workers, Juan Grabois.

There are detainees between them and other officials. They manage multi-million dollar cross-interest budgets. But the streets began to change not only for those affected by poverty.

In addition to those complaining about issues related to the pandemic, other sectors facing the government, such as the rural producers, he becomes more and more active. Could it be because of the anger of the rural people of Santa Fe that today the president will not be present at the anniversary of the creation of the flag in Rosario? The agrarian groups, or at least their most solid bases, are preparing a mobilization and demonstrations for a specific and symbolic date: July 9. Independence Day.

Will the Head of State go to Tucumán, historic seat of this national holiday? Perhaps more protests against the Frente de Todos await him there. Their vice usually does not accompany them at events of this style.