Before leaving, Mauricio Macri is eager to appoint two ambassadors to the OAS and FAO.

The appointment of two ambassadors a few days after the end of the mandate caused some agitation at the diplomatic meetings. It was published this morning in the Official Journal, although the news seemed to sound like a rumor for a few days. It is about two key missions to the largest international organizations which will be occupied by diplomats with very close ties to Casa Rosada. Four years ago, Mauricio Macri had strongly criticized the then president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, for taking a similar step.

The appointment of new representatives before FAO and the OASHigh-ranking foreign ministers leave the president's office and, although this benefits two career diplomats, Carlos Cherniak and Guillermo RaimondiThis must be read as a decision of a political nature: it is two men close to the government who have the greatest confidence of Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie and his political leader, the influential Secretary for Strategic Affairs, Fulvio Pompeo.

The measure has attracted attention because contradicts the position taken by Macri four years agoWhen he first criticized and then let go of a series of diplomatic appointments made by CFK in the latter part of his administration, they remember in the corridors of the Chancery, where spirits are heated by d & # 39; other decisions made by Balcarce 50 for the benefit of the friends of the president at the expense of other career diplomats.

The case of Cherniak and Raimondiboth belong to the diplomatic service although they come from a radical lineage and have a very fluid relationship with Casa Rosada. Raimondi will replace in Washington another politician very close to the president: former MP Paula Bertol, who completed his mission at the OAS earlier this month to focus on the final leg of the Macri campaign. In recent years, Bertol had played a key role in the government's strategy regarding Venezuela.

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Cherniak, for its part, will replace before FAO Maria Cristina Boldorini, another career diplomat left on this mission since Susana Malcorra. It is a very popular destination in a city where Argentina has not one, but three different diplomatic representations, each with the corresponding budget: embassy in Italy, mission to the Holy See and Organization of Nations. United for Food and Agriculture, commonly known as FAO for its acronym in English.