Rossi took command of the Cabinet: balance in the internal and key role in the political agenda

Agustin Rossi he crossed Avenida Rivadavia on a path with no return. He left his office at the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) to occupy one on the first floor of the Casa Rosada, just across from his old post. From today, he will take control of Cabinet seat, replacing Juan Manzur, who takes over tomorrow as head of government in Tucumán.

The new head of ministers swore with a firm voice and a tattooed smile on his face. The “yes, I swear it” triggered a little song from the field that came from the last rows of chairs located in the Bicentennial Museum. Several Santa Fe leaders from the National Militancy Current were there, a political space that in Santa Fe has Rossi as its main reference. “Olé, olé, olé, Goat, Goat”they encouraged.

“Agustín values ​​the unity of our space and will work with me to preserve that unity”was the message from Alberto Fernández, who highlighted his friendship with Rossi since the beginning of the millennium and who assured that the man from Santa Fe “he never left the Cabinet” because “it was always close”.

The idea for the beginning of the management is to maintain a working pattern with individual interviews with ministers. In principle, there would be no summons to a council of ministers, but would face the work in a more personalized way. The former legislator comes to play a key political role in the management and political discussion of the Frente de Todos.

Rossi took over as defense minister early in the administration, but was ousted from his place by the same president who today embraced him fervently. He paid with a cabinet post for the decision not to fully align with Fernández and Cristina Kirchner’s demand that in the 2021 elections there be a single list of candidates in Santa Fe.

The “goat” competed in a tie and lost to the candidates that Santa Fe Governor Omar Perotti had managed to agree with the vice president. His relationship with the president today sucks. Despite this moment when there was a strong tension in the link between Rossi and the presidential leadership, the man from Santa Fe has never ceased to be close to the head of state.

This place in the ruling circles close to Fernández led him to be in the several lists of candidates to join the Cabinet in times of renewal in the structure of ministers. This speculation about his figure exhausted them and fed him. Even so, he continued to be an influential leader in the presidential orbit.

This Wednesday he was sworn in with the political support of all sectors of the Frente de Todos. Presences in political acts are, almost always, symbols that depict the reality behind the photo. In the basement of the Casa Rosada were representatives of Kirchnerisme, La Cámpora, Frente Renovador, CGT, K unionism, social movements and mayors of the suburbs.

The only absentees were the governors of the PJ. The excuse was that tomorrow morning some of them will be present in Tucumán for the investiture of Manzur. From today, many of them will begin to make a new connection with Rossi, who appears on the scene at a time when the national government is very worn out and the discussion for the candidatures intensifies at a increasingly rapid pace.

Most of the Cabinet was under oath, among them Sergio Massa, the Minister of Economy who, moreover, is a main partner of the Frente de Todos. The Minister of the Interior was also present. Edward “Wado” by Peterthe voice of Cristina Kirchner in Balcarce 50 and representative of La Cámpora in the official acts of the national government.

Hector Daer and Carlos Acuna were the representatives of the CGT, while Hugo Yasky, Roberto Baradel there Hugo “Cachorro” Godoy They were in the name of Kirchneriste trade unionism. The two suburban mayors present came from this branch: Fernando Espinoza (The Murder) and Mario Dry (Ensenada).

There were representatives of historical Kirchnerism, such as the former Minister of Defense Nilda Garrethe former deputy Diana Conti and the former head of the Federal Authority for Audiovisual Communication Services (AFSCA) under the government of Cristina Kirchner, Martin Sabatelle. Also in this historic line was former Chief of Staff Juan Manuel Abal Medina.

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