He World It does not cure or make us forget reality, much less the problems that affect many Argentines. It only operates as a analgesicwhich relieves, distracts and attenuates the impact. The corruption and the political leadership scandals and political officials seem to operate under that logic.
The obscenity of images and the eloquence of several cases linked to the enrichment or lack of transparency of leaders and officials who dominated the public agenda in recent days, as well as the impact and permanence they have on the public agenda, would prove it.
Those facts occupy predominant places and appear in almost all virtual and in-person conversationseven in depoliticized spaces, as recorded by public opinion experts and social media analysts. Also, provoke reactions and events of a political nature that construct meaning and reinforce opinions or prejudiceseven though football concentrates much of the attention of Argentines these days.
“Corruption ranks second in surveys as the country’s main problem,” he explains. Lara Goyburudirector of the consulting firm Management&Fit, with whom at least three of her colleagues agree.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the extraordinary footage of the (un)dressing room and dollar store of Jessica Cirio and, it is assumed, from his ex-partner, the top Peronist baron of the Buenos Aires suburbs. Martin Insaurraldeworthy of some film Martin Scorsesewill provoke an almost hypnotic effect as well as rejection due to its excessive procacity, despite the renewed enchantment that Lionel Messi generates.
At the same time, the videos made public more than three years after being recorded They replaced all the topics and cases of Kirchnerist corruption and fueled the bloody dispute between Cristinistas and Kicillofistas. Another political fratricidal fight, which in the previous days had been exposed in all its depth by Maximo Kirchner in the demonstration to demand the release of his mother, the former president. An act that seen these events, It couldn’t have been more inopportune.. Only one was missing remake of the bags full of dollars from José López to complicate Cristina Kirchner’s claim.
The accusations of ingratitude that the bi-presidential son raised in Parque Lezama against the Buenos Aires governor, whom he did not name, but there was no need for him to do so, were like a handful of salt on a reopened wound. Axel Kicillof and theirs do not forget these days that It was Christicamporism that imposed Insaurralde as head of the provincial Cabinetafter the defeat in the 2021 elections, with which stained his greatest symbolic capital, recognized even by his adversaries: personal honesty.
To make matters worse, the Kicillofistas are forced to keep silent about it in public and to demarcate any definition of Insaurralde in the courts, so as not to give more credibility to one of the weaknesses that are imputed to the governor: the inability or impossibility of govern and build politically without depending on Cristina Kirchner and La Cámpora. Too many obstacles for those who aspire to be a candidate for President and cannot exploit one of the few attributes that no one disputes.
All this without talking about the infinite ramifications that this new season of the saga is having and could have. The Banditwhich with these developments has judges, political leaders from almost the entire political spectrum and several entrepreneurs of noble and not so noble activitieswhose names are beginning to be mentioned almost daily and could appear on the phone that Cirio handed over to Justice. Curiously, Insaurralde seems to be one of the few who tells his interlocutors that he sleeps peacefully, at least when it comes to judicial consequences. Why would it be?
Adorni is always there
It is not the only curiosity. The Jesivideosdespite its notable impact and box office success, They did not remove them from the public agenda, but rather they competed and even promotedthe scandals that continue to surround the Chief of Staff, Manuel Adorni.
The relief and enthusiasm generated in the official universe by the impudent images of the mansion that the model and the former mayor shared years ago lasted too short. This is admitted by some of the most realistic and reasonable leaders and officials of the ruling party and several of their allies, who no longer know what else to do to make the President and his more than influential sister hand over Adorni after the long succession of contradictions, omissions and public lies about his wealth growth and his sumptuary expenses.
The tragicomedy that the Chief of Staff has been starring in for three months has never lost rating points and affects not only the President and his government. The case is taking its toll even on some of his allieswho pay the cost for their formalisms or lukewarmness on the matter.
What about Insaurralde does not cover what the Chief of Staff does, but rather enhances it. “After the videos of the K money route, where millions of dollars were counted, 13 years ago, non-Kirchnerists are no longer astonished or scandalized by these images. It only reaffirms what they already thought about Kirchnerism. On the contrary, it enhances Adorni’s, since in the face of a sensitized public opinion affects a space that said it was coming to end the practices of the old politics. With the aggravating factor that those who defend it try to minimize it by discussing magnitudes. That is, who is more corrupt?”explains a political and communications operator with access to the Casa Rosada.
Furthermore, the delays, for reasons of political convenience and regulatory justifications, to question the Chief of Staff operate these days like acid rain on the ruling party, as well as on some of its allies (permanent and circumstantial), in addition to making the legislative task difficult or impeding.
“Moral bombshell”
The postponement of the treatment in the Chamber of Deputies of the motion to question Adorni that was promoted by Kirchnerism, some radicals, the Civic Coalition, the left and a sector of Peronism, unleashed a “moral bombshell” on Pro.
The decision of the bloc that presides Cristian Ritondo joining the libertarians to discuss the initiative in committee, led to a explosive public letter of resignation to the party of the former Minister of Education and former Senator Macrista Esteban Bullrich. A figure who has become not only an example of resilience in the face of adversity but also enjoys a moral authority for a large part of the population, which the majority lacks political leadership.
In the message addressed to Mauricio MacriBullrich accuses the party of protecting Adorni and argues that “When political expediency begins to outweigh ethical responsibility, leadership loses its deepest meaning.”.
The Macri administration acknowledged receipt of the impact that the letter produced. The general secretary of the party and national deputy Fernando de Andreis, alter ego of Macri, responded to Bullrich. He denied that they were protecting the Chief of Staff, as well as argued that Pro had promoted the interpellation with his own project in the Senate.
However, in the depths of the yellow submarine the letter from the former Macrista senator turned green. discomfort, criticism and self-criticism. Among the main targets is the head of the Deputies block. They consider that Ritondo He did not explain or communicate the position of the bench in a timely manner, which gave rise to interpretations like those of Bullrich, and, to make matters worse, because he did not dare to acknowledge in a journalistic query that Adorni had lied before the Lower House, as he himself implicitly acknowledged in the interview with José Del Rio, on LN+.
“We cannot deny that Cristian’s leadership, due to some personal issues and ties with the Government, especially through Santiago Caputo, brings us some problems“, they admit in the circle of the founder of the party. When they talk about “personal issues”, the macristas refer to the pedestrian revelation of the existence of properties and companies of the deputy abroadupon whose disclosure the first in going out to defend him it was Javier Mileibefore Macri.
The other factor of internal discomfort these days has been Jorge Macrifor his mimicry with speeches, policies and actions of milleism and the intention to seek an electoral agreement with La Libertad Avanza to preserve political control of the original bastion of Macriism.
All of this contains Bullrich’s subtext when he states: “The protection given to Adorni was, for me, the fact that made that distance evident.” That is, only one trigger differences that were coming accumulator and not the only cause.
This Friday Mauricio Macri is expected to redouble the differentiation that has been marking with the Government, not only because of the scandals surrounding the Chief of Staff, such as when he demanded that Milei “defend change and not Adorni.” It will be a way to limit the damage that Bullrich’s text produced. Also to reinforce his attempt to reconstruct Pro as a political-electoral option.
The accusatory resignation could not have been more uncomfortable for the former president.who abandoned his attendance at the soccer World Cup for a week to carry out the complex task of refloating the submarine. A fact with few precedents in his career and none since he left the Presidency. Esteban Bullrich acted as an uncomfortable alarm clock for the World Cup nap.
As for the social and political effects, perhaps trust the analgesic effect of the football summit, enhanced by the dazzling performances of Lionel Messi.
“All obscenity is now paused because of the World Cup. Corruption indicators are increasing, but not enough to move the Government. Society entered a kind of recess”says sociologist Eduardo Fidanza.
However, the director of Poliarquía warns: “Like wine, football helps to forget. Although later the memory returns and prevails, but not yet.”
The Government and its allies would do well to register the warning. The World Cup and the Jesivideos do not save Adornibut rather they enhance its case and its effects, although it may have a delayed impact.
