The smear campaign against the vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchnerexpressed in posters that appeared this Monday in various parts of the city of Buenos Aires, received the rejection of President Alberto Fernándezwho attributed this type of practice to the interest in “dividing” the governing Front of All (FdT).
“Many insist on dividing us and resort to the greatest baseness. I’m sorry for the damage they cause to good people. Know that seeing them act, they only commit me more to the unity of the FdT, “said Fernández from his Twitter account.
In addition, the Casa Rosada reported that the head of state asked to identify the authors of the offending posters, which blame Cristina Fernández for alleged responsibility in the deaths from coronavirus that occurred in the country and link the Vice President with the acquisition of vaccines by the government. Argentine state of the Sputnik laboratory.
As I said yesterday, many insist on dividing us and resort to the greatest baseness. I’m sorry for the damage they cause to good people. Know that seeing them act, they only commit me more to the unity of the Front of All https://t.co/CUVnvHk4AC
– Alberto Fernández (@alferdez) March 28, 2022
This graphic smear campaign, mounted against the second most important institutional figure in the country, constitutes a new aggression in a few days against Cristina Fernández de Kirchnerwhose dEspacho was attacked with stones on March 10 lastduring the debate in the National Congress of the agreement with the IMF.
In addition, the stickers reproduce part of the questions from the toughest wing of the opposition, which objected to the government’s health policy against the coronavirus in critical epidemiological times in the country and sought to install the false theory that the national authorities had opted for the Russian laboratory Sputnik to the detriment of the American Pfizer, something that the American firm itself discredited.
Also, the posters with accusations against Cristina in the district commanded by Horacio Rodriguez Larreta took shape this Monday, four days after the massive popular expression for a new anniversary of March 24, 1976which last Thursday had as protagonists some of the main referents of the ruling coalition, amid internal tensions in the space due to differences regarding the agreement with the IMF.
The Senate block of the FdT, through a statement, warned that “it is a new violent defamation attempt against the former President, orchestrated by the same people who historically, with their cowardly and anonymous message of hate, seek to demonize the national and popular movement and its leadership.”
“Many insist on dividing us and resort to the greatest baseness. I regret the damage they cause to good people. Know that seeing them act, they only commit me more to the unity of the FdT.”Alberto Fernandez
“Yesterday was the unfortunate “long live cancer”; then, the ban, persecution and exile. Always, in the effort to divide the people, lose their way and their political references,” said the chamber’s pro-government caucus high in a text that bears the signatures of its president and vice president, José Mayans and Anabel Fernández Sagasti, respectively.
They stressed that “maneuvers” like this one “seek to generate discomfort and discord” because, they said, it is only about “insults, insults and lies”, but “without any proposal”.
“Those who act in this way show that they have little to offer society, and that they care less about the harmony and respect that should prevail in a democratic society,” concluded the senators, who also expressed their “absolute solidarity” with the Vice President. and demanded to identify those responsible.
?• The Block of National Senators of the @FrontOfAll repudiates the smear campaign against @CFKArgentinapic.twitter.com/QVfWta2wAd
— Senators of TOD☀️S (@Senadores_Todos) March 28, 2022
They warned that the posters are “far” from being an act of freedom of expression because “the good name and honor of a person is insulted, slandered and attacked in a cowardly and violent manner, regardless of their political affiliation”.
For its part, national deputies of the Front of All expressed their “strongest repudiation of the poster campaign against the Vice President of the Nation Cristina Fernández de Kirchner”, through the formal presentation of a draft declaration, which also warns of a scenario of “public and political violence against women”.
It is an initiative of Victoria Tolosa Pazto which the legislators gave their support María Rosa Martínez, Mabel Caparrós, Lila Caliva, Hilda Aguirre de Soria, Silvana Ginocchio, María Eugenia Alianiello, Liliana Mendoza, Estela Hernández, Daniel Gollán, Sergio Palazzo, Vanesa Siley, María Graciela Parola, Ana Carolina Gaillard, and Natalia Souto.
We repudiate the insulting posters against the Vice President @CFKArgentina
– Jorge Taiana (@JorgeTaiana) March 28, 2022
The project expresses “its strongest repudiation of the use of an image of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, on billboards in public, with insults and accusations, in which gender violence is incurred, since it offends, insults and insults the figure and investiture of the vice president”.
And along these lines, he warns that the very serious episode “constitutes public-political violence against women and that, due to its tenor, it fosters hatred.”
Earlier, the spokeswoman for the Casa Rosada, Gabriela Cerutihad assured through social networks that the President “instructed that an investigation be carried out immediately to find the authors“.
Similarly, defense ministers, Jorge Taianaof Territorial Development, Jorge Ferraresiand Security, Aníbal Fernández, lambasted the graphic campaign to discredit Cristina on social networks, as well as leaders and legislators.
All our repudiation of the posters with grievances against the vice president @CFKArgentina. Neither operations nor insults will manage to destroy the unity of the Front of Tod☀️s.
– Jorge Ferraresi (@jorgeferraresi) March 28, 2022
“We repudiate the insulting posters against the Vice President”Taiana wrote on Twitter, while Aníbal Fernández expressed: “We see with astonishment the use of the image of @CFKArgentina. Cristina is the best political figure of the last hundred years, which makes her a temptation for the mediocre who they incite and finance. A strong repudiation of this garbage of suspected origin”.
“Neither operations nor insults will succeed in destroying the unity of the Front of All”Ferraresi posted.
The President claimed on Sunday the unity of the FdT and ratified that all the members share “a clear vocation not to break” the space.
It is not so difficult to know who put up the posters, who paid for them, who printed them, and who devised this new attack on the vice president.
Republican rejections and demands for immediate clarification of the attack from all political blocs will be raining, right?– Juliana di Tullio (@ditulliojuli) March 28, 2022
“I see an insidious task of breaking us down, ‘that Alberto said such a thing, that Cristina said such a thing,’ but my concern is that now that I have removed the noose from around my neck (from the IMF) we have to start walking,” he said in an interview that he toasted on Public TV.
In the same way, references from the parliamentary sphere, such as Juliana Di Tullio and Cristina Alvarez Rodriguezadded their voices and warned about the “violent and misogynistic character of which the Vice President is a permanent victim.”
“There is no type of violence that they have not used against her,” Di Tullio tweeted. “They offend with hatred and lies one of the women who has worked the most and works for our country. Companion, the love of the people always accompanies you,” Álvarez Rodríguez dedicated to her.
My greatest repudiation of the attacks against our vice presidency @CFKArgentina. Absolutely unfounded accusations that can only be sustained with violence. https://t.co/UWz9DOgK6S
– Victoria Tolosa Paz (@vtolosapaz) March 28, 2022
The Argentine Chamber of Public Advertising Companies on Monday repudiated “the defamation campaign against the Vice President of the Nation and her investiture” and expressed its “concern about vandalism and the criminal attitude that this entails in the usurpation of our environment Communication”referring to the poster sticker against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
The Chamber denounced the “poster campaign that has illegally and illegitimately used the advertising elements of the member companies of this entity and was made known this morning.”
The Argentine Chamber of Advertising Companies on Public Streets “wants to express its repudiation not only for the content of the defamation campaign against the Vice President of the Nation and her inauguration, but also as businessmen in the sector to express our concern about vandalism and the criminal attitude that this entails in the usurpation of our means of communication for these purposes that we deplore and condemn with the emphasis it deserves,” the entity said in a statement.
He added that “we stand in solidarity with those affected by the campaign that could be seen in the streets of the city” of Buenos Aires and asked “the authorities of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires that they could implement the means at their disposal for the correct identification and subsequent traceability of the subjects who have set the campaign in the streets” of Buenos Aires.
The note is signed by the president of the Chamber, Guillermo Eduardo F. De Lella; the vice presidents Sebastián Manuel García, Julián María Álvarez Echagüe and Marcelo Alejandro J. Sosa, and the other members of the executive committee.
