The Security Minister, Aníbal Fernández, said this Saturday that it was Lula who asked the President “if a room in the Government House could be used” to meet with human rights organizations, affirmed that in that meeting the head of state He participated because Lula himself “asked him to accompany him” and maintained that in the Casa Rosada “there is no vocation to harm” his Interior counterpart, Eduardo ‘Wado’ De Pedro.
Fernández made these statements when asked by the AM750 radio and by the C5N news channel about the supposed discontent generated in the Interior portfolio that the Kirchnerist minister and leader has not been invited to be part of the meeting between Lula and the personalities of Human Rights, materialized during the recent visit of the Brazilian leader, a version that circulated based on reports and about which Aníbal Fernández said this Saturday that the organizations, in any case, “would have taken care of adding it and there would have been no problem And that’s not how it happened.”
“They asked the President for a place to meet with human rights organizations; the President provided a place at Casa Rosada and the President of Brazil invited the Argentine President to be part of that meeting and that was the case. There was no intention to harm nobody”, assured the Minister of Security, who on the other hand remarked that he does not have “any personal problem with Wado” but “a good personal relationship”.
However, when referring to De Pedro, Aníbal Fernández declared that he was not “at all satisfied” with the content of “the expressions” linked to this episode that were attributed to the Interior portfolio, adding that in his view the minister “He is not the one to ask the President for certain explanations.”
And then he declared: “If they didn’t invite him, I don’t know who didn’t invite him, and I don’t know if he has to be at a meeting in which the President of Brazil wants to meet with human rights organizations and asks the President (Argentine) accompany him”.
On the other hand, the Minister of Security referred to the internal situation of the Frente de Todos and what its electoral strategy will be, an issue in which he vindicated the idea that if Alberto Fernández were to run for re-election, he should do so without competition, without that another leader of the official space present himself to the PASO.
In this sense, in one of the interviews he was asked about some recent statements by the Chaco governor Jorge Capitanich, who stated that “if the President has the will to go for re-election, no minister or representative of space should compete.”
Aníbal Fernández said he agreed with Capitanich’s thesis, and urged the rest of the FdT leadership to take the same position: “Peronism has always been very consistent in that. We have been and we must fight for it, because (before ) would come out by itself without any effort”.
“In this country it is very clear that the only one who can compete seriously is the President of the Nation and I bet on that decision. The others (the other aspirants to compete for the presidential candidacy) may have the vocation of wanting to do so. If they have that vocation, in June they register as such, compete and get the desire,” insisted the Quilmeño leader.
