The Minister of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro, assured that during Mauricio Macri’s administration “we were all on parole”, stating that “either you did what he said or they set up a cause.”
“What happened in Macri’s four years had never happened. We were all on probation, or you did what Macri said or they started a case. I am concerned about the inaction of the Court regarding very obvious situations that are happening in the Federal Justice“, said the Minister of the Interior in an interview with the newspaper La Nación published this Sunday.
De Pedro said he had “a worrying diagnosis about some sectors of the Judiciary, and even more so when we see a video like the one we saw this week where what we had been denouncing many years ago, that there was a mechanism for the articulation of intelligence services to persecute businessmen , leaders, opponents, governors and mayors “.
According to the minister, “a sector of the Judiciary continues to be an accomplice of those structures that are weakening the democratic system”, referring to the video in which spies, businessmen and former officials of the government of María Eugenia Vidal can be seen allegedly designing a strategy to achieve the imprisonment of union leaders.
On the other hand, De Pedro evaluated 2021 as “a positive year” because “the numbers of the last 5 years began to be reversed” and assured that “it is not the time to talk about candidacies for 2023” since “you have to put all the energy in solving the economic, labor and security problems that exist in the country. “
In that sense, the official said that “after four years of a government that increased unemployment, of indebtedness for flight, of closure of Industries, of a government that governed for a small group and after a year of pandemic, yes I it seems that the year is positive “.
“They began to reverse the numbers of the last five years and we had a historic vaccination plan “, he assured.
Meanwhile, when asked about his relationship with the president Alberto Fernandez, De Pedro said that “the relationship is normal“.
“We have to normalize internal discussions within the political coalitions. The relationship is normal, that is my answer,” reiterated the Interior Minister.
Also, he remarked: “I like to give the discussions in the face, in front, to say the things that I think and that I see. I like to discuss face to face, I do not go off to pass messages”.
Asked about the President’s affirmations of taking a big STEP to settle candidacies in 2023, De Pedro highlighted that “we were always very inclined to use this method of renewal and internal discussion. In fact, in 2019 we had lists to dispute in some territories and they asked us not to present them. “
“It is a good method, but it is not time to talk about elections. We are finishing a year in which there was already an election. You have to assimilate the message, focus on solving people’s problems“said the official.
“We are ending a year in which there was already an election. You have to assimilate the message, put the focus on solving the problems of the people”
Regarding the possibility that the group La Cámpora present a candidate for those elections, the minister reiterated that “This is not the time to talk about candidacies, This is not the time to talk about 2023. Now we have to focus, we have to put all the energy in solving the economic, labor and security problems that exist in the country“.
“We are focused, seriously, on helping and participating in a government that has to solve many problems. Seriously, I tell you, there is no discussion today about 2023. Seriously! We are busy in lower inflation, generate employment, include the excluded. We do not advance discussions, “he emphasized.
About the possibility that he will be Presidential candidateDe Pedro replied: “We just had an election. I never heard him. We are busy solving people’s problems. I am not moved by internism or am distracted by something that is going to happen in two years.”
On the relationship between the President and the Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the official said that “Alberto commands the management, and Cristina the Senate of the Nation.”
“The Executive Power is only one, commanded by President Alberto Fernández, it does not complicate the management at all. The government is one“said De Pedro.
“The Executive Power is only one, commanded by President Alberto Fernández, it does not complicate the management at all. The Government is one”
Asked about the attitude of the opposition of reject Budget 2022 in CongressThe official said he felt “disappointment” and said that he never imagined that the opposition, “with the actors who are in the Together for Change bloc, was going to vote against it and was going to leave the Argentines without a budget.”
“I keep calling them to reflection, they have to remember. This is a first: it was my turn in 2015, after losing the election, to go to Congress for the first meeting with Emilio Monzó in which they did not have the number to claim. the presidency of the chamber. At Cristina’s request, I conveyed to them that we understood that due to the institutional functioning of Argentina they had to preside over both chambers, “the minister recalled.
He said that “that was the main institutional gesture that Cristina had with Cambiemos. Today (Emilio) Monzó did not vote on the budget. I call you back to reflection. I am optimistic that the competition in Cambiemos to see who puts more sticks in the wheel will it has to transform into a competition for the positive. They remain irresponsible as opposition. “
And he added: “We proposed rules of the game to the opposition governors that have nothing to do with the ones they applied when they had to govern. With (Horacio) Rodríguez Larreta, with (María Eugenia) Vidal, with the governors, with Máximo Kirchner, with (Sergio) Massa, with the President “.
“We proposed to them to leave behind a four-year logic where things were done that had not been done in any democratic government. The persecution, the pressure. We are not going to become what some of them are. We want a normal and political relationship with the opposition, “he emphasized.
