• Argentina A photo of a clandestine party in full confinement puts Alberto Fernández on the ropes

A photo turned Argentine politics upside down, and the possibility that there are more and they are getting to know each other in chapters makes the ruling Peronism creak one month after a key election. To this is added the mixture of amazement and consternation in the ruling party at the strategy chosen by President

Alberto Fernández

, who

blamed his partner for the error

of having organized a clandestine party at the presidential residence in July 2020, in full confinement by the pandemic.

"

My dear Fabiola

," Fernández said in a political act broadcast by all television channels. "Fabiola called a meeting with her friends and a toast that should not have been made, which

I

definitely

realize should not have been done

. And I'm sorry that it happened. I clearly regret it," Fernández added.

Fernández and Fabiola Yáñez are not married, but they are a de facto couple. Yáñez, 40, 22 years younger than the president,

serves as "first lady"

after a past in which he had some forays into acting and journalism. So far no word has come out of his mouth, and it will hardly be, despite having been publicly exposed by his partner as the ideologist of the party he attended. On Friday night she was seen, dressed in black and two steps behind Fernández, receiving the President of Uruguay,

Luis Lacalle Pou

, at the Quinta de Olivos, the presidential residence that was the scene of the party in question.

News

magazine

dedicated a long time ago a cover to Yáñez presenting it as the axis of an alleged project "Evita Millennial", but what happened in recent days makes that idea unlikely.

Fernández is being criticized even among people who supported him unconditionally on social networks, and both he and Yáñez will

have to respond to justice

for violating the Decrees of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) that Fernández himself signed in large numbers since March of 2020 to drastically limit freedom of movement.

The "idiot" who skipped confinement

In those turbulent first weeks of the pandemic, Fernández called a young man an "idiot" who was traveling in his truck from Brazil, and with a surfboard on the roof, to his home on the Argentine coast. The

surfer

(actually a modest electrician) was dismembered in the media in days when the confinement had been assumed with religious faith by most of the local media.

He also faces a judicial process.

Federico Llamas, the 27-year-old electrician, reacted to the president's misfortune.

"It is shameful

that a president, a lawyer, does this kind of thing," he told the TN.com.ar website. And the name of idiot that the president publicly dedicated to him? "I take it as who it comes from, it slips me. A president, a lawyer, who tells me that I am an idiot for wanting to return home with an affidavit? In other words, he is the idiot who made the DNU and who did not transmit him to the people, to his team, what he had to do. "

That's how hard the panorama became for Fernández, while in his inner circle he tries to find out who leaked the photo in question, in which the presidential couple is seen along with nine other guests without social distancing or masks, in

a celebration that, according to official records, lasted more than four hours

. That July 17, 2020, Argentina was in Phase 1, citizens had notably restricted their circulation on public roads, social gatherings of all kinds were prohibited and funerals were carried out with only three assistants.

"They

closed rivers and bridges,

walled up entire provinces, gathered crowds in isolation centers, persecuted, fined, prosecuted, stranded travelers, wronged half the world. They gave a free stone to police states that came to torture those who did not abide by the obligation of the confinement, "recalled

Clarín

columnist

Miguel Wiñazki.

In the local media they point out the possibility, without any proof, that "

Fabiola's hairdresser

" was the one who circulated the photo, taken more than a year ago and used as a surgical political weapon one month before the primary elections that are due partially renew Parliament. Used by whom? By the opposition? By a sector of the secret services? By Vice President Cristina Kirchner, who days ago publicly fooled "political naivety" on the president?

Speculation and theories circulate frantically in parallel to the visible physical and mental wear of the president, who has

been in power for

just

21 months

and must govern until December 2023, although today everything is uncertain in a shaken Peronism as it did not happen in a long time .

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