“If Adorni comes to Congress, they are going to fill our faces with fingers”. Less than two weeks before the presentation of the management report that the Chief of Staff will make in the Chamber of Deputies, a sector of the ruling party does not understand the strategy of the Casa Rosada and recognizes that A misstep could seriously damage the image of the Government.
The decision to expose the chief minister to an extensive round of questions from the opposition is very risky. Even more so if, as rumored, the president Javier Milei decides to be present with his sister Karina in some of the boxes as a show of unrestricted support.
Management reports are a constitutional mandatebut It is common for Chiefs of Staff to fail to comply with his duty to appear before Congress once a month. Therefore, for many it would have been logical for Adorni to postpone his visit until the complaints of illicit enrichment are no longer on the covers of newspapers and portals.
Libertarians are aware that the opposition’s question time usually lasts several hours and Just one unfortunate phrase will be enough to reignite the controversy. Even more risky if between now and Wednesday the 29th the investigations in Justice progress. For example, in the last week the courts revealed that Adorni made trips to the Caribbean (Aruba) and Bariloche when he was already a civil servant.
In response to the query of Infobaefrom the leadership of the block they assured that no attempt will be made to sabotage the session. “Adorni comes because he has to come by constitutional mandate, there is no background. He comes to give the report, not to explain his procedural situation“They explained. However, they know that the opposition will seek to corner him. “We know it will be spicy, but historically it was like that,” they say to reduce the drama.
In the blocks of the opposition They speculate that Adorni will not be able to explain his increase in assets and anticipate that The only possible strategy of libertarians will be to “mud the field.” That is why they will seek to coordinate their actions so as not to enter into the game of the ruling party and prevent the session from getting unruly, so as not to give the Chief of Staff the possibility of retiring early.
In private, Some deputies from the LLA bloc recognize that the only possible move is to “make a mess and rot”. On the other hand, the sector identified with Karinism views with distrust the communication strategy designed by the consultant Santiago Caputo. Both sides no longer hide their internal tensions and even fight openly on social networks.
“Caputo with Adorni is playing backwards because he indirectly benefits from his wear and tear. Before all this scandal they were on their way to remove Caputo from the government and now it is not known what will happen. “We are shooting ourselves in the foot,” reflected a deputy, worried about the future of the scandal.
In fact, they blame Caputo for the second press conference in which Adorni addressed the issue. “I spend my money on what seems best to me.. And I’m not going to discuss my spending decisions with a journalist,” said the Chief of Staff on that occasion, far from quelling the scandal.
Within the official space, others interpret that Adorni should go to the Deputies to give explanations and show as quickly as possible that things are in order. Although they also recognize that “It is a very risky move, because a single bad sentence can make everything twice as bad.”.
The judicial developments of the next ten days and the outcome of Adorni’s visit to Congress will also define the steps to follow for the opposition. In the last session, when the reform of the glacier law was discussed, Peronism requested a departure from the regulations to include a draft questioning the Chief of Staff.
That vote failed but left libertarians worried. There were 124 affirmative votes, but two Peronist deputies and the former libertarian Marcela Pagano were absent, so the opposition is virtually two votes away from being able to move forward again with the interpellation in the future.
