The cold greeting between President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Santa Fe governor Hermes Binner in the rally they shared in Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe, on Tuesday keeps triggering conflicts. Binner complained that he wasn’t allowed to talk and the Ceremonial area of the Government House dismissed the version. “The governor desisted from speaking in public,” they assured in a press release.
After the President’s speech, in which she launched the 2010 Industrial Plan, presidential candidate Binner wrote in his Twitter account that “they don’t want to hear us, they only listen to themselves,” and reiterated the call for dialogue he had expressed in a paid ad.
Today, the Ceremonial Office of the Government House released a statement saying that Binner’s speech was always expected and that the Governor desisted from speaking without giving any reasons.
“Yesterday morning, Santa Fe province Ceremonial director Nazira Ganem informed our protocol employee in Santa Fe. Darío Lucas, that Binner had chosen not to make a speech, without justifying his decision,” Government House Ceremonial head Rubén Zacarías said in a statement.
The fact that Zacarías, a long time Kirchnerite government official who usually keeps a low profile, replied to Binner’s tweets is unprecedented.
Soon after the launch of the 2020 Industrial plan was over, Binner complained about that the fact that he attended the rally knowing that “I wouldn’t be able to make a speech,” and added “they don’t want to listen to us, they only listen to themselves.”
“I once again call for a plural, open national dialogue with all political social actors,” he wrote on his official Twitter account and added- “every day, new incidents make the urgent need of a national dialogue more evident.”
Binner was reportedly going to speak before UIA Argentine Industrial Union leader José Ignacio de Mendiguren instead of doing it right before President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and thus decided not to speak at all during the rally.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald