In the midst of the crisis of the Frente de Todos, Martín Insaurralde joins mayors and shows himself as shipowner of the Buenos Aires PJ

Since he came to the Cabinet Headquarters of the province of Buenos Aires, Martín Insaurralde, has been accumulating his own power in the Buenos Aires scheme of the All Front. For a few weeks, he defined a series of tours of the provincial territory - and to visit important offices - to show Buenos Aires management, but also to account for his role as shipowner within Peronism. Everything, in the midst of the internal government in which the mayor in use of license of Lomas de Zamora tries to be one of the guarantors of unity so that the sparks of the governing coalition do not fall in the province of Buenos Aires to the second layer of power as are the mayors.

The Chief of Staff doesn't move alone. On each tour he is usually accompanied by mayors and provincial legislators. However, the lomense also functioned as an interlocutor with the opposition. The important mayors of Juntos maintain a dialogue - not disseminated - with the Chief of Cabinet e. The last talks were about management in security and economy and also “governance” in the Buenos Aires Legislature through his bishop, the president of the Buenos Aires Chamber of Deputies Federico Otermín. The last request of the mayors is to move forward with the transfer of the Local Police to the municipal sphere, something that - they say - the chief of staff himself understands.

Last week, Insaurralde went to the Expoagro exhibition and toured the Banco Provincia stand. He arrived in San Nicolás with a visible delegation made up of the president of the Bapro Group and mayor in use of Merlo's license, Gustavo Menéndez, Buenos Aires legislators and senators. At Expoagro he also held a brief meeting with some Buenos Aires opposition leaders such as the president of the Juntos bloc in the Buenos Aires Chamber of Deputies, Maximiliano Abad; the Buenos Aires Minister of Government, Jorge Macri or the provincial senator and former mayor of San Miguel, Joaquín de la Torre.

“Martín is an actor known to the PJ and who was a candidate for national deputy. It makes sense that he has been elected Chief of Staff and that now with the pandemic in the background he goes out to tour the districts,” a Buenos Aires leader who usually accompanies him on the tours tells Infobae. As this media learned, the plan is for Insaurralde to continue to accompany ministers in various activities. “Being Chief of Staff is not only the coordination of ministries, it is also about doing politics and he does it,” says a mayor who sits at the table of the Buenos Aires PJ and differentiates it from his predecessor Carlos Bianco. “The moment did not allow Carli -Bianco- to go around: the message we were saying from the government was that meetings should be avoided. In that context it became difficult for him,” compares the same mayor, who for now does not place Insaurralde in the race for governor in 2023. Today that place seems to be for Axel Kicillof, although if the Buenos Aires president will not be from the party, Insaurralde's shares rise.

In addition to Expoagro, Insaurralde was days ago in San Pedro and Baradero, in the Second Electoral Section. These are two districts governed by mayors of the All Front. Together with the minister of infrastructure and public services of the province (another mayor in use of a license) Leonardo Nardini, they toured works on Provincial Route 191 and then, in Baradero, they led a summit with the mayors Iván Villagrán (Carmen de Areco), Ricardo Casi (Colón), Ramón Salazar (San Pedro), Diego Eduardo Nanni (Exaltation of the Cross), Osvaldo Cáffaro (Zárate) Ricardo Alessandro (Salto); and the host and also member of the SMATA guild, Esteban Sanzio, all from the Second Electoral Section.

That meeting was also a signal to the interior of the ruling party. It happened at a time when the ruling party creaks in an internal rage and whose last chapter was exposed with the vote divided by the agreement with the Fund. At the meeting there were mayors of La Campora, the labor movement, the Frente Grande and the more traditional PJ. Everyone at the same table.

Although the relationship with Máximo Kirchner, whom he promoted for the leadership of the Buenos Aires PJ, remains fluid and of articulated political work, it is also shown close to President Alberto Fernández, as he did this Tuesday when he participated in the inauguration of the works at Tortuguitas station on the railway line Belgrano Norte, in the Buenos Aires Municipality of Malvinas Argentinas.

Prior to the session of the agreement with the IMF, Insaurralde was in the Senate of the Nation, a territory where Vice-President Cristina Kirchner commands. Insaurralde is called upon by the condition that he is one of the few mayors who talks without too many intermediaries with the vice-president. A day earlier, the one who had passed through the office of the former president had been the provincial governor himself, who had already carried out the analysis of the impact that the vote in favor of the agreement with the IMF will have and whose balance - they say in their environment - is not positive.

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