In Deputies, the Cabinet chief accused the camp of having started political violence in the country in 2008

Loose of body, ironic and sparing no criticism of Together for Change, Justice and the media, the brand new Chief of Staff, Augustine Rossi, made his debut in the Chamber of Deputies with a fiery partisan speech in which he emphasized that the political violence in Argentina began with the crisis in the countryside in 2008 and worsened last year, with the attempted murder of Vice President Cristina Kirchner . In this sense, he reproached the opposition for not having condemned the attack more forcefully.

“Unfortunately, last year political violence returned to Argentina with the attempted assassination of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. This act of political violence would have deserved a more forceful response from the entire leadership”, said Rossi, which unleashed fervent applause from his bench and shouts of protest from the opponents.

Rossi, with a half smile, responded jokingly. “We are still waiting for the sentence of the president of your party,” he told the deputy of Pro Hernan Lombardiin reference to Patricia Bullrich.

Rossi appears before the Lower House – a venue he knows well because he was the head of the ruling party block for eight years – to give his first report on the management; however, he avoided referring there to the most stinging issues, such as the rise in inflation, the exchange crisis and the dramatic drop in the Central Bank’s reserves. He also made no mention in his report of insecurity or the advance of drug trafficking. On the contrary, the official dedicated most of his message to attacking the opposition, which raised the spirits of the Juntos por el Cambio bench.

“The truth is that I thought he came with a calm speech. Look how I put them ”, he dispatched, amused.

Far from presenting a “calm speech”, Rossi spurred opponents by vindicating the most criticized policies of the government of Alberto Fernandez and the “lawfare” speech endorsed by Vice President Cristina Kirchner. praised the management of the company Argentinian airlines –criticized opponents for trying to establish a policy of “open skies” in the country-; He highlighted the human rights policy – “In a sector of Argentine politics, the word ‘dictatorship’ is never read or heard,” he said – and attacked the media for “stigmatizing and propagating hate speech.”

“Human rights are not a gig. A job is those who do not want to recognize the 30,000 disappeared because they do not dare to condemn the coup d’état of March 24, 1976,” said the chief of staff, alluding to the former president Mauricio Macri.

Rossi pointed, immediately afterwards, against the libertarians. “Right-wing extremism exists in Argentina. What happened with Cristina Kirchner is not the product of chance. If you stick with that, you’re wrong. For it to have existed, there was a hate speech campaign before”, he emphasized. “That campaign began with the crisis in the countryside in 2008,” she asserted, and then lashed out at the opposition media, which he accused of “delegitimizing certain leaders and political spaces.”

It was then that he displayed a poster with a printed note from the Clarín newspaper entitled “The bullet that did not come out and the failure that will come out.” “This is a criminal act,” he charged.

When he finished his message, the deputy Jose Luis Espert, from Avanza Libertad, accused Rossi of “cheekiness”. Outraged, he said: “You are not ashamed: you talk about numbers brought from the hair on top, you fart us. Don’t play the canchero, cheeky. You didn’t talk about inflation.” “No one has ever insulted me so much. It will be because of the fascistoid way that you have of doing politics, ”Rossi retorted.

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