A euphoric Rodriguez Saa dismissed Aileen Mazzina and said it was “great that they are watching San Luis”.

The governor of San Luis praised his former official, who tomorrow will take over the portfolio left by Gómez Alcorta; The young woman spoke of “replicating the San Luis model” in national politics

October 12, 202215:39

“These seven daysWith El Adolfo, they were wonderful. The highest point in St. Louis history. This is also beautiful, it lights up a very strong light,” said the governor Alberto Rodríguez StSeconds before the hug, already so many times and with a kiss on the forehead, Aileen MazinaUntil now, the official of the government of San Luis and elected by the president Alberto Fernandez As the new Minister for Women, Gender and Diversity.

“We took an oath, but the other way around,” the San Luis governor joked as the farewell, which included Mazzina’s resignation in public, etc., ended. An atmosphere of euphoria and excitement. The governor himself, who is in the last stage of his fourth term of office (his brother Adolfo Rodriguez StToday, a five-term senator from whom he is estranged), shed a few tears at the end of the act, which was attended by San Luis government officials and representatives of sexual minorities. Women of San Luis.

“It’s great that they’re looking at San Luis,” said the provincial president, who is not up for re-election (he was limited by plebiscite years ago). for different opponents, Mazzina allows you to reach the youth, a sector that was misunderstood in the last electionAnd perhaps the projection of a young official as part of a formula for maintaining the power that the Rodríguez Saa family has held for four decades.

A talkative and good-natured Rodriguez Saa recounted the details of a call from President Alberto Fernandez in which he “warned” him that he was considering Mazzina to take over. Elizabeth Gomez Alcortawho resigned from his position between Thursday and last Friday, due to the rejection of the reaction of the Minister of Security, Hannibal FernandezBefore land confiscation in Patagonia.

“I was watching football and I was told that the president called me”, he counted, he was having fun, the governor. “He told me he had extraordinary clues. and i told him Look that (Mazina) has faith, with the Mapuche community, with Milagro Sala. And he said, I’m banking on them,” the governor said before breaking off to loud applause.

When it was his turn to speak, Mazzina reiterated some of the concepts of praise for the governor he revealed in an interview Monday. Republican magazine, the only written medium in the province and owned by the ruling family. “I want to repeat the San Luis model“- said the future minister and repeated: “I did not come here by chance, this is recognition for the whole land of San Luis”. On the day of her appointment, Mazina was responsible for organizing a multinational women’s meeting in her province, which she also attended. Victoria Tolosa Pazwho hastily returned to Buenos Aires to take up the post of new Minister of Social Development.

Mazina did not forget to greet her mother Antonia “Tonna” SalinoHis “second mother”, the ex-wife of Rodríguez Saa and several times a provincial official in the field of women’s rights.

“There’s no envy with Aielen, it’s all positive,” the governor said in a fatherly tone, talking about the “small-town-based” feeling that he said brought “joy and emotion” on this occasion. It all ended with a video featuring pictures of Mazina himself, with music by Abel Pintos and Mercedes Sosa, before receiving renewed congratulations.

Far from that hectic week of December 2001, when Adolfo Rodriguez St He assumed the presidency after the fall Fernando de la RuaThe governor of San Luis described Mazina’s appointment as “historic” for his province. Mazzina, only 33, will have admirers from San Luis tomorrow at 12 noon in the open air and in front of the Casa Rosada, when the president himself will be sworn in as the new Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity.