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sandensea

(22,850 posts)
2. I remember it well.
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 06:58 PM
Dec 2017

Macri was a real stinker about it.

Much of the fiasco surrounding the inaugural was caused by his Ecuadorian astrologer, Shirley Barahona (currently on the public payroll), who advised Macri to insist on having it held somewhere other than his predecessor, with a different baton and notary, and at Midnight of December 10.

Argentina's constitution, of course, stipulates that inaugurals should held at Noon and in Congress with all congressmen and senators assembled.

But there was a problem: auspicious Jupiter was 'rising' at Midnight that day (Nancy Reagan, famously, sweet-talked a judge to swear Ronnie in as governor at 2 a.m. for the same reason back in 1967).

The only chance Macri had to get his way, was to make the biggest fuss possible in order to pressure Cristina Kirchner to let him have his way - hence all the fracas.

But it worked: Mrs. Kirchner obliged, and stepped down 12 hours early. The courts, however, insisted that constitutional norms be respected, and Macri was forced to take office at Noon.

And the guy who was actually sworn in as interim president at Midnight, with Jupiter rising? Keep an eye on him: He (Federico Pinedo) was named President of the Senate, and as such would take office if Macri and "Jewels" Michetti are forced out by a crisis of their own making.

The way he's taking on foreign debt, Argentina's going to need all the rising Jupiters and incense in the world to get out of this one.

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