The Barrios de Pie organization closed this Sunday at the former Esma its National Meeting of delegates and militants from all over the country with a message from President Alberto Fernández, who He highlighted that the government created 1,300,000 jobs and called for the generation of “more formal work.”
“I would have loved to be able to accompany them, but I am not in Buenos Aires. So I preferred not to be absent from this meeting and leave you this message. It is a message where first of all I thank you for the commitment, the accompaniment”Fernandez expressed through a video that was broadcast during the closing of the meeting.
The head of state pointed out that “very difficult years were experienced in Argentina and in the world,” and stated: “We are going to be a government that in its first two years endured a pandemic and in its second two years endured a war that put crisis the world’s energy system and food security”.
Along these lines, he recalled that the Frente de Todos was born “with a political culture that forces us to be close to those who have the least”, and “pay attention to those who are most affected by reality”.
“This is what I said the same day I took office: ‘First the last’. Those who need the most are the ones we must take care of first,” assured the president, and highlighted “the work of Barrios de Pie, of beloved Chuki (Daniel Menéndez )”.
The head of state said he valued “all that effort” as well as “the political commitment” with the government and promised to “raise our heads little by little.”
Finally, the President stated: “We have created 1,300,000 jobs”, but warned that “More work must be created and more formal work must be created so that all workers in Argentina can enjoy the rights that Argentine law recognizes for those who work.”
The National Meeting was held between Thursday and this Sunday in the Memory and Human Rights Space (former ESMA) with the aim of “exchange and build collective views on the challenges of popular movements”reported Barrios de Pie.
We continue debating at the national meeting!
? This is how we close the third day of the meeting, a pure exchange in commissions between colleagues from all over the country ??
With the challenge of strengthening popular organization to build an Argentina with everyone and for everyone ✌? pic.twitter.com/BO4tS7BVUV
– We are BarriosdePie (@BarriosDePieOk) November 12, 2022
Other messages for Barrios de Pie
The Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, also sent his regards to the social organization, which also had the presence at the event of the co-secretary general of the CGT Héctor Daer; the Minister of Social Development, Victoria Tolosa Paz, and the Mayor of Avellaneda, Jorge Ferraresi.
For his part, Daniel Menéndez called for “a step of vital importance” to be taken with the “urgent institutionalization of the Frente de Todos.”
“We are also very dismayed by the attempted assassination of our vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the hate speech widespread in society,” he said.
In that sense, he indicated that it is “It is vital that the political tool that made it possible to defeat macrismo in the last presidential elections send signs of maturity to the whole of society, which confidently handed over the popular mandate“.
“It is useless for the different sectors that are part of the Front to pull each one to their own side since the current situation in our country demands that we have more responsibility,” Menéndez said.
Likewise, the leader of Barrios de Pie called for “recomposing the idea of the future and disputing that sense to the right.”
“Today from the right they have succeeded in questioning society with the idea of no future or that everything that comes forward is a disaster. In addition to being totally removed from reality, it operates as a political tactic to dismantle to the national and popular field,” he said.
In this regard, he assured that “today there are already many indicators that show how the country is beginning a recovery path and an economic boom based on the growth of exports driven by the lithium industry and Vaca Muerta, among others.”
“In the future, Argentina will undoubtedly be a better country, totally removed from the apocalyptic fantasies of macrismo and libertarians. Disputing that sense of the future in society and recovering the generation of positive expectations is key“, complete.
The meeting was also accompanied by leaders of social organizations that are part of UTEP, such as Juan Grabois and Dina Sánchez; the Secretary of Social Economy of the Nation, Emilio Pérsico, and national deputies such as Daniel Arroyo, Sergio Palazzo, Mónica Macha, Natalia Zaracho and Natalia Souto; among others.
