The national deputy for the Radical Civic Union (UCR) Facundo Manes said on Tuesday that “radicalism has a historical role” within Argentine political life and, in an internal message to his PRO partners within Together for Change (JxC ), affirmed that “society needs a radical party that is not a tail van of anything, that leads a new coalition including the popular sectors”.
“We have to recover our self-esteem, feel on an equal footing with the PRO. I invite all popular sectors to understand this”Manes said in statements made to Radio 10.
In a message to the opposition coalition JxC, Manes stressed that “radicalism has a historical role and society needs a radical party that is not a tail van of anything, that leads a new coalition including the popular sectors.”
In addition, he highlighted the need to “shelter many Peronists who are disenchanted, many popular sectors, and young people who will never vote for PRO.”
“Our space was renewed, we have governors, mayors, deputies and senators, councilors. The UCR understood that it can summon a new social majority to expand to sectors that did not vote for us, who stopped voting for us or young people who vote for the first time “
The neurosurgeon analyzed that “political parties do not have the divine right to exist if they do not seek power, if they do not renew themselves, if they do not look for new people, if they do not speak to the youth, the workers and the popular sectors.”
In this framework, he reasoned that “radicalism is a party that was born and sought power in the fight for the most dispossessed” and considered that currently the Buenos Aires UCR “rose up and is calling for national radicalism to go for power, to understand the times” given that “Argentina needs a new radicalism that can summon a large majority”.
“Our space was renewed, we have governors, mayors, deputies and senators, councilors. The UCR understood that it can summon a new social majority to expand to sectors that did not vote for us, who stopped voting for us or young people who vote for the first time ” Manes asserted.
For the legislator, “the new radicalism does not represent antinomies, nor intense minorities, and it can win an election to transform Argentina”for which he evaluated: “it is our historical duty to recover the popular flags of radicalism and go for power.”
Later, the legislator expressed that on the street he feels “great affection” from the people, who ask him “not to loosen up, because they know that there is a professional political elite and a political apparatus” that wants to “isolate” him, and He stated that he goes “against the corporation and the decadent system, full of privileges for a few while the majority does not make ends meet.”
Manes was also consulted about his candidacy for president within the Juntos por el Cambio space and although he acknowledged that he is “building a presidential candidacy among many,” he stressed that “it is not a personal whim.”
“We are going to be until the end and we are going to have an option in the STEP, but this is not the time to talk about candidacies, but rather to listen to a society that is apathetic, a bit resigned and sad, calling for a new epic. That is the role of radicalism today “, he said and added:” With the antinomies we are not going to transform Argentina “.
