Referents of the front of all warned that the coalition has to “stand up” to the challenges of this stage and not leave that the policies of adjustment and “hunger“, in reference to the management that led the former president Mauricio Macri and the positions expressed by Together for Change for 2023, including that of the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodriguez Larretawho manifested supporter of one “labour and pension reform”.
They also reaffirmed that the ruling party agrees that the country cannot be “handed over” to those who “led to the disaster of job losses and foreign debt,” when ruling on next year’s presidential elections.
This was expressed after this Monday, in statements made to radio Miter, the Mayor of Buenos Aires pointed out that, if elected president in 2023, will apply a labor and pension reformand warned that, for that, “change the legislation” is required.
In this framework, one of the voices that called for the need to strengthen the FdT was the Minister of Public Works, Gabriel Katopodiswho called on the coalition to “stand up” and not allowing “the worst adjustment policies” to return, warning that those who already ruled in Argentina, by the opposition conglomerate that accompanied Macri between 2015 and 2019, “come to raffle the country” if they win the 2023 elections.
“You have to put on the table what they are going to do if those who defend corporate interests in Argentina become the government again. They come to raffle the country from day one. The one who is saying that he wants to return (for Macri) is the one who applied the worst adjustment policies. We have to be up to that challenge and not leave people out in the open for those guys to govern the country,” the official said in statements made this morning to Radio 10.
Katopodis celebrated the summit of the Justicialist Party that took place over the weekend in Mendoza because, he said, it was an area where he could “hear all the leaders” of the coalition.
In this regard, he called for more spaces of this nature because a “stronger FdT” is needed.
“There is also a voice from the Interior that is important. I am traveling and there are no divisions there, no questions of differences appear, but rather the very clear conviction that any debate can be healthy for a coalition if it is to meet the objective of improving the people’s lives. If the debate serves so that the front (for the FdT) is more united and stronger in order to continue fighting against inflation and to recover the economy, that debate makes sense,” he stressed.
In addition, he expressed that he is interested in “working every day to generate policies that represent the interests of Argentines” and called for “having an open mind and understanding that for the transformations that Argentina needs, we need to expand the electoral base.”
“We must continue to strengthen the strategy. Every time we had discussions within four walls, it did not motivate us and we did not have the support of the people,” Katopodis completed.
Along the same lines, the deputy of the FdT and general secretary of the Workers’ CTA, Hugo Yaskystated that in the ruling party “everyone” agrees that You cannot “hand over the country” to those who “led to the disaster of hunger, loss of jobs and foreign debt”.
“We all agree that we cannot return the country to those who led us to the disaster of hunger, loss of jobs and foreign debt,” Yasky told Radio Nacional.
The union leader also highlighted that in the PJ plenary held in Mendoza last Saturday, the leaders representing all aspects of the FdT agreed that “there is a future” for the 2023 presidential elections.
And he also highlighted the “show of unity” of the sectors that participated in that meeting, where “the need for an opening” towards the dissidents was reaffirmed.
The activity, organized by Senator Anabel Fernández Sagasti (FdT-Mendoza), was convened under the slogan “Future Peronism.”
The legislator stressed that this meeting of Peronism “fills with air the lungs of those of us who believe that Argentina needs this political force to get out of this circle in which they put us of foreign debt, financial speculation, backwardness and inequality.”
“It was a very broad call and had a lot of content. This is an attempt to regroup to discuss ideas and clearly state that there is a dispute in which we cannot accept defeat in 2023. We cannot go with our heads down to a stage where for the right to rule the country again,” Yasky finally warned.
