Ministers and government officials together with intellectuals linked to national and progressive thought ratified in Rosario during an act of the National Militancy Current the unity of the Front for All (FdT) and highlighted the achievements of the administration of President Alberto Fernández, to the time they called to deepen official policies and “mobilize the militancy” because, they stated, “2023 is possible for the national and popular movement in Argentina.”
With former Minister of Defense Agustín Rossi as hostmembers of the Government spoke about the present and the future of the country, spoke with the attendees and called for the creation of conditions “so that neoliberalism will never again rule in Argentina.”
During the day they were in Rosario the legal and technical secretary of the Presidency, Vilma Ibarra; the Minister of Territorial Development and Habitat, Jorge Ferraresi; his peer from Social Development, Juan Zabaleta; and the Secretary of International Economic Relations, Cecilia Todesca, while Matías Kulfas, of Productive Development, participated remotelyby the Zoom platform.
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In his presentation, Zabaleta assured that the ruling party “is on its feet” and harangued those present with the proposition that Argentine society “does not want to go back” and once again elect a government of Together for Change, for which he urged “not to speculate” .
“This is not the time to speculate, it is time to clench our teeth and move forward, because there is hope”insisted the head of Social Development.
The minister called on the members of the ruling coalition not to continue “bumping each other with arguments among us,” after which he asked the ruling party leadership to speak “to the Argentines” and leave the intramural debates of the FdT.
Regarding the electoral expectations for next year, Zabaleta said that “there is 2023 if we manage to make Argentines live better this year; that is the challenge.”
For its part, Ferraresi held that “The priority is how we find a common agenda where the FdT has concrete unity”and added that “the first task is to recover the conviction of building a government that has a projection in 2023.”
“That is our responsibility and our militant commitment: never again neoliberalism in Argentina,” he added.
At the head of the Secretariat of International Economic Relations, the economist Todesca considered that the pro-government front needs “not only unity, but cohesion” and “believe that we have the possibility of doing it and we can do it.”
“We can discuss, I believe that there is no single way out of the problems, and we have made mistakes. But it is not possible to identify a single measure of the national government that has gone against Argentine production and work”he declaimed in his presentation, and clarified that “we are all aware in the Government of what is missing”.
To its turn, Kulfas admitted that “we are experiencing a difficult moment” but stated that “The path is that of national production and work with criteria of distributive equity and social justice”when presenting by videoconference.
“Let’s not be fooled by false colored mirrors, that dollarization, that with labor reforms that make the labor market more flexible and take away rights, is the path to reactivate,” Kulfas said, to remember that this path “we have already experienced in the Argentina”.
For the minister, “the way is to produce more, create adequate work and work with criteria of distributive equity and social justice, which are the values of our movement.”
In his presentation, Kulfas pointed out that “of the 48 months that Mauricio Macri ruled, in 46 industrial jobs were destroyed and close to 20,000 SMEs were closed, while 170,000 industrial jobs were destroyed.”
“This was not the work of chance or an external phenomenon -he remarked-, but it had to do with an economic model that turned its back on the productive sector, which opted for financial speculation.”
The legal and technical secretariat of the Presidency also participated in the meeting, although it had not been announced.
Ibarra He clarified that he had not spoken before such an audience for a long time: “The militancy that is here came to defend something that is very important to them: we have a very important commitment, to close down neoliberal policies”Held.
The official, at that point, considered that “we came to close that and the second challenge is to build a more inclusive society.”
At the same time, he maintained that “those who built this tool (for the FdT) that we came to defend, are united by their commitments to society, by what they said they were going to do together and by the objectives that we have to meet.”
“There is 2023,” Ibarra reiterated, paraphrasing a slogan that became popular in 2019, when the need to build an alliance to defeat Mauricio Macri was outlined.
Regarding the objectives for this stage, he called on the attendees to abandon pessimism, because “we have to do what we said we came to do and build a more just and egalitarian society.”
Ibarra, in a train of warnings, said that “what is coming, if we don’t do it, is an overloaded right wing; they come to dismantle the State, to end its tools and further weaken the State so that it cannot intervene and the market always send.”
Along these lines, the Legal and Technical Secretary called for building “in unity, back to back, and fighting for people to live better.”
Lastly, he argued: “Let’s discuss what we have to discuss, we have a debt with society and 2023 has to be ours, because if it is not the defeat of politics, the State and the Argentine people”.
The last speaker at the event, which brought together more than two thousand people in the Patio de la Madera in Rosario, was rossiformer Minister of Defense and referent of La Corriente.
Paraphrasing the President, he maintained that “It is clear that with unity alone it is not enough, but without unity it is not possible. It is a value in itself, more so for the Peronists”.
Rossi stressed that “the reflection is done with the people in the street and the mobilized militancy”, and called for “stop looking at the navel and re-commit ourselves to the whole of our people, starting with those from below”.
For that, he maintained, it is necessary to “assume that we may have differences, but we have many more differences with the others” and called for building “electoral power so that in 2023 neoliberalism will not rule again in Argentina.”
The former official urged the militancy to come out and say that “we are proud of the government of Alberto Fernández and Cristina’s leadership, of being part of the Frente de Todos,” and to persuade the electorate that “the solutions of the people are achieved with Peronism in the Government”.
