The leader of Patria Grande, John Graboissaid this Thursday that the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof“is the hope to build a synthesis that surpasses the national and popular processes” and to deepen the “floor of rights”, during the presentation of his book “Los Peores” in the city of La Plata.
“Axel is a hope that we have to build an overcoming synthesis of the national and popular processes of the first decades of the 21st century.“, said the social leader when taking the floor and added: “Achieving that so difficult in Latin America and Argentina, something that (Juan Domingo) Perón could not and hopefully Cristina (Fernández de Kirchner) can, which is to build a water transfer and a generational change that overcomes and deepens the floors of rights of the previous stage”.
“I think Axel embodies that possibility, that power that can be given, we have some elements of hope there” Grabois said.
The expressions of the leader of Great Homeland They were dumped this Thursday in a crowded gym of the Club Platense de La Plata, where militants from Patria Grande, UTEP, Buenos Aires cabinet officials, national legislators and local leaders arrived.
The first to speak was Kicillof, who said that the book raises “deep discussions on important issues” and he listed different conceptual levels of the work, such as “the author’s needs to communicate, for example, refute accusations about his person; conjunctural discussions, current affairs, and deep, historical issues, about the current stage of capitalism.”
In this sense, he stressed that there were “characterizations” with which he did not agree and explained that Grabois believes that “in the current stage of capitalism a part of the population will tend to end up permanently excluded from the formal labor markets “.
“In political power, popular power there is an integrality between political militancy and popular power, but that integrality is not linear, it is complex” John Grabois
“I do not agree with this diagnosis because for him we are in a permanent, progressive stage of expulsion of workers from the formal work circuits,” Kiciillof said and clarified that he does not deny “that there are excluded workers”, but considered that it could be ” a stage”.
The Buenos Aires governor considered that It is a “very brave book” that “acknowledges criticism, errors, does not entrench itself in the blind defense of issues that need to be reviewed; it is an essential book”said.
For his part, Grabois stressed that “if one has a clear hypothesis of where the world is headed, you cannot twist destiny; hypotheses are essential because we waste time managing what exists, which is very ugly.”
“In political power, popular power there is an integrality between political militancy and popular power, but that integrality is not linear, it is complex”added the leader and stressed that “political power at a higher level suffers more encapsulation, it loses contact with reality” and as an example he cited Pope Francis and pointed out: “It is a debt of the militancy to find an integrality”.
Grabois further clarified that It is not that he is asking for a universal salary because he does not agree to transform social plans, but rather that he indicated that he denies “the consistency of that sentence.”
“What they call plans is part of the income of people who are already working. It is a demagogic slogan that stigmatizes the colleagues who work because it is electorally profitable,” he said.
Kicillof, meanwhile, considered that “the project of classic Peronism, despite the change and the passage of time, is allsea immense masses of wealth and apply them to the improvement of working and productive conditions in the country“.
With @Kicillofok We seriously debate -without coaching or set phrases- about some issues that affect our country and people. We need to get out of the thermos and microdisputes. Recover greatness of mind and spirit in public discussion. This was an attempt. I hope it works. pic.twitter.com/7RewHRjGZc
– Juan Grabois (@JuanGrabois) February 24, 2023
“I am not resigned to thinking that the current situation of injustice, of exclusion, that the neoliberal disaster is natural,” he indicated in opposition to the hypothesis raised by Grabois.
“They have made us believe that all we need is a chimera, it is inaccessible,” he said, citing eva duarteindicated: “Where there is a need, a right is born and those of us with responsibilities before that there is an obligation.”
In line with a position that he has been disclosing, Kicillof indicated that this year “We have to find the best proposal and resolve what we want: if we want the right or the rights.”
During his presentation, the Buenos Aires governor also thanked and acknowledged that during the management of Mauricio Macri and María Eugenia Vidal the sector “organized, annoyed and fought for their rights.”
The expressions were appreciated by the leader of Patria Grande, who, in the face of criticism for the negotiations with the previous management, indicated: “As an organization, as an organized community, faced with a state governed by a project that is antagonistic to our interests, we obviously negotiate.”
“In negotiations, the problem is not who you sit with, but what interests you represent at that table: if they are those of the people or their own. I sit with anyone, but I know what I represent,” he launched.
In addition, he highlighted the role of Kicillof in the recovery of YPF and stated that “It is a very intelligent model because it is a company with private capital, but only 49%; the gold share is held by the people“, he said and called to apply it in companies like “Edesur, Edenor, with the national lithium company, with all the main strategic sources and it would change everything.”
Grabois also spoke of the need for land and housing and assured that “as a candidate for president, in five years we will solve the million and a half productive lots and farms that the country needs so that everyone has land and the possibility of a roof.”
Finally, he indicated that he had spoken with the national deputy Máximo Kirchner about power and stressed that the president of the PJ indicated that “power does not change you, it reveals what you are.”
“Then there is the siren’s song, which appears in the Odyssey. There Ulysses tied himself to a post and I believe that the post to which any man or woman with power has to be tied is to the people or the country,” he pointed out and said not wanting his generation to accept that “the limit of the possible” is someone “who does not make the reforms that must be made.”
Along these lines, he stressed that the Buenos Aires governor “has to bank this stop” in reference to the province of Buenos Aires and added: “But Axel is not the only one who does not fall for the siren songs and his convictions are firm, there are several of us. I am one of those who signed up and I hope many more will sign up.”
