The Minister of Tourism and Sports, Matías Lammens, affirmed that the Front of All (FdT) must “open the imagination, recover the initiative and propose a new dream” for the City of Buenos Aires, and considered that to win the elections in the Buenos Aires district, a political space “with ideas and new ideas” is required.
“After being in the opposition for 15 years, we need to open our imaginations and propose a new dream. We need new ideas and new approaches,” said Lammens when he headed the forum “The City Gives For More: Debates, challenges and ideas from Buenos Aires,” according to It was recorded in a party statement.
This meeting took place in the Nave Platform cultural space, located at Belisario Roldán 4415 in CABA, where representatives from the academic, cultural, trade union, business and political fields gave a diagnosis of the main problems facing the Buenos Aires district.
Throughout the day, “coincidences were expressed on the need to build a political and electoral alternative with the capacity to contest the 2023 elections in the City of Buenos Aires and end the exclusive government of the PRO,” spokesmen for this space indicated. .
“In addition to diagnosing and criticizing what the macrismo did to our city, it is time to think about what we did to have stayed where we are. We have a huge imagination problem to create new responses to old and new problems”Lammens remarked when presenting in this activity.
For his part, the leader of UPCN and Secretary of Institutional Relations of the Justicialist Party of CABA, Fernando Barrera considered that one of the challenges that a political force that intends to govern the City of Buenos Aires must face is how to “guarantee the right to the House”.
“We must think of a productive city that generates quality employment sustained by public and private investment. There is a debt in transportation planning. We believe that we must give these debates and challenge the men and women of Buenos Aires to constitute an alternative that builds a new city”Barrier remarked.
In the same sense, the General Secretary of the Evita Movement in CABA, Jonathan Thea, considered that “the debts of the City Government are visible, in the richest district of the country there is a long way to go for everyone to live well.”
“At the same time, the sectors of the opposition have to make a deep self-criticism, because in these years we have not been able to build an alternative that is capable of understanding what the people of Buenos Aires need and what they want. Those of us who are here today assume the challenge of to do it”, pointed out the leader of Evita.
During the day the panels “Urban environment. Habitat and socio-environmentalism”, “Getting to know the City: Education, Science and Technology”, “Enjoyment and public space”, “Porteño priorities. Can someone tell me where the money from my taxes goes?”, “Knowing the City: Education, Science and Technology”, “Buenos Aires Empowers: The Productive City that the country needs” and “Work in the SXXI”.
Also present at the forum were the president of the I+D+i Agency, Fernando Peirano; the general secretary of AMMAR, Geogina Orellano; the neighborhood leader Alejandro “Pitu” Salvatierra; the leader of the Young UIA, María Figueiras; the FdT legislators, Alejandro Amor, Manuel Socías, Claudia Neira, Juan Valdés and Laura Velasco; and the national director of Monitoring and Approach to Local Development of the Ministry of Social Development, Carolina Brandariz; the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UBA, Ricardo Manetti; the undersecretary of Quality, Accessibility and Sustainability of National Tourism, Inés Albergucci.
