The Auditor General of the Nation, Miguel Ángel Pichetto, launched his presidential candidacy for the 2023 elections with the space called Federal Republican Encounter, which is part of the so-called “Peronist leg” of the Together for Change (JxC) coalition.
“We are working on an alliance of parties to add to the proposal of Republican Peronism and to consolidate the unity of Together for Change,” Pichetto said in Parque Norte, where he launched.
In this sense, the former national senator assured that they have “a national space” that endorses this presentation, when referring to the adhesion of the National Autonomist Party of the Corrientes leader José Romero Feris.
Pichetto also announced that the space he leads holds talks with the Popular Conservative Party to join this proposal.
“This is not a personal adventure, it aims to channel the anxieties, the aspirations of many men and women of Peronism who are disappointed, frustrated by the destiny and reality of Argentina,” added the candidate.
In this sense, he reaffirmed: “If we have primaries in August, we will fully participate with all the strength and I will take the lead” to “broaden the base of the political coalition.”
FEDERAL REPUBLICAN MEETING
With a large gathering of leaders from all over the country, we present @ERFNacionalwhich will be the fourth structure to join JxC.
We have a vision of the country that we will take to the level of the debate with a view to the 2023 elections. pic.twitter.com/YhZ3usziC8– Miguel Ángel Pichetto (@MiguelPichetto) May 13, 2022
According to Pichetto, the slogan that will guide the Federal Republican Encounter will be “unity and identity” and said that his vision is to consolidate “a modern and intelligent capitalism” to “recover Argentina”.
Among the main objectives of the platform that he presented, the one to “build a harmonious relationship between the company and the workers” to “recover the world of work” stands out.
In that sense, he added that “it is iessential to modernize labor standards for young people who have to enter the labor market”.
In addition, the former candidate for vice president of Together for Change (JxC) said that it is necessary assume public education as an “essential service” what “cannot be subjected to pressure from unions nor to characters like (Roberto) Baradel”.
“There is no need to endorse the culture and ideology of poor people. Tax reform is needed“, and in terms of security, he proposed the creation of a federal agency specialized in the fight against drug trafficking, exclusive federal courts, special prisons in the south of the country with maximum security, and increased sentences.
In the act, they accompanied Pichetto as speakers the former provisional president of the Senate in charge of the Executive between December 21 and 23, 2001, Ramón Puerta; the national senator for the province of Salta Juan Carlos Romero; and the national deputy for the province of Misiones, Florencia Klipauka.
Party sources indicated that Pichetto’s launch as a candidate has the endorsement of former President Mauricio Macri and it would complete the list of JxC applicants who are presented by the different parties that make up the main opposition coalition: the PRO, the UCR, the Civic Coalition (CC) and the Republican Peronism.
Other coalition candidates
PRO He already has as possible candidates the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, and the former Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich, while Macri remains unknown regarding an eventual nomination of his.
from the UCR The national deputy Facundo Manes, the governor of Jujuy and head of the UCR, Gerardo Morales, and the national senator of the UCR for Mendoza, Alfredo Cornejo, are registered for the presidential race.
So far, heto DC did not show any presidential.
Pichetto, former candidate for vice president of Cambiemos in the binomial that Macri headed in 2019, is part of the JxC sector known as “hawks” and shows his ideological closeness to the former president and Bullrich, the head of the PRO.
The officialization of Pichetto’s candidacy takes place in a context of internal disputes within the coalition, with a sector of the PRO referenced in Rodríguez Larreta, who is in favor of advancing in “a great consensus” among the center-right spaces, as expressed this Tuesday by the head of the Buenos Aires Government at an Amcham meeting.
