The Partido Obrero (PO), a member of the Left-Unity Front (FIT-U), proclaimed this Saturday Gabriel Solano as a pre-candidate for president of the Nation for the next elections and Romina del Plá as vice-presidential candidatein a national plenary that the space held in the Lanús micro-stadium, in the province of Buenos Aires.
The OP too proclaimed the candidacies of Néstor Pitrola as governor of the province of Buenos Aires and Vanina Biasi for the Headquarters of Government of the City of Buenos Aires.
In the meeting, in which the space proclaimed the pre-candidacies of the Partido Obrero for the lists of the Left Front, Solano asked that “we all call together an Open Congress of the Left-Unity Front so that thousands and thousands of fighters from all over the country can participate.”
In that sense, he said that this call will be “to promote the struggles that are coming and discuss and organize the participation in the electoral campaign, defining the program and the candidates”.
On the other hand, he held that “Argentina is going through a fundamental crisis, for which all political forces are responsible. who have governed the country” and stated that “40 years after the return of democracy and more than 20 after the 2001 crisis, the need to throw out all the capitalist politicians and fight for a government of the left and the workers is reinforced “.
He also stated that “This great crisis challenges the left, above all because there is a danger that the enormous and justified popular discontent is channeled by a reactionary right like Milei, Espert or Patricia Bullrich”.
“That is why we need a left that stands up, that fights, that fights, that is independent of the politicians of the system, not a light left that is satisfied with getting one more parliamentary seat,” said Solano.
Along these lines, he spoke out in favor of “a left that expresses the deepest aspirations and struggles of those exploited and wronged by this system” and said that It must be “an absolutely independent left from both Macrismo and Kirchnerism.”
Pitrola, for his part, stated that “The province is boiling, we will be the expression of the enormous popular anger” and said that the PO “is launching a great campaign so that the Left Front stands up against all capitalist politicians.”
“The rebellion is from the left and for that we must overcome all the variants of Peronism and macrismo,” he said.
Besides, the national deputy of the Socialist Left, Juan Carlos Giordano, spoke out in a statement against “the division of the FIT-U in the PASO” and “for a unitary formula: Bregman-Solano.”
“From the Socialist Left, a founding member of the Left Front since 2011, We are against the division of the FIT-U presenting different presidential formulas for the PASO”, the legislator maintained in a text that he disseminated.
Along these lines, he reiterated his “discordant position with the other three parties of the Left Front and the Workers-Unit (FIT-U) that each party has launched its own presidential formula for said elections”.
At the same time, The national leader of the PTS, Christian Castillo, affirmed that the PO “ratifies a movement orientation where the construction of the revolutionary left is reduced.” to “intervention in a protest movement such as the piquetero movement, increasingly dissolving the Partido Obrero in the Polo Obrero, which has led them to stop intervening in numerous fields of struggle.”
“The main candidates that they propose, starting with the presidential formula, They are not referents that emerged from that movement but rather the traditional leaders of the Partido Obrero”Castillo warned in a statement.
And he pointed out that “the proposal that we have already criticized in a ´popular movement with socialist banners´ is the concretion of a truly ´light´ strategy for the left, disappearing the working class as the leading and central subject of social emancipation”.
