President Alberto Fernández reiterated this Friday his call for “the utopia of equality” and called for “more unity than ever” in the Frente de Todos by leading an act in Berazategui, days after the meeting of the ruling party’s political table in the which will outline the electoral strategy.
“Taking care of democracy is not enough, we have to go for something more, we need to have a new utopia, the utopia of equality, the utopia of social justice, that everyone has the opportunity to grow and develop in every corner of the country,” he said. the President speaking this morning at the Roberto De Vicenzo de Berazategui Activities Center, in the south of the Buenos Aires suburbs.
Accompanied by the mayor Juan José Mussi, the vice-governor Verónica Magario and the ministers Victoria Tolosa Paz; Gabriel Katopodis and Jaime Perczyk, the President delivered school furniture to equip classrooms and sports equipment to strengthen neighborhood clubs at the Roberto De Vicenzo de Berazategui Activities Center, and also signed an agreement to build a headquarters for the Arturo Jauretche National University (UNAJ ) in the district.
Days before the meeting that he called for February 16 and in which the Frente de Todos will discuss its electoral strategy for this year’s elections, Alberto Fernández called for the unity of Peronism: “Comrades, more unity than ever.”
Recalling the words of Juan Domingo Perón, the President said that “we have to be united so that the enemies of the country do not take power; Perón wrote it and it is in force.”
“We can discuss and have differences, what we cannot is divide,” said the head of state.
“Antonio Cafiero – recalled the President – used to say that ‘Whoever dreams alone only dreams, but whoever dreams with others changes reality”.
“Dream with me, don’t leave me dreaming alone, let’s give each Argentine what is due to him, and to the compañeros and compañeras, unity”, affirmed the President in one of the final stretches of his speech.
After signing the agreement to build a new UNAJ headquarters, Fernández defended in his speech the creation of public universities in the Buenos Aires suburbs and the interior of the country and highlighted the importance of “being able to study in the place where each Argentine lives”.
“How can we deprive that Argentina of the right to study, to have a future? How not to take advantage of the desire to learn? If we Buenos Aires had that privilege, why won’t Argentines in every corner of the country have it? I don’t believe that that some say that the children of the poor are condemned to poverty,” said the president.
The signed agreement contemplates the financing of the construction project of a UNAJ headquarters in the Technological Industrial Park of Berazategui.
The project includes a 1,000 m2 building with an estimated investment of more than 650 million pesos. It will have 12 laboratory classrooms with an estimated capacity of 40 students each, and a 400 m2 Multipurpose Room (SUM).
In total, the Ministry of Public Works has 17 works in progress in the district for $9,098 million, in addition to 15 projects and works to be tendered for $3,310 million, and 18 completed works for $2,122 million.
In his speech, Fernández also defended many of the measures taken during his administration and said in this regard that during the pandemic “we said that we were going to support jobs so that when the pandemic passes, companies can continue producing.”
“There are more than 100,000 Argentines who were left on the road,” he said when remembering the fatalities of the coronavirus pandemic, noting that “11 million Argentines fell ill along the way, and we saved the lives of more than 10 millions of Argentines because we built hospitals, we took respirators to every corner and the health system stood up”.
In this regard, he pointed out that “there was not a single Argentine who was left without medical attention, and that is a source of pride for all of us.”
“We should have made mistakes, but the mistakes we made were never to the detriment of the people,” he analyzed.
When evaluating the progress of the economy, he affirmed that “Argentina grew by 16 percent, which makes us the second country in the world that has grown the most in recent years; only China surpasses us in economic growth.”
“We have been creating formal employment for 23 months, we have created 1,600,000 jobs. When we arrived, construction had 200,000 workers and today it has 460,000, and that is the result of the 5,800 public works we are undertaking, of which we have already delivered 2,800,” manifested.
After indicating that by the end of March the Government will have delivered 100,000 homes, he indicated that “the State has to be present, because the market does not solve everything, the State has to be there to help those who need it most.”
The president maintained that the government carried out “plans that meant an enormous improvement for the people, although the newspapers do not publish it.”
“The covers of some newspapers that I suffer today were already suffered by Alfonsín,” he said in this regard, and recalled his time as a student militant “when we had the utopia that democracy would live forever.”
To end his speech, he said that “this is how the country is built, without fighting, without disuniting ourselves.”
“Increasingly I hear the murmur of the people, the students, the workers, the industrialists, and less the noise of politics, because the truth of Argentina is there and we must pay attention to it,” he said in closing of the act.
