The main references of radicalism met yesterday at Santa Fe to try to order the different internal stressesespecially promoting the reunification of the Chamber of Deputies bloc, but also to give a message of strength in the midst of you bid with the PRO by the different spaces of power in the opposition coalition, ahead of the 2023 elections.
The meeting was called by Gerardo Morales as head of the party’s National Committee, and also in his role as presidential candidate for next year’s elections.
“We have to have a federal agenda and a project from the bottom up. The next President is going to be a radical. We are a management party. Don’t let them run away with the fact that we don’t know how to govern. Have confidence in yourselves,” Morales emphatically told the party representatives gathered yesterday in the Madero Norte room, located on Dock 1 of the Santa Fe port.
By way of conclusion of the meeting, Morales assessed that “radicalism it strengthens” and that from the centenary party they are going to seek “to defend a federal agenda that builds with other forces a serious proposal for Argentina”, as published on his Twitter account on Friday night.
Intense day in Santa Fe where radicalism is strengthened. From the @UCRNacional We are going to defend a federal agenda that builds, with other forces, a serious proposal for Argentina.
We are a management party, we know how to govern. The country needs a radical president. pic.twitter.com/JPxzCaAelh
– Gerardo Morales (@GerardoMorales) February 18, 2022
Along these lines, after the summit in Santa Fe, Morales flew to Córdoba last night, where he met with Governor Juan Schiaretti to sign an agreement that promotes tourism between both districts and also give a federal message, calling for “fair distribution rules for all provinces”.
In that meeting, the claim for the fare and transportation subsidieswith which the city of Buenos Aires mainly benefits, an issue in which Morales constantly distances himself from his PRO partners, especially from Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, the other candidate from the opposition coalition for the presidential race.
“We agree that it cannot be that electricity is cheaper in the AMBA than in any of the provinces. It is time for the interior to come together and raise things to end this unitary country,” Schiaretti and Morales agreed last night, as published on their social networks.
At the internal level of radicalism, the governor of Jujuy also managed to get the legislators of Evolución to participate in the meeting in Santa Fe -which brought together the leadership of the party with the different national legislators of the space.
Evolution is the sector of the UCR linked to Martín Lousteau and that at the end of last year starred in the block break of Deputies of radicalism, when twelve legislators left the majority block, chaired by Mario Negri, and formed a separate group, led by another Cordovan: Rodrigo de Loredo.
Although the unification of the bloc is something that appears to be imminent, at least the radicals managed to give a certain image of unity in Santa Fe.
The santafesina summit also served so that the radicalismo debated the question of the Council of the Magistracy.
in a fault, the Supreme Court of Justice ordered changes in the composition of the body for the selection and removal of judgesand Together for Change has already announced that it will present a unified project in Congress when the issue is dealt with.
The UCR group that participates in drafting the bill is made up of Ricardo Gil Lavedra, former Minister of Justice; Mario Negri and Alfredo Cornejo.
The economic question was also part of the radical conclave, with the presence of economists Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Javier González Fraga, who was the head of Banco Nación during the presidency of Mauricio Macri.
Meanwhile, the radical landing in Santa Fe also left other political data to follow.
Morales met with the mayor of Rosario, Pablo Javkin, a man who could embody the UCR’s candidacy for governor in 2023.
The province is currently governed by the Peronist Omar Perotti and the radicals are excited to win it in 2023.
Javkin militated in radicalism in his youth, then approached the Civic Coalition of Elisa Carrió and militates in the Civic and Social Progressive Front, the Santa Fe front that brings together radicals, socialists and progressive sectors of the province.
What happened in Santa Fe -an approach of the UCR to socialism and progressive sectors- could give a clue to the future of the orientation of the radical armed towards the presidential elections, marking differences with the PRO and proposing a more progressive agenda and less than right.
The two presidential candidates who express these ideas and who appear with more chances -Facundo Manes and Morales- move with opposite logics.
For his part, Morales has a high profile, he is confrontational with the national government and gets fully involved in all public discussions, from the agreement with the Fund to the question of subsidies.
On the sidewalk across the street, Manes worships a very low profile, does not get involved in discussions on networks or in the media and outlines his candidacy with sporadic appearances to present a book on neurology of his authorship, a routine that he will repeat this afternoon in the city of Mar del Plata.
