03/05/2020 - 19:34
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Eduardo Buzzi integrated that Liaison Committee that the main rural entities formed in 2008 to resist with protests and roadblocks the application of resolution 125, with which the then government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner applied mobile withholdings.
However, the former president of the Argentine Agrarian Federation (FAA) took away this Thursday from the new protest that declared the camp against the rise in export duties established by the government of Alberto Fernández . He said the measure of strength " is unfortunate."
" I am surprised . Until noon I had some telephone contacts with directors of the Agrarian Federation who were there, consulting. I do not understand at what time, at least from the Agrarian Federation, they have agreed to be part of that protest," he said.
Buzzi rehearsed an argument by pointing out that "a sector is imposed, a group that encourages protest beyond the political logic and negotiation that is open."
"Let's not fight," said the President, and some sectors of the field respond with a marketing strike . Those sectors were able to drag others away. I don't know what happened. For now, I'm surprised. "
In statements to radio El Destape , the former head of the FAA questioned the measure of force because, he warned, the country faces a "very complicated context" and reviewed: "There is debt expiration, the coronavirus pulls the world markets to hell , 40 percent of poverty in Argentina ... ".
"I see Daniel Arroyo (the Minister of Social Development) making a gigantic effort to put the food card to people who do not reach or do not have to eat. In that context, launching an agricultural strike seems to me to be an instance that it could have been postponed until the negotiation table is definitively terminated and failed, "he reiterated.
He said that, unlike what happened in 2008, now " there has been enough goodwill on the part of the official sector " to receive and negotiate with the representatives of the Liaison Bureau.
"12 years ago we were not received and we had an authoritarian confiscation, the retentions of Martín Lousteau (then Minister of Economy) were retentions that reached 58 percent. There we had to react because we were not interlocutors, but at this time the President he has received, there is a negotiating table, there are compensations for the little ones, "he compared.
Finally, Buzzi said that some of the protagonists of the protest have "opposition vocation", as President Fernández said during his speech to inaugurate the regular session of the National Congress.