08/08/2020 - 11:39
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Former president Mauricio Macri plans to participate again, from France, in the new summit that the members of the national board of Together for Change (JxC) will hold next Monday.
As Clarín learned , Macri confirmed that he will join the Zoom videoconference that was organized for 9 o'clock and in which the referents of the opposition coalition will debate the strategy they will adopt in the new scenario that was installed from the agreement that the national government reached with the bondholders.
Although the members of the JxC national table decided to hold weekly meetings, it is expected that this Monday will be particular because many will raise the need to design an action plan that allows them to definitively expose the differences with the ruling party.
The first step in that sense was the one taken on Friday in Deputies, where the opposition coalition bloc decided not to give continuity to the parliamentary agreement to participate in the virtual sessions and reiterated that it will not accompany the attempts to reform the Justice.
In addition, this Thursday Elisa Carrió also reappeared and called for "peaceful resistance" because, he denounced, the government is using the pandemic to "establish a state of siege." The former deputy and one of the construction companies of the opposition front also warned about the advances against Justice, which she attributed to attempts by Vice President Cristina Kirchner to seek "impunity."
At the end of the last meeting of the national board, the JxC referents released a statement to reject the government's plan to reform the Judiciary and point out that "in a context in which the economy is collapsing on an unprecedented scale, growth unemployment, inequality and poverty, the efforts of the three powers of the State and of the political forces must be put to work in a substantial improvement of the State, to make it more productive and in the elimination of privileges ".
That position was resolved in the videoconference in which, in addition to Macri, were the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta; the owner of the PRO, Patricia Bullrich; the deputy Cristian Ritondo; Senator Humberto Schiavoni and auditor and former vice presidential candidate Miguel Pichetto.
Also participating, for the UCR, were the head of the party, Alfredo Cornejo; the deputy Mario Negri; the senators Luis Naidenoff and Martín Lousteau, and the deputies of the Civic Coalition Maximiliano Ferraro and Juan Manuel López.
For now, the will with which several of them will join the deliberations next Monday is to define a mechanism of action that allows highlighting the differences with the government on the issues that generate the greatest concern in society.
Therefore, in addition to pointing out against the extension of the quarantine and its effects on the economy and social spirit, the idea is to redouble criticism for the growing insecurity. "We have to set new priorities," said one of the members of the small table when asked by this medium.
Another episode that determined the spirits, for now in the PRO, in the face of the new meeting is the one starred by Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich. The fact is that, as confirmed by the sources consulted, the head of government argued with the former Minister of Security because it bothered him to be included among the signatories of the latest JxC statement.
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