12/15/2020 2:05 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/15/2020 3:02 PM
President Alberto Fernández was shown this Tuesday with Hugo Moyano when he participated in the central act for
Trucker's Day
, during which he gave his support to the union leader and positively valued his management at the head of the coronavirus pandemic, by assuring:
"Yes life wanted us to pass the Peronist test, we passed
.
"
"That I am in the union should not attract anyone's attention. In politics one assumes commitments and what rights to represent within society. When we made the Frente de Todos we were clear that those we should represent were those who were worse off. those who work, "began the president.
In an intervention in which he
highlighted his party membership several times
, Fernández said that, in his opinion, "he passed the test" of Peronism that the pandemic put him in front of.
"None of us who govern at this time stop taking into account who we represent, who are the most fallen and those who work," he said, while recalling the payment of ATP for companies and the IFE, among other state aid during the crisis.
"We did everything because we have the soul of Peronists and for a Peronist there is nothing more important than work and production. If the pandemic put us to the test of something, it is our convictions. For us, life comes first, then work and after the production. Faced with the dilemma that some wanted to ask us, we had no dilemma.
And if life wanted to make us pass the Peronist test, we approved, Axel,
"he sentenced together with the Buenos Aires governor.
And he exclaimed: "Let whoever protests protest, let the one who gets angry get angry. This is what we did. Thank God we were able to count on the Moyano, with all of you who put all the effort to help us through the worst of the nightmares that Argentina has lived, which is to fight against a virus that we do not know. "
There was a private meeting before the official broadcast.
Photo: Presidency
And he continued with the praise for the trucker leader: "
Everyone knows how much I value and love Hugo
. He is a great union leader. We became friends in years when he fought for the rights of his clients and I was Chief of Staff. We are Peronists, we were able to verify the importance of the organization of those who work. "
After criticizing the government of Mauricio Macri, the head of state stressed that "the Truckers union fed three million Argentines when it was not their obligation and opened the doors of the Truckers' sanatoriums" during the pandemic.
And he closed: "How many detractors does one find against the system of social works and the unions ... I think you have to be proud of the union that you have managed to form. And badly that they criticize me, the leaders who made this union must be proud .
I was, am and will be another comrade, as much a Peronist as you
".
The event was held at noon this Tuesday within the framework of the Annual Trade Union Congress at the headquarters of the National Federation of Truckers, located at 921 Caseros Avenue, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución.
Also participating in the event were Pablo Moyano, son of the trucker leader and deputy secretary of the union;
and Axel Kicillof, governor of the province of Buenos Aires, among other leaders.
As indicated, the National Trucker Worker Day recognizes "the fundamental role that the truckers leaders played, together with the workers of all activities, to cope with these months of pandemic."
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