Marcelo Hugo Helfgot
02/05/2021 2:50 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/05/2021 4:59 PM
"At the extremes,
two intense and mobilized minorities
hope that the failure of the other will pave the way for them to power, regardless of the enormous cost in suffering and impoverishment that this implies for the majority of our and our compatriots," says one of the spiciest paragraphs of the juicy document published this Friday the 13th front-line referents of the UCR to raise the flag of the moderate wing of radicalism.
"Manifesto for democratic hope"
is the title of the text, impregnated with harsh messages to the Government and no less strident warnings towards the internal front of the opposition.
On the one hand, it diagnoses that "we are facing
the situation of greater institutional gravity and national fragility
that we have experienced since the democratic restoration."
And he calls for the construction of an alternative of power that Together for Change establish
"clear rules of competition
" and "the formal commitment of a
programmatic agreement."
At the head of the party call are the national parliamentary heads,
Mario Negri and Luis Naidenoff
, as well as that of the Buenos Aires deputies,
Maximiliano Abad,
together with the former president of the National Committee,
Ernesto Sanz
, and the head of the General Audit of the Nation,
Jesús Rodríguez
.
The vice president of the National Convention,
Agustín Campero
;
Lilia Puig
, in charge of the Alem Foundation (technical plant for radicalism);
her husband and former Secretary of Education,
Adolfo Stubrin
;
the former Secretary of Provinces,
Walter Ceballos;
Senator
Pablo Blanco, as
well as deputies
Fabio Quetglas
,
Facundo Suárez Lastra
and
Karina Banf
i, who was about to be Mauricio Macri's running mate in 2019, until Miguel Pichetto burst in.
When outlining the objectives of the convocation, the promoters of the document maintain that "an exercise of political creativity requires forming
a sufficiently broad, stable and visionary pole of republican power,
which disputes with chances of success and with clear proposals the leadership of the State, but also be willing to guarantee pluralism and to recover the meaning of political language, distorted by demagogic despotism in its most authoritarian manifestations.
Throughout 13 pages, they give some clues of the way they seek to give the electoral challenges of this year and 2023. "If we concentrate on seeing
the bad results of the last four years or in the last twelve
that preceded, we will not be able to understand the reasons for the bad national performance nor will we find the way out ", they emphasize.
At the same time, they argue that "there is no way to build the power necessary to move the country forward without a profound
paradigm shift
in the relationship between the political forces that have the possibility of alternating in government."
Next, they indicate that "we demand and offer mutual tolerance and
respect between the government and the opposition
", although they expose their limits: "In what we cannot stop being absolutely
and intransigent is
in the face of lies, in the face of corruption
and in the face of advances against the Constitution and the law. For that neither patience nor tolerance ".
As a programmatic proposal, they consider that "
it is not a vaccine that will move us forward,
nor is it the extension of the payment of the foreign debt; these are necessary conditions, but absolutely insufficient."
So they understand that "
growth will come from the hand of innovation, modernization of the economy,
competition, intelligent insertion in the global market, qualification of the population, and above all firm institutions, with full force of the rule of law and the rule of law, as well as with clear and stable rules of the game that encourage investment. "
In a message to the electorate, they indicate that "we feel that we will be capable of
not going back to the same mistakes
,
of changing the course,
of making the important matter, that not everything matters the same, that we know with whom and how to achieve a future of prosperity and well-being for the vast majority.
The tones of the manifesto, which some already consider the foundation stone of a new internal line in the UCR, was inspired by the Olimpia group, the nucleus of thought animated by some of the leaders who put their own hand into the document, such as Rodríguez, Sanz, Stubrin, Quetglas and Campero.
According to its promoters, the document circulated internally and has already garnered the signature of
30 of the 47 deputies
and
9 of the 14 national senators
Although as important as the adherents are the names of those who were left out of the call.
Not include the head of the National Committee,
Alfredo Cornejo
(place it
near the sectore
s
"hard"
)
;
the vice president of the Senate,
Martín Lousteau
(they classify him as "unreliable"),
nor the governors of Jujuy,
Gerardo Morales
, and of Corrientes,
Gustavo Valdés
, those with the most dialogue with
Alberto Fernandez.
As for the intern of Juntos por el Cambio, the lapidary phrase about "the two extremes" seeks to disqualify the positions of the head of the PRO,
Patricia Bullrich,
who usually represents
the thinking of Macri
and some of his allies, such as Pichetto, among others.
However, the text reserves the least pious concepts to describe the situation of the ruling party.
"What was for decades the popular force with the greatest incidence on organized workers, Peronism, has become the administrator of the state's diminishing resources to,
while it governs, restrain those who express its policy and, when it is opposition, mobilizing them to obstruct the changes,
"he says.
It continues: "Nothing is more demonstrative of this than the dynamics of mobilization in the face of changes in the formula for
adjusting pension assets
."
And he adds that "the ideas and plans that the government does not expose because it does not have, on the one hand; and the dynamics of the internal confrontations, the different priorities and contradictions of the agenda on the official front, as well as the relation of contempt towards the The main opposition, which radical women and men are part of, are leaving our country without the capacity to react in this difficult hour. "
More suits to the Front of All in the following paragraph: "Argentine politics suffers the dominance of
a retrograde pole
that has made up its old exclusionary and sectarian ways under a new garment; in it pseudo-religious visions, arrogant union styles coexist without too many tensions ,
feudal provincial regimes
, businessmen reluctant to competition, leaders who increase their fortune with public
affairs
and
professional applauders in exchange for favors
. "
As a fundamental political purpose, the signatories of the manifesto indicate that "we aspire to
lead with renewed thought and action the electoral challenges that lie ahead
. For that, respecting the electoral legislation in force without abrupt alterations is a guarantee for the legitimation of the democratic process."
That is to say, rejection of the projects to modify the
PASO and
strong determination to
lead the majority of the opposition legislative lists in the country.
Among quotes from the leading partisans Ricardo Balbín and Raúl Alfonsín, there is one from the hero of science Albert Einstein.
"Creativity is an intellectual subject even more important than knowledge."
And the auction alludes to a phrase by Jorge Luis Borges, when he was invited with other writers to the Casa Rosada as soon as the democratic government was assumed:
"Thank you, President Alfonsín, because I feel that you have given us back the duty of hope."
The manifesto of the moderate wing of the UCR
