Pichetto launched his political space within Together for Change: 'We are going to consolidate the opposition coalition to win again'

03/11/2021 19:55

• Clarín.com

• Politics

Updated 03/11/2021 8:34 PM

Looking ahead to the next midterm elections, Miguel Angel Pichetto launched a new political space: Republican Peronism, which will be part of Together for Change.

From there it will aim to capture

the non-Kirchnerist Peronist vote

in the province of Buenos Aires.

"We are going to consolidate the opposition coalition to win the elections again in 2021 and in 2023," declared the leader in the presentation of the space.

At the San Miguel Rugby club, located in that Buenos Aires town, the former vice-presidential candidate began the speech with a criticism of the quarantine imposed by the Alberto Fernández government: "We are here in the open air, with protocols,

but we broke the darkness of the zoom, being locked up.

We think that life is outside and

the path is work and human relationships,

"he said.

The former vice president candidate spoke at the San Miguel Rugby club Photo Rafael Mario Quinteros.

Later he said that his party seeks profound changes in the country: "When big reforms have to be made, everyone opposes and is against it.

But if we don't make these reforms, we won't get out anymore."

And he continued: "We

must lower the tax burden on businessmen, those who create jobs.

The Argentine bears a phenomenal tax burden. Our country charges twice the tax of Brazil, ten times more than Chile, Uruguay and twenty more than Paraguay.

Here the man who works and produces is lost while the only thing that grows are social plans and that path is very dark

. "

The current Auditor General of the Nation said that it is "necessary to modernize labor regulations" and assured that

"we cannot continue with the laws of 1970"

.

In this sense, he asked for a more flexible system for SMEs:

"Large companies cannot mark the parity of small ones."

In another part of his presentation, Pichetto vindicated two Argentine politicians.

First, the recently deceased

Carlos Ménem,

whom he remembered as the ruler who, without hatred or resentment, sought national unity:

"He left us a capitalist vision, of openness to the world, of economic stability

."

Then - while he was talking about recovering the Armed Forces ("you have to equip them and give them salaries that are not miserable") he named

Julio Roca

, whom he highlighted as a

"national hero."

#PeronismoRepublicano

Today we present the new space of Republican Peronism, focused on production, the value of work, and respect for institutions.

We continue to add to consolidate the opposition space.

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- Miguel Ángel Pichetto (@MiguelPichetto) March 11, 2021

"Patagonia is once again at risk, as it had in the time of Roca, when he took all that territory for Argentina. He was a great national hero.

And today there are pseudo Mapuche groups that take those lands and nobody does anything."

Before that, the one who spoke was the leader

Claudia Rucci

, daughter of the murdered trade unionist José Ignacio Rucci: “

Republican Peronism is just that, Peronism.

Peronism of Perón.

It is Peronism that speaks and believes in national unity.

From health, from public education, which respects Justice, which believes in production, work, personal effort and dialogue.

That is us, that is not them ”.

Under the name of "Republican Peronism", this line within the opposition coalition runs parallel to other armed groups such as the one led by Emilio Monzó, also with the aim of adding to the opposition force what they define from that space as "Peronist votes. not Kirchnerists ".

Within this group, in addition to Pichetto and De la Torre, along with some mayors who lost the election in 2019, there is also the national senator for Salta Juan Carlos Romero.

It is a political establishment outside of other internal lines of Together for Change, such as that represented by the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, or the toughest wing of the PRO, referenced in the former president Mauricio Macri and the current head of the party, Patricia Bullrich.

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