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Massa asked to suspend the STEP: 'It is not necessary to submit Argentines to vote twice'

2021-04-05T12:04:29.285Z


The president of the Chamber of Deputies proposed as an alternative that they be held on the same day as the general elections.


04/05/2021 8:54 AM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 04/05/2021 8:54 AM

The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Massa, admitted that "he would prefer to vote in a single day" by means of an "agreement of the political forces that

avoids the carrying out of the PASO

(scheduled for Sunday, August 8), or with conducting the STEP on the same day "as the general election.

Massa said that he has "the conviction that politics has the capacity to resolve their differences indoors" and in this way "

does not subject Argentines to having to go to vote twice

."

In dialogue with the program "The rocket to the Moon", of

Radio Del Plata

, Massa said that "he

would prefer to vote in a single day

" through an "agreement of the political forces that avoids the carrying out of the PASO, or with the completion of the STEP on the same day as the general ".

In that sense, he justified that "it is a parliamentary, legislative election" and executive positions are not elected.

About the possibility of a dialogue with the opposition, Massa explained that the issue had already been discussed with parliamentary leaders of Together for Change "

raising different possibilities

.

"

But "the decision-making dynamics" of the opposition coalition "by having the leadership quotas distributed, causes them to

be forced to seek internal consensus,

" he added.

"The pandemic is an objective fact of reality," said the president of the Lower House, warning that it is necessary to recognize the "global geopolitical fight" over vaccines.

According to the electoral schedule, the PASo will be held on August 8.

In addition, he considered that "the greatest effort" must be put "in the economic recovery of Argentina and vaccination."

Massa also stressed that in the Frente de Todos they have "the particularity of being able to dialogue," even on issues that they think "differently and part of the secret of unity has to be to respect hand in hand in private and public spheres. the idea".

On the Covid-19, Massa observed that "

the growth of cases in this second wave is being seen day by day

" and added that "there is a mutation of strains that makes it appear in young people with more virulence", therefore the need to prioritize the fight against the pandemic.

The ruling party's plan

With its sights set on the election year, the Alberto Fernández government wants to share the political cost of having to decide on more restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic that will impact the economy.

To do this, it seeks to force an agreement with Together for Change that also implies postponing the primaries and the elections.

In addition, it intends to extract from the opposition a pronouncement to extend the terms of refinancing the debt with the International Monetary Fund, stretching the terms from 10 to 20 years.

For this reason, the Government's relationship with the opposition was once again strongly strained by the official idea of

postponing the electoral calendar of the PASO of August 8

and the October elections, with the excuse of the pandemic.

And he left on the one hand movements that showed some attempt at rapprochement -without opposition consensus Kirchnerism could not advance-, such as the meeting in the Casa Rosada between Minister Eduardo de Pedro, Sergio Massa and Máximo Kirchner, which summoned the head of the deputies from PRO Cristian Ritondo and Mayor Jorge Macri, with a final photo staging in the Patio de las Palmeras.

Also, the conclave - remote because of the presidential positive for Covid-19 - between Alberto Fernández and the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, to analyze the latest data on the pandemic and seek agreements to confront it. 

To accommodate everyone, the message of

“waiting” for how the health situation develops would be the most likely option.

The governor of Jujuy, the radical Gerardo Morales, in an interview with Clarín said on Sunday that "there is talk of postponing and it is premature to solve it now," and asked to wait and see what happens with the second wave and the march of the vaccination campaign. .

With information from Télam.

JPE



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