Elections 2021: Jorge Altamira returns: he launches in Province and insists with a STEP from the entire left

Nahuel Mercado Diaz

07/04/2021 17:07

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Updated 07/04/2021 17:10

Jorge Altamira, the

historical leader

of the Argentine left,

will be a candidate again

after 6 years in the next legislative elections, in the midst of the debate on the unity of all the forces to compete in the Primaries.

The Tendency of the Partido Obrero, a force that he

founded after the breakdown of the PO

, appointed

Marcelo Ramal

in the City and 

Altamira

in the province of Buenos Aires

as pre-candidates and heads of lists

, together with a call for a PASO from the entire left.

"Our proposal is an initiative for

the electorate to focus its attention

on a single list of the left," said the leader in a statement.

Nicolás del Caño, from PTS, won the internship against Altamira in 2015.

In the run-up to the closing of the lists, the debate of "a great STEP" runs through the Frente de Izquierda Unidad, where the

PTS

,

the Socialist Left

and the

MST

raise this possibility, against the position of the official PO to go with "unified lists."

"The PASO should serve to warn workers about this

historical

impasse

of the current social regime, and

an opportunity for each party to explain its own platform,

" added Altamira.

Altamira's extensive career, with several candidacies under his belt, led him to compete in the FIT internship in 2015, when he was defeated by Nicolás del Caño in that Primary.

Four years later, in the middle of the electoral debate heading for the 2019 presidential elections, Altamira was expelled from the PO and began another path.

After his departure, together with Ramal, a former Buenos Aires legislator, they

founded the Tendency of the PO

with which they will seek to participate in the next elections with the Political Worker seal.

To do this, they must obtain

legal status

from the federal electoral judge María Servini de Cubría.

So far they have

achieved the objective

of electoral representation in Tucumán, Salta, Santa Fe and Santiago del Estero where they will present their own lists.

Hot Debate

The proposal of a great STEP by all the left forces is in full debate among the FIT-U parties (PO, PTS, IS, MST) and cuts through the rest. 

The Frente de Izquierda Unity

puts into play two seats of

national

deputies

of the Province of Buenos Aires, for which Del Caño and Romina del Plá were elected.

In addition, it renews three representatives of the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires, and one place in the Buenos Aires Legislature by the jurisdiction of La Plata.

Del Caño's force made public his proposal of

"unity of the entire left"

and even launched a petition to gather signatures and join wills in pursuit of an agreement to "

use the mechanism of the PASO

to form unitary lists in the general elections of November".

In the same vein, the other forces that make up the FIT-U were expressed from the MST and IS.

Days ago,

Manuela Castañeir

a, from the Nuevo MAS, invited Del Caño to hold a

"public debate before the closing of the alliances"

, where he would also take his statement of unity. 

Gabriel Solano

, of the official PO, rejects this proposal and points out the need to go to the elections with

"unified lists"

, with the aim of reinforcing "the unitary intervention not only in the electoral campaign but also as a reference and political alternative to the struggles that they are opening course in the face of the health and social catastrophe that we are experiencing ".

Miriam Bregman.

In the middle of this discussion, the names of

Miriam Bregman

and Solano sound to head for the City, while in the Province the idea is for

Del Caño

and

Romina del Plá to

return to the front of the lists.

The force of

Luis Zamora

, Self-determination and Freedom, decided to stand outside this discussion and has already announced that they will compete at the polls with their own list and candidates.

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