07/24/2021 1:21 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/24/2021 19:09
At hours of the closing of lists for this year's legislative elections, President Alberto Fernández and the vice president, Cristina Kirchner, led an act in an Escobar factory to
present the candidates of the Frente de Todos
.
Also present at the meeting are the Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillof;
the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Massa;
and the mayor of Escobar, Ariel Sujarchuk, among other leaders of the Frente de Todos.
The event served to "
present the candidates
" who will head the lists of the ruling coalition in the city and province of Buenos Aires, in addition to showing "a
photo of unity
."
"One of the most difficult things is to speak after Cristina, I say it from experience. It seems to be an advantage but it is very difficult. Because Cristina forces one to think, to reflect," began President Alberto Fernández, as the last speaker of the act.
"Not long ago there was a ministry of production in the government that preceded me, that when someone like Walter was going to ask for financial help to grow and buy more machinery they recommended that it import. That happened in the ministry of Production," he said. Fernández, in a critique of the economic policy of the government of Mauricio Macri.
"When we arrived we decided to put the economy on its feet, after 23 thousand companies closed in four years. We received a country in intensive care and after three months we were infected with the covid," said the President of the Nation.
After Sujarchuk's words of welcome, it was Massa who took the floor and immediately pointed out, although without naming her, the former Buenos Aires governor María Eugenia Vidal, who will be a candidate in the City.
"Those who closed and exploited schools speak of education," launched the president of the Chamber of Deputies.
In this way, the National Executive leaves the Buenos Aires formula official, which will be made up of the president of the National Council for the Coordination of Social Policies, Victoria Tolosa Paz;
and the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Daniel Gollan.
After the act, the candidates will go to the Casa Rosada to sign the documentation that will be presented to the party Electoral Board so that the candidacies are made official for the STEP.
In his speech, Fernández listed measures such as the Emergency Family Income (IFE), the Emergency Assistance Program for Work and Production (ATP), the food card. He also referred to the International Monetary Fund: "We boasted of saying that there will already be a generation of Argentines that does not have to worry about what the IMF is, now that nightmare is back among us. And it is not for us. It is for those who now They tell us how we have to fix with the Fund; they got us into debt and now they tell us how we have to fix it. "
"We went to the Fund and first we demanded their special drawing rights. And they came out. And now we say to them: 'Lower the surcharge', because that rate I will not pay you. In a world where the rate is zero I will not pay three and a half points and we continue to discuss, "he added about the negotiation and left a reflection on the deadlines.
"And let's review the times, I don't want to get rid of the debt problem, I want to fix it. And we argue and when we defend the rights of Argentines, they call us troglodytes."
In his words, the President also criticized the press.
"They write editorials because we sent a letter to a vaccine supplier that does not fulfill its commitments. And it seems that the fault is ours," Fernández pointed out in an energetic tone.
In turn, the Head of State accounted for the extension of rights such as the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, or the 100-day law.
"We encourage us to do something that the world today is debating how to do: we decided that the great fortunes, those who are doing better, collaborate in this crisis with those who are worse off," said the President and thanked those who paid the contribution solidary.
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