07/26/2021 10:32
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/26/2021 1:55 PM
Facundo Manes, a pre-candidate for
Juntos
deputy
for the Province of Buenos Aires
, made a harsh diagnosis regarding the future of Argentina if structural changes are not carried out.
"
This crisis is the most important health crisis of the modern age
. It is economic and moral. And the educational impact will last decades due to the lack of face-to-face classes. There is poverty, there is poor nutrition," he warned in a dialogue with radio Miter.
At the same time, he warned that if the Argentine leadership does not take note and achieve "an agreement from above,
Argentina in a few years will have 60 or 70% poor and it will be even more unviable
."
According to INDEC records, 2020 ended with a poverty of 45.3%.
The official Institute of Statistics reported from the dissemination of the Permanent Household Survey (EPH) for the fourth quarter of last year that the poverty level was 38.7% between July-September and 45.3% between October- December.
"It is necessary to make a change of helm"
, sentenced Manes during the report in the program of Marcel Longobardi.
And he proposed to abandon the path of "sustainable underdevelopment" to go on a path of progress that allows promoting work in Argentine society.
Facundo Manes, neurologist and candidate for the opposition in the Province. Photo: Lucía Merle.
With the closing of lists on Saturday,
the intern was made official, which will feature Manes
, a candidate for the UCR and Diego Santilli, for
Es Juntos.
The neuroscientist who in the next legislative sessions will make his official debut in politics with the support of Buenos Aires radicalism, will be seconded by the Peronist leg of Emilio Monzó and Joaquín de la Torre.
"We want from various sectors, not only the UCR, Peronism, the GEN, from different sectors, to
give a new identity to the opposition coalition
and I would like to discuss with Santilli every week," Manes challenged his rival in the
Juntos
intern
.
When asked if this start of his political career also has his sights set on the 2023 presidential elections, the scientist chose to speak of a movement that seeks to make
"a quality leap in the opposition
.
"
"I do not see it as something personal, I see it as a collective project that is unstoppable because of what I am living on the street," he said about the proselytizing tours that he has already started.
Manes highlighted the "austere" announcement of his candidacy through networks with a cell phone in selfie mode, defined the next electoral call as "the fight of our lives" and advanced his position in case of reaching Congress.
"
I am going to be in favor of Argentina's progress
, job creation, modernity. I don't want a State that suffocates society. I am going to make the best of Argentina's potential. Each one of the laws I am going to vote on is the progress project. and modernity that we need, "he emphasized.
Finally, he insisted on questioning
the lack of "a country project"
to move forward in Argentina mired in crisis by the coronavirus pandemic and pointed to the "usual practices that do not work."
"We never discuss the underlying disease, we are permanently talking about the symptoms. There is no project of modernity, indeed there is an anti-project of progress decades ago," he said.
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