09/13/2021 8:52 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 09/13/2021 9:45 PM
Hours after the harsh defeat of Kirchnerism in the PASO, the candidate of the Frente de Todos in the City Leandro Santoro warned that
"the answer"
to the slap that the electoral setback meant
"has to be given by the Government
.
"
"The result corresponds to a socioeconomic reality with
a reality that is lacerating
. The answer has to be given by the Government, the problem must be managed and solved," said Santoro.
And he added: "The results are overwhelming and the Government is perfectly clear what it has to do; it is clear what the diagnosis is, which is socioeconomic, and those are the answers that must be given."
In an interview with
C5N
, he said that he
held a meeting
with President Alberto Fernández at the Casa Rosada on
Monday
and that the president told him that on Thursday he would make "important announcements."
Alberto Fernández with Leandro Santoro months ago at the Casa Rosada.
"The ball is in the court of the Government. I spoke with the President and sure
there will be important announcements on Thursday
," he insisted, while demanding "to act and govern, and put money in people's pockets."
Santoro analyzed that
"society can't take it anymore"
and that neither he nor the President live "in a bubble."
"For me,
the policy has to be clear
, rebuild income, salary and try to ensure that inflation is always below salary growth," he emphasized.
Asked about the reasons why, according to him, the Government lost the elections, Santoro pointed out that "almost all
the governments that faced the pandemic lost
" elections and went a little beyond that premise installed in the official discourse.
He added: "It's
not a damn thing to have people locked up
and the economy crashes, especially when you came from a crisis."
Santoro also warned that "in the world the political discussion is
moving to the right
and the speeches that propose a minimal State appear, they propose a model based on financial income."
However, the left grew while the votes of the Frente de Todos decreased.
Meetings in the face of defeatist climate
Santoro visited Fernández
in his office
in the Government House after the President indicated in an act that he hoped that the path started in 2019 "will not be altered" despite the blunt setback at the polls.
"I trust that this path that we started in 2019 will not be altered, that as far as we are concerned it will not be altered," he said during his
speech at the Bicentennial Museum
.
The President also received Ministers Gabriel Katopodis and Juan Zabaleta in his office, in a meeting later joined by Santiago Cafiero.
Everything points to the need for a coup to
get out of the defeatist climate
.
Leandro Santoro went to Casa Rosada this Monday and took promises from the President.
Photo Marcelo Carroll
Katopodis and Zabaleta, two of the Greater Buenos Aires ministers with the best ties to the head of state, had had an
urgent summit
with Sergio Massa, Máximo,
the night before, very late and after the speech in which Fernández acknowledged the electoral debacle.
Kirchner, Eduardo "Wado" from Pedro and Andrés "El Cuervo" Larroque, minister of Axel Kicillof's welfare portfolio, on the third floor of the bunker in complex C.
For her part, Vice President Cristina Kirchner met with De Pedro and his son Máximo in his office.
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Look also
A result that demolishes the legends of Cristina as an "infallible strategist" and Máximo as a "great political cadre"
Diego Santilli, the day after PASO: "Kirchnerism did not manage, did not listen to society"