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He took over shopping malls and they kicked him out of the government: who is Juan Grabois' piquetero who threatens to go out and control prices on his own?

2023-01-18T20:04:37.925Z


Rafael Klejzer was in Social Development until two months ago. He was faced with Emilio Pérsico.


A thread of 15 tweets was written

by Rafael Klejzer

on November 17 when, according to his version, he decided to resign from the position of National Director of Integrative Policies that he had assumed when the presidency of Alberto Fernández began, in December 2019.

Almost as if feeling like a kind of hero within the innumerable universe of piqueteros who have dominated the Ministry of Social Development for three years, he detailed the reasons for his departure, explained his differences in criteria with the policies adopted and left a message at the end that today It

can be read almost like a prediction:

"Available to fight future battles."

Klejzer never really quit.

He was fired by Emilio Pérsico

, the Secretary of Social Economy, also a piquetero and leader of the Evita Movement, with the endorsement of Minister Victoria Tolosa Paz, who had taken office a month earlier.

"The first thing that was done was to ask for his resignation. By not presenting it, it was decided to fire him," executive sources told

Clarín

at the time .

And they added: "You cannot be an official and not respond to the policies that are carried out from the Secretariat."

Weeks before, appealing to his habitual verbiage,

Klejzer had been very hard against the social policy carried out by the very Government

that he was part of.

"In the Ministry of Social Development you have to work. Of course there must be clearer concepts. We know that we are a Ministry of the Patch. The Ministry of Social Development solves what the economy does not solve," he said, in times of transition between Juan Zabaleta and Tolosa Paz.

Two months after that rowdy outing, Klejzer, 50, is convinced it's time to throw out the suit and get back into acting.

"As of January 23, the La Dignidad Popular Movement will also carry out price controls," he warned on Twitter, adding on his own to the controversial inspection operations in supermarkets that the Government will carry out, with allied piqueteros, in different points of the city. Atlantic coast from Friday.

Images of a Buenos Aires mall, in 2018, when it was taken over by the CTEP branch under Klejzer.

And he went out to endorse that decision in the media, anticipating that "it

is possible that Alberto Fernández will recoil with control of the media, because it is the essence of his management

."

Along these lines, in a conversation with AM 750, he detached himself from state operatives, clarifying that "the government did not call us. We are going to participate in price control because the state ran out of tools."

"Given the excessive increase in prices and the suspicion that the large supermarket chains and production companies are not complying with the agreement,

the popular movements will be in each gondola

asserting the right of an entire people to access food at fair prices" , assured from the Popular Movement La Dignidad, which he heads.

Klejzer, with Juan Grabpis.

They have been friends for years and are members of the CTEP.


Friend of Grabois and promoter of the failed National Food Company


Before being a national official, Klejzer

had become known for having broken into Buenos Aires shopping malls in 2018

, claiming the food emergency.

He was already one of the leaders of the CTEP headed by Juan Grabois, his friend, through whom he came to the Government but from whom, according to part of his environment, he

would have distanced himself some time ago

.

Others, on the other hand, assure that they continue to act in tandem.

Klejzer, in addition, is the one who proposed at the beginning of 2022 to create a national food company to lower inflation, an idea to which at the time the official spokesperson herself, Gabriela Cerruti, gave credit, but which later, in the midst of a strong generated controversy, it

was deactivated

.

On this point, the former official tweeted when he resigned: "If today, the idea of ​​a National Food Company has grown in volume, in discussions, and in projection, it is partly due to the work that we carry out from our direction together with others. companions".

This week he reappeared with his proposal to join the Controls, but also with

strong criticism of Mario Ishi

i, the mayor of José C. Paz, who had targeted the piqueteros, declaring "we must stop being a parasite and a garronero".

Always through Twitter,

Klejzer crossed it

: "Cheap labor. The mayor @ishiiargentina wants people to work to remain poor. What is lacking in Argentina is fair work, fair wages":

Source: clarin

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