More than astonished, almost
frightened and visibly uncomfortable, the
leaders of the CGT
withdrew
early on Friday from the PJ's national headquarters.
Far from a meeting that would serve as a kick to articulate internal consensus, the debate at the political table of the Frente de Todos
upset them due to the ferocity of the crossings and invoice passes
that aborted any minimal proposal in favor of prioritizing unity.
"There was no agreement not even to take a photo," one of the CGT caciques chewed angrily after five hours of the heated and harsh debate.
This discomfort and the feeling of a missed opportunity in the bid to contain the internal government and coordinate a strategy for the elections was the
dominant theme in the analysis that the trade unionists
shared on Friday in the framework of the traditional barbecue organized by the gastronomic Luis Barrionuevo in Mar del Plata and in the informal talks that the leaders of the union leadership exchanged during the long weekend.
"Politics is not going to solve our problems. The union leadership has to get into politics to find solutions from there. Make no mistake,"
Héctor Daer
demanded of his peers in the middle of the meeting called by Barrionuevo.
Héctor Daer was one of the exhibitors for the CGT at the Frente de Todos table and on Friday he participated in the barbecue organized by Barrionuevo.
Despite their differences, Daer had previously agreed with Pablo Moyano on the central line of the
message that the CGT would take to the FdT table
.
"Put unity first. Cut off the public fight," was the claim, as summarized by a leader to
Clarín
.
They exposed it, but in the midst of the harshness that the debate won, the proposal went almost unnoticed.
In addition, there was an internal criticism of the other two cegetistas referents who participated in the meeting at the PJ headquarters, the
banker Sergio Palazzo and the UOM leader, Abel Furlán
, whom his peers reproached for having assumed the responsibility at the meeting. defense of the interests of Vice President
Cristina Kirchner
.
"They went to play Cristina's game, not to represent the CGT," another trade unionist complained.
That is why in the front line of the central they chose to continue working on their
own strategy
while they wait for the dispute to settle at the top of the coalition.
In the middle,
the
meeting that the CGCE board of directors was going to hold this Thursday with the Minister of Economy,
Sergio Massa
, which -initially- many trade unionists imagined as a gesture to stage the adhesion that in the union world collects a possible adventure of the Tigrense in the presidential race.
The formal excuse for the new postponement was linked to reasons for the minister's agenda and his imminent trip to India for the G20 deliberations.
But the spread of 6% inflation in January and the difficulties faced by Massa's plan to put the main economic variables on track
caused some noise in the halls of Azopardo
and some trade unionists advised waiting.
"There is no need to hurry to play, there is still a long way to go," a historic leader recommended to his peers in the last few hours.
And he even flew over Barrionuevo's advice to "put" a chip on Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro in the presidential wrestling match.
For the gastronomic, the Minister of the Interior will be Cristina's fixed candidate, although it is not a general opinion in the union world.
Luis Barrionuevo led his traditional union barbecue in Mar del Plata and asked to "put a file" on the eventual candidacy of Wado de Pedro.
Escape from the internal fight in the FdT
In the face of uncertainty, it is better to prop up your own plan, it is the option for now.
"Consolidate the union's political muscle to strengthen ourselves in the discussion going forward", in the words of a referent from the front line of the central.
In practice, the plan involves
accelerating the assembly of tables of the so-called Peronist National Union Movement
, its own political space that the CGT launched on October 17 in the act of Sanitary Works, in each of the
provinces and the main municipalities
of the suburbs .
bonaerense.
"Militate the territory and organize ourselves" is the slogan.
The objective is to strengthen each trade union table to articulate the dialogue with governors and mayors from there and guarantee the inclusion of
their own candidates in the Peronist lists
of each of the districts, prioritizing the strategy in those provinces that split their elections from the national and they will go to the polls before PASO.
"Everything remains to be seen for the national fight, there is time," insisted another of the unionists enrolled in the same strategy.
In this search, the CGCE leadership - dominated by the "fat" (large service unions), the so-called "independents" (UOCRA, UPCN and Obras Sanitarias) and the Barrionuevismo - will aim to resume in the coming weeks the round of meetings
that It began last November with leading supporters and social organizations
.
On the one hand, they are already managing a new meeting with Buenos Aires mayors for the first half of March and, at the same time, they are preparing the agenda to visit those provinces that will launch the electoral year in a couple of months.
The raid will also be completed with the decision to
oil the dialogue with the piquetero groups related to the ruling party
, such as the Evita Movement and Somos Barrios de Pie, which on March 17 will launch their own political force, Patria de los Comunes, with the same union bet of sneaking their own candidates on the lists of the Frente de Todos.
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Luis Barrionuevo, at the trade unionists' barbecue in Mar del Plata: "Put a token on Wado de Pedro"