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The differences “under no circumstances should be transformed into a rupture of the political space,” said the foreign minister.
Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero referred this Sunday to the “differences” that exist in the Front of All (FdT) around the vote of the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Congress and noted that “under no circumstances should they be transformed into a rupture of the political space” since the “transformations” necessary to “modify the productive, labor and social reality” of the country “require the unity of the coalition.”
“When unity is most needed, when we begin to see the concrete results in terms of economic recovery and employment in all available indicators, when we are going through the challenge of an international price shock on top of already very high inflation and knowing everything that missing so that daily living ceases to be a suffering for many compatriots, Peronism cannot give up on the representation and protection of the interests, the conquests and the rights of the national and popular field“, raised the former chief of staff.
In these two and a half years, the foreign minister continued, the Argentine people not only “leave behind, with maturity and in peace, the failed government of President Mauricio Macri“, but also “displayed an enormous patriotic effort” to get through the pandemic of coronavirus and now faces “the multiple effects, all of them negative, of a war in europe“.
In each of those moments, President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner “chose to prioritize the interests of the people”promoting “jointly the political unity to defeat the macrista neoliberal experience”, then deploying “health care and income measures that protect each and every one of the inhabitants and companies”, and adopting at this time “the necessary actions so that the impact of the increase in international prices and the disruption of the logistics of merchandise do not affect the powerful recovery of production and work that is observed in Argentina”.
Along these lines, he indicated that “the agreement with the IMF that this week was discussed in Congress intends to generate a timean impasse in the payment schedule, for Argentina to grow and advance with industrial policy that has already given good results but that, without a doubt, we must deepen to loosen the strangulation of our external sector and, at the same time, account for everything that is missing so that all families can live with dignity in our country”.
In this sense, he considered “It would have been much better if our political space had voted together” in Congress. The “differences within our coalition”, warned the chancellor on this point, “under no circumstances should they be transformed into a rupture of the political space”, given that “the transformations that we need to modify the productive, labor and social reality of our country require the unity of the coalitionof the work and ideas of all the comrades who make up this political space”.
“A historical and global moment like the one I mentioned cannot see Peronism with its energies put into the internal. We need these energies to move forward with the transformation agenda,” Cafiero remarked. And he concluded: “Going through this present of internal and external tensions implies looking society in the eye, abandoning the claims that some of us have over others. Those of us who embrace the most important political movement in Argentina, and even in Latin America, feel challenged by adversity and its material and daily impact on the Argentine people.”