The opposition rejected the idea of a call to dialogue by the government. In the middle of the rise of the dollar and the increase in inflation, several referents of Together for Change and from other parties questioned the eventual call to agree on policies that Axel Kicillof suggested out loud. “We have been waiting for an economic plan for two and a half years”said the deputy and former governor Maria Eugenia Vidal.
“The Front of All has to reach an agreement among its members before demanding an agreement from the opposition. We have been waiting for your economic plan for two and a half years. This crisis is the fourth Kirchnerism”he added.
Harder was the radical Mario Negri. “It is urgent that the Government put a tourniquet on the crisis that it created. The country is bleeding,” he warned on his official Twitter account.
“I repeat to the FdT: stop pushing each other and launching test balloons. We will discuss all the laws in Congress, but first they have to have a stabilization plan. JxC will not co-rule,” he wrote.
“Together for Change has to accompany the citizens who are suffering from this disastrous government, not the pro-government leaders who generated this catastrophe and only fight among themselves. That they hug each other and begin to solve the crisis”, said the deputy of Together Sabrina Ajmechet.
Who made explicit the need to dialogue with the opposition was the governor Axel Kicillof. During an act in Florencio Varela, the Buenos Aires governor stated: “I ask for nothing more than that. We are not hate, or aggression or violence. We lived through four years of those misfortunes and today we need help, also from our opposition”.
As published by LA NACION, there are also members of the cabinet who believe that, given the economic context, the exit has to be consensual. But the reaction of the parties was rejection.
“If the government called me for an agreement with the opposition, my response would be “take the proposal to Congress and the matter will be publicly debated there”. Congress must be the only place of agreement and the discussion must be public and transparent in front of society”, he maintained for his part. José Luis Espertof Advance Freedom.
Together for Change had established a position the day before following a summit. As LA NACION publishedthe opposition space released a statement in which it warned: “We warn with concern the criminal and conspiratorial attitude of the vice president, who not only empties the presidential figure, but also attacks the rest of the institutions.”
In the meeting, there were some differences. Larreta chose to maintain “a prudent attitude” and avoid actions that generate “false expectations” in the public, especially in the face of growing social unrest due to the deterioration of the economy. While Patricia Bullrich analyzed that it is necessary to have a proactive attitude and “be present in the face of an absent government” to avoid “further damage to the economy.”
Specifically, the heads of JxC agreed that the ruling class must show gestures of “austerity” in the face of the crisis. “The economic and social situation that affects the living conditions of the most vulnerable sectors as much as our productive capacities merit that the parliamentary blocs refrain from promoting or accompanying any initiative that implies increases in public spending,” they highlighted.
Before the Government began to slip the idea of dialogue, Elisa Carrion y Horacio Rodriguez Larreta They spread a photo of a meeting on their networks, together with Mario Quintana. Larreta accompanied that photo with this text: “It is precisely in these moments where Together for Change has to be more united than ever to defend together, and with all the force, the Republic, the institutions and the division of powers.”
Ferraro wrote, following that meeting: “And strength does not mean attacking, but quite the opposite, sustaining democracy and institutions. And above all, work together to find solutions to the problems that affect millions of Argentines: Inflation, security, poverty, lack of work and education”.