Argentina: Press conference, MST and PO present pre-candidacies and convene national plenary of the left
He 24 In May, the MST and the PO held a joint press conference where they summoned a large plenary session of the left to hold the 17 June with the FITU militancy and the activists, leaders and organizations that sympathize with the left to discuss and decide on politics, the program and the project that the left needs for the next period.
The pre-candidacies agreed by both forces were also launched to propose in said event, from Gabriel Solano and Vilma Ripoll to president and vice, in Province of Buenos Aires from Alejandro Bodart to governor, Nestor Pitrola to deputy and Romina del Plá to senator and in the City of Buenos Aires de Cele Fierro to legislator, Jesi Gentile to deputy and Vanina Biasi to head of government.
We share the full video of the press conference:
Some words from Alejandro Bodart at the press conference:
The political agreement reached is at the service of strengthening the Frente de Izquierda Unidad as an electoral option. But above all as a fighting tool to face the increasingly brutal attacks against the workers who are on the march.
for what is coming, no need just more votes, but tens of thousands of militants. We need to call activism to be an active part of the Front. This is the importance of having called a Plenary to discuss among all. That is why this agreement with PO is very solid and we call on the rest of the colleagues of the FIT Unit to come to the Plenary to discuss and resolve, with the method of the working class. We have to change the merely electoral logic, it is necessary to advance in a Front that, having a program of class independence, also has a democratic nature and acts in the class struggle, to face in the streets what is coming. Put the interest of the workers ahead because this country is accelerating to confrontations like in the 2001. And we need that hope of change, be the Unity Left Front.
Regrettably, the comrades of the PTS try to hegemonize, impose their candidacies without any type of debate and restrict the Front only to the electoral plane. We, Unlike, We want the other forces of the Front to be in the Plenary that we will carry out the 17 of June, that they bring their proposals and their pre-candidacies to put them in debate with all the militancy of the FIT Unit and the supporters of our program. And finish solving and voting the best candidacies and the politics for the campaign. That is what will strengthen the Left Front, participatory and truly representative debate.
The adjustment applied by the parties that govern and governed at the national level, it is also strongly felt in the province of Buenos Aires. The Front of All and Together for Change vote, for years, Taken together, the policies that pulverize wages, cut budgets in Health and Education, because his policy is at the command of the IMF program. Because, vote for the "lesser evil", It does not work. The only useful and self-defense vote is to the left.
