Yesterday’s table with Lousteau, Morales, Brizuela, Negri and Cobos/twitter
The president of the radical Civic Union, Gerardo Morales from Jujuy, convened the entire country’s leadership of the centenary party to analyze the current political and parliamentary situation, but also in a search for unity in this electoral year. However, there were conspicuous absences such as that of deputy Facundo Manes -and possible presidential candidate-, senator Alfredo Cornejo, governors Rodolfo Suárez (Mendoza) and Gustavo Valdés (Corrientes), and Carolina Losada from Santa Fe.
In any case, the governor of Jujuy, at the Mar del Plata Provincial Hotel, gathered some 50 radical leaders, including Martín Lousteau, Ernesto Sanz, Mario Negri, Julio Cobos, Inés Brizuela y Doria, Gustavo Posse and Maximiliano Abad, among others.
After the conclave, Morales assured in a press conference that “the challenge” in the framework of the election year is to “rebuild the middle class and that the poor stop being poor,” and called for “maturity and responsibility” in the relationship with the PRO, in order to continue in “a good framework”.
It was after seeking to dismiss the idea that last Saturday’s meeting with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta was an already closed electoral agreement, when talking about crossed formulas in Together for Change to compete against the ruling party.
“We are working on a programmatic congress of radicalism for March in Córdoba, so we are going to establish the guidelines of the program that we have already been working with the foundations of the other parties, but there are public policy decisions that must be made,” said the radical chief. .
But the truth is that both Manes and other UCR leaders – some absent yesterday in Mar del Plata – reject Morales as the sole interlocutor in the negotiations with the members of Together for Change. For this reason, that photo did not go down well at all, beyond the smile, the crossing of a street similar to the cover of The Beatles’ album.
For his part, the national senator for the city of Buenos Aires, Martín Lousteau, told the media present that “when it comes to facing judicial reform or economic and fiscal policy, in Together for Change we are all together, it is a coalition with a lot of ability to stand up against these attacks ”.
And regarding the internal JxC collation and the differences between radicalism and PRO, he indicated that “it is normal the noise that there is in an election year where there are many who have aspirations and want to compete.”
Impeachment
Morales was in charge of opening the meeting and there he warned that the impeachment request on which the ruling party is advancing modifies the entire legislative agenda planned for the current year. “They get us into a serious institutional issue that we cannot allow,” he said. Sanz from San Juan and Brizuela from La Rioja coincided.
Finally, the need to continue gathering support among co-religionists for the upcoming electoral challenges was claimed. The first wrestling will be in La Pampa. There, maximum commitment and effort was demanded for the co-religionist and pre-candidate for governor Martín Berhongaray.
