The official social movements have not yet agreed whether or not they will support the re-election of the president Alberto Fernandez whom they have supported since the first day of their mandate. In fact, they themselves are part of the Government. However, they do not hesitate to intensify the campaign to support a second mandate for Axel Kicillof, the governor of the province of Buenos Aires.
We are Barrios de Pie, the organization led by Daniel Menendez is in charge of this campaign that today is deployed in a thousand points located in the popular neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. Among its objectives is “to stimulate” neighbors to go to the polls to vote since in the PASO elections of September 2021 on a register of 34,385,460 voters, only 22,765,590 turned out: this constitutes 66.21%, the lowest percentage in the history according to the records of the Ministry of the Interior.
According to a survey carried out by the social leaders in Buenos Aires, and in the most neglected neighborhoods in particular, the increase in poverty, indigence and high inflation discouraged the residents themselves, who sympathized with Peronism, from coming to the place of voting.
“Axel is the best candidate that the Frente de Todos has to mark a continuity of the policies that reconstructed a State devastated by the management of Mary Eugenia Vidal”, Menéndez tells infobae. He also explains: “We went out to talk to the public because we understand that Kicillof’s re-election is the best path for the province”.
To carry this message, the militants of Somos Barrios de Pie, with Menéndez and the national deputy Natalia Souto At the head, they will visit a good part of the “information points” in Tres de Febrero, Vicente López, Avellaneda, La Matanza, Lomas de Zamora and other districts of the suburbs and the interior of the Province.
Menendez aspires to be the mayoral candidate by Tres de Febrero by the Frente de Todos and unseat the journalist and historian Diego Valenzuela (Let’s change).
how he advanced Infobae, the national coordinator of Somos Barrios de Pie was appointed by presidential decree as head of the brand new Council of Popular Economy and Complementary Social Salaryan organization with the rank of Secretary of State under the orbit of the Ministry of Social Development.
Until Friday, Menéndez held the Undersecretary of Integration and Training Policies, and in his place he was appointed leonardo urejolaalso a leader of Somos Barrios de Pie.
It was a new demonstration by Fernández towards the official social movements that on April 12 organized a protest in front of the social portfolio against the adjustments in the plans that, according to the complaint, were requested by the International Monetary Fund.
So far Menendez and emilio persicoone of the referents of the Evita Movement, did not publicly support Fernández who is seeking a second term.
Both, in addition to being part of the National Executive Branch, lead The Homeland of the Commonsthe political party through which they are willing to dispute territorial space with the mayors, especially those of the Buenos Aires suburbs.
“The neighborhoods are with Axel”, reads part of the brochures distributed by social activists to those who come to the tables set up by Somos Barrios de Pie. The flyers and posters highlight some of the actions of the Kicillof government: 11,000 paved dirt streets; 166 thousand new homes with access to sewers; 148 new school buildings; 87 works completed in hospitals and 31 underway.
These actions in the most vulnerable neighborhoods coincide with the inflation index released by INDEC: the March record was 7.7%, which implied that the price rise reached 104.3% year-on-year. The data again marked a rise compared to the previous month, when it stood at 6.6 percent.
This national reality data affects the most vulnerable sectors of the population: poverty reached 39.2% and covered more than 18.6 million Argentines; and indigence was 8.1%, according to official data from the same National Institute of Statistics and Censuses published on March 30.
“Los Barrios are with Axel, right to the future”, predicts another poster that hangs from the white plastic tables located in Virrey del Pino, the Matanzas neighborhood where criminals shot the bus driver of Line 620, Daniel Barrientos on April 3. The crime generated demands for greater security, not only in La Matanza, but throughout the suburbs.
The social leaders who are promoting the re-election of the governor must also deal with these data, who on Thursday, together with La Cámpora and other Kirchnerist groups, once again defended their political leader, Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in front of the Palace of Courts after the conviction. in the so-called Road Cause, to 6 years in prison for defrauding the State and perpetual disqualification from holding public office. The agitated slogan was: “Democracy or judicial mafia”.
Before this medium, Menéndez ratified: “The challenge of the province of Buenos Aires is immense. It requires many years of transformation, expansion of rights and strengthening of productive capacities”. And he explained that the proposal that Somos Barrios de Pie carries out is “to go out and talk to thousands of neighbors in different parts of the Province and it has to do with the certainty of knowing that we have to deepen this reconstruction that Axel carried out throughout throughout his tenure.”
Among the merits of the first four years of Kicillof’s administration, the social leader highlights: “The governor’s policies on safety matterhousing, infrastructure, education and public health, which They deserve continuity.”
– What differences do you find between the Kicillof administration and that of Fernández in the Nation? Infobae asked Menéndez.
-Kicillof guarantees the continuity of the economic policies of the Frente de Todos in the province of Buenos Aires and from there we propose to discuss the limits that we have had in the national framework for the difficulties we are experiencing today, understanding that we must not go back on experiences that they have done us a lot of damage and that they are a guarantee of job destruction, social difficulties and neglect in the public administration, he replied.
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