The former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner dedicated a post to the Peronist deputies who supported Javier Milei’s veto to the University Financing Law. “True political transfuguism,” he defined.
CFK shared two notes from Página/12 which show the attitude of the governors Raúl Jalil, of Catamarca, and Osvaldo Jaldo, of Tucumán, and the missionary deputy Alberto Arrúa, who changed his vote.
“Yesterday, of the 99 deputies that make up the UxP bloc (mostly made up of Peronism, accompanied by other allied forces), 98 complied with the mandate of the vote that led them to occupy a seat representing the people,” he defined. Christina.
He then targeted Jalil and Jaldo by pointing out that “today the various news portals send us back images of governors from our party who would have influenced some legislators in their provinces, to comply with the strategy of supporting Milei’s veto.”
Added to this was the attitude of Congressman Arrúa, who “not only had voted for university financing, but also publicly promised to reject Milei’s veto.” “However, by some unknown alchemy, he ended up being one of the 5 Peronist votes that, if he had fulfilled his mandate, would have overturned that veto and today the university would have financing, its faculties would not be taken and the teachers and students in class,” he concluded.
Cristina Kirchner’s full post
Yesterday, of the 99 deputies that make up the UxP bloc (made up mostly of Peronism, accompanied by other allied forces), 98 fulfilled the mandate of the vote that led them to occupy a seat representing the people.
However, the vote against the national, public and free university prevailed, and Milei’s veto against education remains in force.
Today the different news portals return to us the images of governors of our party who would have influenced some legislators in their provinces, to comply with the strategy of supporting Milei’s veto (we value the statement of the Justicialist Party of Catamarca condemning the conduct of the representative for that province). You can also see the smiling face and V-shaped fingers of another Peronist deputy from Misiones who did the same.
That legislator is also General Secretary of the Justicialista Party in the province of Misiones and had not only voted for university financing, but also publicly promised to reject Milei’s veto. However, by some unknown alchemy, he ended up being one of the 5 Peronist votes that, if he had fulfilled his mandate, would have nullified that veto and today the university would have financing, its faculties would not have been taken over and the teachers and students in class .
It was thus that these legislators, together with the PRO and some remnant of radicalism, allowed Milei to gather the number to close the hopes of a country that knew how to recognize in education and, especially, in public universities, the path to social ascension.
The reasons for this true political transfuguism are explained, better than anyone, by the title and content of the note published today by the Infobae portal: “The government took advantage of provincial needs and deepened the fissures in almost all opposition blocs” (the one highlighted in bold belongs to me). This is what is destroying political representations and their institutions. And there are still some who wonder why Milei won…
This reality, which is already unconcealable, forces us today, more than ever, to straighten out what went wrong and order what was disordered to build the best possible Peronism in an Argentina that has become impossible for the majority of our inhabitants and for No one else in the name of Peronism ends up using a bench against the People and the Nation.
How Jaldo and Jalil helped Milei
The President had the invaluable help of Jalil and Jaldo for the survival of his veto of the University Financing law. The Tucumán did not mess around: his three deputies voted against the rejection of Milei’s veto.
The Tucumán deputies who respond to Jaldo are the same ones who at the beginning of the year withdrew from the Unión por la Patria bloc as a result of his agreement with the Casa Rosada to which he continues to pay homage without obtaining a single refund for the favors performed. Tucumán has not been favored by the Government, quite the opposite: the province suffered a 37 percent drop in the direct transfers it should receive.
Jalil chose another path to provide the President with veto protection: he made one of his deputies not be on his bench. The person from Catamarca who did not come to the venue was Fernanda Ávila, who once served as Secretary of Mining during the government of Alberto Fernández. The other three legislators, Sebastián Nóblega, Dante López Rodríguez and Silvana Ginocchio, voted against the veto. Jalil was mischievous: Ginocchio is his wife and he believes that by virtue of his vote, no one could reproach him for favoring the national government.
The PJ of Catamarca criticized the maneuver. Under the presidency of Senator Lucía Corpacci, he issued a statement in which he pointed out that “free public education is a fundamental principle of Peronism, it was Perón who, in 1949, decreed free university, allowing thousands of workers’ children to be able to get a college degree.” In that sense, the Catamarca PJ highlighted that “the absence of a representative from our space, without any reason of force majeure to justify it, forces us to repudiate her behavior.”
Alberto Arrúa’s somersault
Milei also had the support of the missionary deputies grouped in Federal Innovation who, although they did not vote with the ruling party, abstained at the time of the vote. The most curious support was that of Arrúa, who had declared that he was going to vote against the veto.
Arrúa had been blunt: “In my case, for example, I am not going to support Milei’s veto,” he told Futurock radio. And, defining himself as a Peronist, he added that he did not support any of the libertarian’s policies. When asked if his rejection of the veto would translate into voting affirmatively to insist on the financing law, the deputy responded: “Exactly, yes, yes, yes.” “I estimate that my blockmates will also do the same,” he concluded. Just 48 hours later he voted differently.