The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, spoke for about an hour in front of thousands of people who this Saturday participated in the plenary session “The Homeland is not for sale”; a meeting that the political table that surrounds him decided to organize to give centrality to the Buenos Aires president in his opposition to the Bases Law on the one hand and the projection in the medium and long term within the Peronist universe, on the other. Throughout his speech, Kicillof confronted the president Javier Milei. He said that he defrauded his electorate because the adjustment “is paid by the people and not by the caste,” which does notor will he go to the May Pact because “they never called us, nor did they listen,” reminding him of the funding cut. Also, he said that he spoke with other governors about this issue and in a hint towards what is to come he warned that “we are here to launch the political imagination.” think about the future of the country”.
The plenary session “The Homeland is not for sale” had ten commissions that agreed on a final document. The result was to show the dissidence with the Bases Law which is being debated in the Senate, after its approval in Deputies. There was a varied presence from the Peronist world.
Kicillof was the only speaker on the main stage. According to the organization, there were 35 thousand people at the Thevent Sports Center in the district governed by the Peronist, Andrew Watson who acted as host. Before Kicillof’s speech, the governor met with mayors and some leaders at the local PJ headquarters, in what was a political signal in the midst of the internal Peronist movement that, to this day, seeks to decompress.
In his speech, Kicillof was ratifying the concepts that he has been giving in different management activities. However, there was a perhaps novel passage that occurs in a context of openness. It was when he stated that “we are here to think and organize the militancy at this stage, to prepare diagnoses, think about the province and its problems… the federal and country problems.”
For some time now, Kicillof has been raising the national issue and in the last four days he was in Chubut and Santa Fe signing agreements with the governors Nacho Torres and Maximiliano Pullaro. “We are here to launch the political imagination that thinks about the future of the province.” and think about the future of the country”, he stated in that context, perhaps novel. “Axel Presidente” was sung.
On stage, Kicillof brought up different leaders and representatives of different sectors, both Peronist and progressivism. He was accompanied by some mayors from the suburbs and the interior, such as Jorge Ferraresi (Avellaneda), Fernando Espinoza (The slaughter), Julio Alak (La Plata) Mario Secco (Cove), Fabian Cagliardi (Berisso), Juan José Mussi (Berazategui), Federico Achával (Pillar), Fernando Moreira (San Martin), Mariano Cascallares (Admiral Brown), Gaston Granados (Ezeiza), Mariel Fernandez (Dark), Gustavo Barrera (Villa Gesell), Celia Gianini (Carlos Tejedor), Leonardo Angueira (Punta Indio), Cecilio Salazar (Saint Peter), Ricardo Dalessandro (Leap), Julio Marini (Benito Juarez), Walter Wischnivetzky (Mar Chiquita), among others.
Other representatives of Peronism were also seen on stage, such as the leader of the Evita Movement, Emilio Persico; the representative of Somos Barrios de Pie, Daniel Menéndez – who is also a provincial official –, the general secretary of Truckers and triumvir of the CGT, Pablo Moyano; the general secretary of Suteba, Roberto Baradel or the general secretary of the Autonomous CTA of the province, Oscar De Isasi And several more.
Part of his Cabinet also escorted him. The vice governor, Veronica Magario; ministers and officials Carlos Bianco (Government)Andrés Larroque (Community development), Gabriel Katopodis (Infrastructure), Estela Diaz (Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity), Walter Correa (Job), Pablo Lopez (Economy), Augusto Costa (Production), Javier Rodriguez (Agrarian Development), Javier Alonso (Security), Alberto Sileoni (Education), Christian Girard (ARBA) took the stage. Several of them were in charge of organizing the plenary.
There was no presence of Buenos Aires mayors or ministers who are part of La Cámpora. However, as he was able to reconstruct InfobaeBefore Kicillof arrived in Varela, he had a conversation with the leader of the K organization and president of the Buenos Aires PJ, Maximo Kirchner. In that exchange of messages, the national deputy conveyed that he thought the plenary session was “a good idea” and proposed to the president to “meet soon.” That meeting could take place in the next few days.. Kirchner also told Kicillof to invite whoever he considers to that invitation.. The governor thanked in what is suggested as an autumn truce. “Everything is fine between them,” they warn from their surroundings.
The May Pact was another tough passage against Milei. “We said in March about the so-called ‘May Pact’, that if it was for the photo, they would just start. It looks like there won’t even be a photo. A pact means that those who do not think alike agree on some elements. This is not a pact, They want us to sign the Milei platform. To be clear: we do not agree with those ideas. No way. They never called us, they never talked, they never listened, and now they want us to go sign?” considered.
Then, he ironized: “I suggest a date: Why don’t they call for the 4th of July? It is not a pact, it is not from May.”
About the closure, Kicillof He called to mobilize Congress on the day the Bases Law is discussed. It is a call that adds to the one that various sectors of the opposition have been working on. “It was resolved today oppose that law until it collapses. It does not have an article that benefits the people. We will march to Congress when it is dealt with“, said.
He also stated that the rule being discussed in the Senate “wants to take away five years for women to retire, they want to take away labor rights,” because “for a year you can have people on trial and fire them without compensation. Now there will not be workers, but collaborators. Let them forget about that.”
The governor’s position with respect to both the Base Law and the May Pact is clear and oppositional. However, for a few weeks he has been drawing up a more federal speech that is added to the management tours of other provinces, but in which he combines more political meetings. He did it in Chubut and Rosario.
Although, they pose in their environment, This is not the time for candidatures.; Today’s event closes one stage and opens another. It completes the different meetings that multisectors from different districts have been holding since January of this year – Kicillof highlighted that and the different mobilizations against Milei’s policies such as the Federal University March or the first general strike called by the CGT – and already proposes towards the future “build an alternative”.
Something that was captured in the chant “Axel Presidente”, launched by the militancy. “It’s a hopeI hope that many more hopes are born. It is good that people express themselves and it is an option for the future, because the last thing we can do is not have a choice, not have a future. I hope more options appear so we can choose what we have best in our political space,” said the mayor of Ensenada, Mario Secco, after the act. Something that the national representative also stated, Victoria Tolosa Paz-another of the leaders who took the stage- who assured that “we have to go forward, update the doctrine again for the current time. We must work from now on to build national strength“, federal that Peronism always was.”
The cooperation trips that Buenos Aires has been signing with other provinces are the base from which the Buenos Aires president stands to – little by little – build. “I come to talk about what the governors of all the Argentine provinces have told me,” Kicillof remarked this Saturday. “They are thinking of a country where each province saves itself, where there is competition, individualism. “We are going to offer the solidarity of the province of Buenos Aires to the Argentine provinces, we are not going to accept national dissolution,” He detailed in another subtext that in addition to the Base Law and the May Pact, Kicillof is looking further afield. He does not rule out that he will soon sign more interprovincial agreements; possibly with the province of La Pampa.
