The Base Law is debated this Tuesday in the National Congress, and the three senators from Santa Fe spoke during the marathon session, revealing their votes. Carolina Losada and Eduardo Galaretto, from Together for Change, were in favor with certain reservations; while Marcelo Lewandowski expressed himself against it.
Losada
“I didn’t see calm protesters trying to demonstrate peacefully against a law, which can be and is lawful. What I saw were giant stones that were thrown at the police, Molotov cocktails, giant nails that were thrown with homemade weapons. It reminded me of what happened in 2017, when they don’t want a law to pass, they resort to violence. So, I don’t know who these people who are outside violating represent,” declared Senator Carolina Losada in relation to the serious incidents that took place outside Congress.
Losada also mentioned the consequences of these violent acts, including injured police officers, damaged television phones and a destroyed private car.. “They broke two television phones and a private car. What is the fault of the television phones or the car of a person who left it there?” She questioned.
“This is democracy, that is violence. They can’t wait for a law to come out, as happened in 2017, when they threw tons of stones. “It’s shameful,” he concluded.
READ MORE: Losada, on the riots outside Congress: “When they don’t want a law to pass, they resort to violence, like 2017”
Lewandowski
For his part, Marcelo Lewandowski expressed his solidarity with the militants who were attacked outside Congress: “How they like to use sticks and bullets…What a mania that is not understood in the democratic Argentina we live in.”
He then considered that “it is true that we owe ourselves a State law and policies that last over time”, but that predictability should be “not only for those who want to come to invest, but for those of us who live in Argentina.”
“It should not only be in economic issues, but also for health, education, the environment. I believe that the Bases Law and the DNU (which is working despite the fact that in this senate we voted against) “It is a State that ignores basic functions.”he stressed.
“I would love to give the president effective tools, but we are giving him a dough and an iron cutter”, Lewandowski emphasized. The senator for Santa Fe stated that “This law seems like a law to keep breaking.”
“As he said it, came to destroy the state. Of course many things have to change, but this is an economic matrix that we have already experienced,” he said.
READ MORE: Bases Law: “We are giving you a mass and an iron barrier,” said Senator Lewandowski from Santa Fe during the session
Galaretto
In turn, Eduardo Galaretto considered that “a government that begins with clear majorities, that announced what its policies were going to be, must support them in general and discuss them in particular, aiming to improve and correct them, which is what we have been doing for months.” .
“Once approved, you have to let them walk a little, evaluate them, and if they do not give results immediately make corrections,” he considered and quoted former Santa Fe governor José María Vernet: “He said that, being opposition, in the first two years “You cannot have oppositionism, not even in the last two ruling parties.”
“My party, the UCR, has been responsible in general as an opposition and the coalitions that we have formed as well. We are not blurred by that opposition responsibility. On the contrary, today we govern the province of Santa Fe with a Santa Fe spirit that believes in dialogue, that tries to reach a consensus on its policies with the opposition without ideological blinders, without unnecessary disqualifications, but rigorous with fiscal balance and clear incentives accompanying production,” he declared.
