The very good election of the Left Front in the City of Buenos Aires and in the Province of Buenos Aires It is one of the important data left by the elections this Sunday, October 26. With Myriam Bregman at the helm, The FITU achieved its best historical election in the city and the best election on the left since 2003. For his part, with Nicolás del Caño in PBA he managed to consolidate himself as the third force and obtain two seats for the National Congress, achieving important results in the Third Section and parties such as La Matanza, where he exceeded 7% of the votes.
That is why this Tuesday there are several large national newspapers that report on this new political fact that, in the midst of polarization, shows the sympathy and support that exists and that has been growing from a part of the government’s opponents for those who have been intransigent with Milei from the beginning and have faced him in Congress and also in the streets.
“The suburbs and the renewed impulse to the left” is the title of the note signed by journalist Juan Manuel Meza in Page 12in which it highlights that “the space that brought Nicolás del Caño to the top of the list was consolidated as a third force” and asserts: “In the province of Buenos Aires, the difference with other spaces was striking. The FIT-U He vastly surpassed candidates with experience and visibility such as Florencio Randazzo or Fernando Gray. The first headed the ticket of Provincias Unidas, an alliance with a presence in the districts governed by its founders, but with little impact in Buenos Aires, Gray competed on his own with Unión Federal as a Peronist alternative and failed to prevail even in Esteban Echeverría, a district that he has governed for years, since La Libertad Avanza won there.
And he also points out: “This growth of the left was particularly visible in the Buenos Aires suburbs, where the FIT-U achieved good percentages, taking into account its range between 4 and 6 points. In districts such as La Matanza (7.06 percent), Merlo (6.57 percent), Presidente Perón (6.31 percent) and Morón (5.92 percent), the left far exceeded its provincial average. The consolidation in the second belt of the suburbs, historically adverse for spaces outside Peronism, marks a qualitative leap in the territorial insertion of the FIT-U“.
For its part, Clarion He also refers to the performance of the Trotskyist left and remarks: “The result of the election, almost 41% of the libertarians compared to more than 31% of the PJ, shows a country divided in two. Proof of this was that the surprise came from the Left with 9% of Myriam Bregman in the City and 5% of Nicolás del Caño in the province. “The AMBA voters who did not opt for either the LLA or the K, fueled the rift by going to the left, which is anti-Milei and in the game of polarization is closer to Kirchnerism.”
for the newspaper The Nation“the rise of the Left Front is also striking, which had 85,000 more votes than in September” and asks: “Was there a flight towards the extremes on the part of anti-mileism?” The question is accompanied by a graph that compares the September 7 elections, where the FITU obtained 355,796 votes, to the 438,747 it obtained on Sunday throughout the province.
Precisely the polarization scenario is what Page 12 highlights, stating that the left’s result “becomes relevant not only because of the numbers obtained, but also because of the political context in which it occurred. The list headed by Nicolás del Caño in the province and Myriam Bregman in CABA prevailed as an alternative to the advance of La Libertad Avanza-PRO, the official alliance that was the winner, and Fuerza Patria, the Peronist group that failed to win a legislative election national in its historic Buenos Aires bastion since 2005. The FIT was the only force that, in addition to these two, managed to sneak representatives into Congress in the middle of an election marked by low participation with only 68 percent of the voters attending the polls.
In a scenario of asymmetric polarization, opposition to Milei has proven to be very widespread but, on the contrary, its political representation with Peronism at the helm has been exaggeratedly moderate, allowing the government’s plans to advance. The data of the good results of the left in PBA and CABA is part of that polarization, but it indicates that an important portion of that social opposition is committed to a frontal combat without speculation against the Milei government. Something that is an important basis for the announced reform plans of the Government and that can anticipate interesting political phenomena in the face of the next battles that lie ahead, which will find the decisive stage in the streets.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
