On May 18 there will be elections in Buenos Aires City To renew 30 of the 60 benches that make up the Buenos Aires Legislature. Peronism, nucleated in Union for the Homelandlaunched the list It is now Buenos Aireswith the radical Leandro Santoro At the head, followed by Claudia Negri, Federico Mochi and Andrea González (from the Juan Grabois group). They have the possibility of renewing 8 legislators; But they present the choice with the promise of winning the macrismo -although the city government is not at stake.
It is not the first time that Santoro asks for the vote of the Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires with the promise of winning the macrista right. Leandro Santoro was a candidate for head of Government for UXP in the 2023 elections and asked to vote him to enter the ballot with Jorge Macri. He got it: but at the last moment he decided to get off the order of President Sergio Massa candidate. The calculation was to avoid confronting the macrismo in the city and thus scratching some votes of that space for the presidential ballot. Although Massa was a right -wing candidate within Peronism, macrismo ended up being a tail van of Javier Milei. All calculations went wrong.
In these legislative elections, Buenos Aires Peronism repeats an already failed formula. In 2019, they put Alberto Fernández to beat the former president Mauricio Macri: They succeeded, but the government of the front of all was so disastrous that he opened the doors to the triumph of Javier Milei in 2023. With Alberto Fernández at the head, Martín Guzmán as Minister of Economy and then with Sergio Massa: they legalized the macrista debt fraud with the IMF and thus, continued to increase social inequalitythe transfer of income from the popular pocket to the accounts of the great entrepreneurs; along with labor and social precarization, and the adjustment to public budgets.
While Peronism is cooked in a internal between Cristina Kirchner and Axel Kicillofbased in the province of Buenos Aires, which for the last hours threatens to end up lists; in the City of Buenos Aires put a “albertista” candidate To lead the lists.
What does it look like “Albertismo”?
Both Leandro Santoro as Alberto Fernández They made their political careers in the city of Buenos Aires, in a shared space between Peronists and Alfonsinistas. Santoro remained very close to Alberto Fernández during his term, was his political advisor y personal friend. So it is that when the adjustment and delivery agreement that agreed Guzman with the IMF, Santoro Not only He accompanied him As a national deputy for CABA, but said that “all officials have the obligation to be aligned with the president.”
It was there that Santoro launched his famous phrase: “Is that it does not give the correlation of forces“. Affirmation that was sustained as a mantra, again and again, to justify the location of Never face power groups.
At that time, the president who “had to align” had already shown a vocation of Brock against large economic groups and then go back when making decisions. The emblematic case was with the cereal VicentínConsolidated oligopoly under the military dictatorship. In 2020 he declared bankruptcy despite his exorbitant profits, with the aim of cheating his workers and the State. The former president threatened to nationalize her and soon regretted. Today Vicentín continues to scam the oil workers.
Peronism again promises to face macrismo – now in the city – with candidates who stir against the powerful and then eat the mucos. But lukewarmness is not harmless. In 2023 Santoro proposed a protocol to “regulate social protest” in the city of Buenos Airesand thus “prevent a general blockade.” Santoro not only says that there is no relationship of forces, but proposed a law to file the possibility that these forces are built from below.
Santoro was already a Buenos Aires legislator
Leandro Santoro (although of radical origin) is part of that Buenos Aires Peronism from which the “Albertismo“, conducted by former Alberto Cabinet Vice Chief Juan Manuel Olmos and by the trade unionist and businessman Victor Santa María. Before arriving at the National Government with everyone’s front, they had already done career as governance governors at the CABA and agreed their laws in the Buenos Aires Legislatureeven under the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
In the mandate of everyone’s front, Santoro also contributed to the local government of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. As legislator he voted in favor of:
- A millionaire indebtedness in dollars, whose jurisdiction of litigation is in England.
- Benefits to large multinational construction companies such as McDonald’s.
- He abstained in the Apps Law, which legalized work fraud for youth.
- He promoted the “Vigilant” Facial Recognition Law, known as Neira Law for his block head.
Like any traditional caste politician, Leandro Santoro holds a campaign speech, which then betrays as an official. But it’s not just responsibility for the head of the list.
Since 2023, Union for the country has 18 legislators and legislators in the city. With 20 votes or more, it is possible to block the “special majority” that macrismo imposes with 40 votes, on a total of 60 benches. Those 18 benches, Together with the 3 on the left, they add the sufficient votes to block the special laws of the PRO. But Peronism gives Again and again to macrismo.
Without going any further, this year the Front of the Left Unit was the only political force that rejected the electoral reform of Jorge Macri in the legislature. The Buenos Aires right managed to unfold the legislative elections of the nationals, with all the UXP votes. In this way, Peronism collaborated in avoiding a stage of direct electoral confrontation with the government of Javier Milei, while favoring the electoral speculations of macrismo.
If you want to know more about the candidates who do face the right, within the legislatures and in the streets: look who integrate the lists of the Left Front Unit, with Vanina Biasi and Luca Bonfante.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
