What seemed like just another internal move became a key move to guarantee the ruling party the long-awaited “governability.” Something that since The Daily Left We have already been denouncing: peronismfar from opposing, It is one of the supporters of adjustment and regressive reforms that punish millions of workers and retirees.
In the Chamber of Deputies, the Peronist governors distanced themselves from Kirchnerism, with the Tucumán Osvaldo Jaldo and Raúl Jalil from Catamarca at the helm are accelerating efforts to consolidate their own bloc. The objective is clear: negotiate with more force and profit from Milei’s needs. No principles or program in defense of the rights of working people; only provincial interests and search for greater resources. The move includes Gustavo Sáenz (Salta), Hugo Passalacqua (Misiones) and the permission of Gerardo Zamora (Santiago del Estero), who acts as the point guard in the shadows.
The excuse of the “federal agenda” hides the reality: Northern Peronism seeks to detach itself from Kirchnerism, but not to confront Milei’s chainsaw plan, but to seal agreements that allow them to continue managing businesses, positions and fresh resources. The advance on the Fuerza Patria block is imminent and, as they privately acknowledge, “If you have a separate bloc, it is not that you are leaving Peronism. Afterwards everything can be rearranged.” Pure opportunismone of those that traditional leadership handles perfectly. The people, well thank you: they only appear in their speeches when it is necessary to ask for the vote or justify some pact behind the backs of the majority.
Jaldo, Peronism with a wig and the delivery of rights
It is not surprising that Osvaldo Jaldo was the first to openly support Milei’s plan. Already in the middle of the campaign, the governor of Tucuman was friendly with the libertarian ruling party and now directly endorses the Labor Reform project – a fierce attack on the historical rights of workers – and the lowering of the age of imputability. As expected, the entire Tucumán Peronism, from local Kirchnerism to historical references, aligned itself under the motto “Tucumán Primero”, which did nothing to stop Milei, but did guarantee governability and votes in Congress for the adjustment.
The move was not free: the closing of ranks in Tucumán included the removal of the “Fuerza Patria” seal to provide Noguera with a place on the list of deputies, the return of Tafí Viejo to the Fiscal Pact and the end of a million-dollar dispute with the province. A give and take that cost rights and conquests, and that makes it clear that Peronism only thinks about negotiating positions and resources, never about fully confronting the adjustment that destroys salaries, health, education and retirements.
The new bloc, which already has a tentative name – “Federal Country” – could add the three deputies from Salta, the four missionaries, the Tucumans and the Catamarcas, plus Karina Maureira from Neuquén and even some loose libertarians. The immediate objective: exceed the floor of 12 members to compete for places on key commissions and gain weight in the distribution. But The strategy is not to stand in front of Milei, but to negotiate and accompany “in some laws” while marking “distance in others.”
The postcard is completed with the movements in the Senate, where the Federal Conviction bloc – with representatives from Catamarca, Jujuy, San Luis and La Rioja – has already distanced itself from the PJ and seeks to replicate the governors’ scheme. They say it bluntly: they will not return to the fold, but they will not build a real opposition either. Kirchnerism, meanwhile, is trying to avoid a massive fracture that would leave it without the first minority, but it only manages to ask for unity and then – one day – confront Milei’s plan.
Decadent Peronism and the urgency of a workers’ alternative
What is at stake in Congress is not just a partisan internal issue: It is the starkest example of the decline of Peronism as an option for those who suffer the adjustment. The seals change, the alliances are recycled, but they support the same program at the service of financial capital and the employers. The same names that yesterday promised to stop the adjustment today openly collaborate with Milei, prioritizing “governance” and their place in the thread before any defense of popular rights.
The experience is overwhelming: Peronism, in all its variants, has already failed with promises that it never kept. While The CGT and the union leaders bet on passivity and letting the government govern, the governors negotiate labor and tax reforms that destroy historical achievements. The only force that drove real resistance in the streets and in Congress was the left, along with thousands who are not resigned to seeing their living conditions pulverized.
Therefore, since The Daily Left We insist on the need to overcome Peronism: open a great debate on the construction of a working class party, with class independence and without bureaucrats or businessmen. Because only such a force can truly confront the adjustment and fight for another future for those who move the country every day. The governors’ agenda, their blocs and their pacts are part of the problem, not the solution. The way out is from below, building a political alternative for the workers.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
