Under the title “Unity of the popular field: moderation or people”, intellectuals, academics and cultural leaders who identify with hard Kirchnerism published a letter criticizing Alberto Fernández, in which they affirmed that “the ‘Unity’ of the Front de Todos was already broken in November 2021″ and that when “the same government generates the expectations and the disappointment of the expectations, it is the cruel moment where moderation turns into impotence”.
The letter came as a response to the statement that was released last week by a sector that answers to the President – “The unity of the popular field in difficult times” – and in the framework of the internal tensions that the Front of All has been going through, much more after the debate that took place in Congress in relation to the renegotiation of the debt with the IMF.
Some of the signatories were: Teresa Parodi, Eduardo Basualdo, Liliana Herrero, Roberto Salvarezza, Adrián Paenza, Cynthia García, Alberto Kornblihtt, Rita Cortese, Victoria Onetto, Carlos Rozanski, “Dady” Brieva, Artemio López, Daniel Tognetti, Roberto Caballero, “Mempo” Giardinelli, Andrea Varela, Marcelo Figueras, Araceli Bellota, Rubén Dri, María Pía López, Alejandro Kaufman, María Sondereguer, Sandra Russo and María Seoane.
“Welcome the exchange of ideas and the explanation of the positions and nuances on how to advance in the construction of the political, economic, cultural, social and Latin American program. Public debate is a strength of any national and popular political project. It is never a weakness ”, they expressed in one of the first paragraphs, by way of introduction. And they maintained that“The unit is not maintained because it is named”, but rather “it is maintained if the policies that gave rise to it continue to be active”, alluding to the repeated request for “unity” on the part of Albertism.
“Government policy has reached its most tragic point: the preparation of announcement scenarios where no announcements are made. It is the failed practice of anticipating policies that do not materialize: the government itself generates the expectations and the disappointment of the expectations. It is the cruel moment where moderation turns into impotence. They decide to tone down politics and, as an unintended effect, suppress politics. They propose to go slowly but end up immobile. They pretend to speak softly but become inaudible. Everything that appears moderate ends up being weak and without transforming capacity. It is necessary to remember: governments are not evaluated by their intentions, but by their effectiveness”, they later assured in one of the harshest excerpts of the letter, after the President announced that “the war against inflation” would begin last Friday.
They also pointed out: “When you try to talk to everyone, you end up talking to no one. When he pretends not to fight with anyone, he ends up fighting with everyone. If he is not willing to represent the political base primarily, he ends up representing no one. The conflict exists: not assuming it, far from expanding support, dilutes those who do not play a leading role in political nothingness”.
“The problem of the unit is solved by replacing the origin and the addressee subject of the unit. It is not solved by an appeal to reduce the intensity (that is, to moderation). The most important problem is not one of speed or magnitude: it is of the orientation of the policies”, They sentenced in the same direction, highlighting the difference, according to their vision, between “moderation” and “unity”.
The letter from the K intellectuals thus responded to the request of those who support Alberto Fernández’s administration, who called for the internal conflicts to be placated and for unity to be maintained. In fact, yesterday Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero admitted that “ignoring that the Frente de Todos is going through a critical political moment today would be foolish,” three days after spokeswoman Gabriela Cerrutti confided that Cristina Kirchner was not responding to messages to the President.
In the same tone, the Kirchnerist academic and cultural leaders assured: “We insist, in the dimensions of electoral and social representation, the ‘Unity’ of the Frente de Todos was already broken in November 2021 when more than four million voters who accompanied him in 2019, they no longer did so in the mid-term elections. Rebuilding it is the goal.”
“When in 2019 the compañera Cristina devised and called for the construction of a Front for All as an electoral tool to defeat the crudest neoliberalism, she addressed all the forces of the national-popular field. The raison d’être of this Frente de Todos was clearly not only to defeat Macrismo but to replace and increase the rights and inclusion policies of the 12 years of national-popular governments mobilizing the people and never moderating their demands or ‘ordering unsaddling until it clears up”, they continued.
Near the end, they charged again against those who called for “moderation”: “If an impasse were truly perceived, as the document ‘The Unity of the Popular Field in Difficult Times’ seems to suggest, it would be an irresponsible act, almost bordering on lese Patria, leave an organic field to fascism by betting on political moderation. It is not that, because fascism threatens, it is necessary to put cold cloths on the forehead of the People, but rather the reverse: a demotivated People is the opportunity for fascism to grow.
“The discussion, from our point of view, is about the orientation of public policies that must express the unity of the forces that make up the Front of All. As someone said these days: ‘The differences that we have between those of us who debate what is the best way to solve this problem are infinitely less than the differences with those who generated this problem.’ You get away with more politics and not with more confinement. It comes out sharing with the people the knowledge of the difficulties, facing them and not avoiding them. It goes out between all and all “, the letter concluded. And the internal one of the governing coalition is gigantic.
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