More than 200 national leaders of the UCR called to vote against Javier Milei in the runoff

More than 200 radical leaders published a statement this Thursday in which they called to vote against Javier Milei in the ballot that will be held on November 19, in a clear suggestion to choose by the ballot of Sergio Massa. Although they did not explicitly support the Unión por la Patria candidate, the coreligionists reported that their objective is “promote” a positive vote.

“We are members of the Radical Civic Union of various generations. We understand and agree with the letter and spirit of the position taken by the highest authorities of the National Committee in their document and subsequent press conference on October 25,” the radicals clarified, referring to the conference they led Gerardo Morales and Martin Lousteau to express the neutrality of the centenary party in the runoff and give freedom of action when going to vote.

In that sense, those who signed the document – among them Federico Storani and Maria Luisa Storanivice president of the National Committee of the UCR – considered that “within the freedom of action that party unity protects, we are firmly convinced that each radical must vigorously repudiate offenses to the party and their achievements by the candidates for president and vice president of La Libertad Avanza.”

“The destruction of radicalism has a purpose: to affirm anti-democratic positions that the UCR has always fought. The rude insults to Hipólito Yrigoyen already Raul Alfonsin They intend to eliminate the great radical contributions to the coexistence of Argentines and discredit with falsehoods their top leaders, who no longer belong only to radicalism but to Argentine society. They question Alfonsín’s historic decision with CONADEP and the Federal Chamber to judge and condemn the crimes of the dictatorship, the basis of the Democratic Pact that banished coups d’état. Whoever slanders our heroes in such a way considers us his enemies. “Civilization or barbarism, proposed that great president who was Domingo Faustino Sarmiento,” they added.

They also highlight: “For the only time someone dares to disqualify the very idea of ​​social justice, of reparation for the dispossessed. Are opponents of the very bad current government and we will be opponents of anyone who triumphs in the runoff. The Argentine people have placed us in the opposition and we will be there. We have severe reservations with the official candidate and we understand those who vote blank. To date, none of us have voted for candidates outside the UCR. As a lesser evil, in self-defense, coexistence and Democracy, we promote a positive vote next Sunday, November 19, to defeat the La Libertad Avanza formula that threatens radical values ​​and Argentine society.”

Before the National Committee resolved neutrality, María Luisa Storani had announced that she would bring the idea of ​​“voting for Sergio Massa” to the national table, but she clarified: “I don’t know if it will be shared by the rest of the members of the table. My only position is against Milei-Villarruel. It is a space where we are going to debate this, but the decision will not be made tomorrow either. We have different positions with people from other provinces, because they are different realities.”

“If Milei wins we will not be able to pay salaries to public employees in January, February, March and April, at least. He proposes eliminating the Co-participation Lawwe the governors of the Norte Grande have an agreement with the Minister Massa so that they can compensate us for the drop in Income Tax,” added the Jujuy governor in the last few hours.

Among the signatories of the statement that emerged today are Juan Manuel Casella, Luis Changui Cáceres, Juan Radonjic, Raúl Borrás, Raúl Alconada Sempé, Enrique Paixao, Juan Carlos Tróccoli, Mabel Bianco, Ricardo Campero, Daniel Larriqueta, Oscar Muiño, Enrique Illia, Ana Alfonsín, Pedro Calvo, Diego Barovero, Victor De Martino, Luis Bunge Campos, Carlos Antonio Gorosito, Luis Menucci, Mariana Rabanal, Gustavo Lema, Carlos Pogoriles, Pedro Azcoiti, Juan Carlos Valente, Alejandro Echegaray, Nicolás Breglia and Nicolás Salvatore.

Eduardo Pisani Torre, Mario Scholz, Gabriel Montero, Oscar Alejandro Bruni, Luis Alberto Rodríguez Fontán, Adriàn Mastronicola, Adriàn Gindin, Gerardo Filipelli, Pablo Galeano, Jorge Lannot, Florencia Saborido, Laura Echezarreta, Riel Santurio, Agustina Monner Sans also added their support , Marcelo Pascua, Marcelo González, Jorge Covián, Magdalena Ferreyra, Lorenzo Bonardi, Javier Maccari, Luis Cerini, Pablo Ferreyra, Juan Carlos Kozow, Alejandra Garcia, Javier Roncero, Mercedes Germillac, Edgardo Ferraris, Oscar Helguera and Mirta Quiroga, among others .