In the act of the CGT for the anniversary of the death of Juan Domingo PeronPresident Alberto Fernandez he maintained that “Perón meant a before and after for Argentina” and chose to highlight Perón’s attitude in his third presidency, after exile: “Perón told us that Argentina could not be divided into two factions and that we needed unity.”
“Power does not come from seeing who has the pen, power comes from seeing who has the ability to convince“, launched the head of state in an act without the company of the vice president Cristina Kirchner.
Alberto’s phrase resounded in the midst of the political hypotheses woven around the two acts of homage, that of the president in the CGT and the one that Vice President Cristina Kircher will lead tomorrow in Ensenada. In the previous one, the CGT chose to start the act with a message from Perón in which he maintained: “Remember workers, unite. Be more brothers today than ever.”
“Perón made the greatest social revolution that Argentina remembers. He understood that there was a part of Argentine society that was on the margins, that had no rights, that only what the most powerful decided came to him,” Alberto valued in his first words, sitting next to the triumvirs Hector Daer y Carlos Acuna in the “Felipe Vallese” room of the historic Azopardo building, to whom Fernández reminded how he was assassinated by the military dictatorships for being part of the Peronist resistance.
The head of state assured that Perón’s passage “makes Argentina different from the rest of Latin America” by “logical” rights such as unionization, retirement and vacations; and she recalled that she “had an amazing partner, who was Eva.” “I always highlight a fact of Evita: she was only on the public stage for seven years and those seven years made her a the most beloved woman of the Argentine people“, Alberto recalled in the act without the presence of Cristina, the most voted president in the history of the country, as the unionist highlighted Antonio Calo in advance of the act.
The president assured that the power groups “were ruthless” with Perón and highlighted as an “enormous lesson” that of the former president to leave “without spilling blood”. “The day that Perón left, the first military assassins arrived,” Alberto sentenced and reviewed the long Peronist resistance until the elections, without proscriptions, which returned him to the Casa Rosada.
“He kept alive the unity of the movement 12,000 kilometers away,” Alberto highlighted and stressed that “he understood that it was necessary to end the divisions that were harming Argentina.” In the act, Fernández was accompanied by the National Cabinet and several governors, among them, the Buenos Aires Axel Kicillofthe chaco Jorge Captainich and the Catamarcan Raúl Jalil.
President Alberto Fernández later stated that Juan Domingo Perón “was a pragmatist who understood that the most important thing was the tools to maintain rights” and considered that today “we must give life to the popular economy“, whose actors “cannot be abandoned” in the current world context. he warned in his last term that it was “indispensable to create values to govern.”
In other moments of his presentation, he referred to the policies and decisions that his government carried out to coping with the coronavirus pandemic. He affirmed today that during that period “the presence of the State was seen” and recalled that, “despite having received an indebted country”, his government worked so that “no Argentine would be left without medical attention”. “We had to work to give everyone the care they needed, we set up intensive care rooms and more than 30 modular hospitals. We have the peace of mind that no Argentine stopped being treated when he got sick“, held.