2023-10-23 01:44:08
With a performance practically identical to that of the Simultaneous and Mandatory Open Primaries (Paso) on August 13, the Left and Workers Front (Fitu) celebrates a modest achievement: the incorporation of one more deputy to its bench in Congress.
In the first round, the presidential candidate of the left, Myriam Bregman, obtained 2.65 percent of the votes, almost the same percentage achieved in Paso: 2.61 percent.
The performance was better in the Province of Buenos Aires, with 4.33 percent in the category for national deputy, which would open the chance for Cristian Castillo, the PTS leader, to take office. As in Fitu, the seats are rotating and Castillo would begin the mandate, and then leave the place to another member of the force.
In this way, if this trend is ratified, the left bench will be made up of four deputies from the PTS: Myriam Bregman, Nicolás del Caño, Alejandro Vilca and Christian Castillo and a representative of the Partido Obrero, Romina Del Plá.
Despite the meager harvest of votes yesterday, it is the first time that the left has obtained that degree of representation in Congress: it had never had five deputies before.
With little else to celebrate, the left valued the entry of a legislator in the City of Buenos Aires (Caba): Celeste Fierro, from the MST, and the possibility of entering a second place, with the final count.
With the song of “Left Front, Fuck Bosses” in the gallery, Bregman interpreted that in this election “the vote prevailed against the ghost train represented by Javier Milei and the far-right candidates, who came to deny the 30 thousand detainees disappeared in the military dictatorship and against another candidate like Patricia Bullrich who said all the ‘right’ things that could be said, with a high level of violence, even talking about exterminating opponents.”
“The law not only denied the disappearances, but promised that it was going to privatize everything, that it was going to take away rights, some that cost the working class of our country many years of struggle,” Bregman said, in another section of his speech.
The vice presidential candidate valued Bregman’s participation in the presidential debates to “unmask” both Milei and Bullrich, as well as the official candidate, Sergio Massa, who he said “is tied to the adjustment dictated by the IMF.”
“The IMF policy is not what we saw in recent days, but rather it is the one that demands more tariffs, more deterioration in the living conditions of the great national majorities,” Bregman distinguished.
The candidate highlighted that although the electoral flow did not increase, after the debates they perceived “enormous sympathy.” That is important, she noted, because “when we have to face adjustments, they are companions we are going to meet on the streets.”
Del Caño dedicated a section of his speech to demanding support for the Palestinian struggle, against Israel’s bombings of the Gaza Strip. The lack of a clear condemnation by Bregman – and Fitu – of the massacre perpetrated by Hamas may have been another blocking element for the growth of his support.
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