Alfredo Cornejo criticized the expulsion of three deputies from the UCR: “They think of a small party”

It’s about the legislators Mariano Campero, Martín Arjol and Luis Picat, of the so-called “radicals with a wig”, who will have the possibility of making their appeal before the leadership of the National Committee, in charge of Martin Lousteau, that will end up defining your fate.

Alfredo Cornejo: “They think about a small game”

After hearing the news, Cornejo criticized the position of the space he integrates on his social networks and denounced that it is “a completely wrong decision.” He said, at the same time, that “it also shows that the party leadership, which promoted this idea, thinks of a small party.”

In this vein, he denounced that the initiative is far from “from the historic democratic tolerance of the UCR, from our supporters throughout the country, from our principles and distances us from our electorate.”

Like his counterpart from Corrientes, Gustavo Valdés, the Mendoza leader represents the opposition of the provincial chiefs to the command of Cristina Kirchner’s former Minister of Economy.

This Friday, the deputy Luis Picat He broke the silence and, in the same vein as Cornejo, He fired against the leadership of the UCR, based on Buenos Aires leaders of the party.

Specifically, Picat denounced that “a historical, institutional party, which is supposed to be democratic, of breadth, through which so many have passed from Moreau to Cobos, dedicates itself to these miserable issues if you will.”

On this point, the legislator pointed out that the fact “evidences what is happening at the national level with the party, with a very Kirchnerist perspective”, pointing directly against Lousteau and the president of the National Radical Convention, Gaston Manes.

“Within radicalism there are still three positions but that does not mean having multiple views, from Alvear to Yrigoyen through all those who have gone through radicalism have had different views and we must tolerate them and win in elections,” He assured Radio Miter Córdoba.

Expulsion

In the decision of the UCR Ethics Court, released this week and signed by electoral judge María Servini, it is clarified that “misconduct is not being blamed for having voted away from the block or simply for having changed the vote” but rather they consider “inadmissible to ignore the context in which the reproached behavior took place and the circumstances surrounding the decision to vote in favor of accepting the veto.”

In this framework, they remember that the sanctioned deputies, like José Tournier from Corrientes (member of the bench, but without affiliation to radicalism) met with Javier Milei before changing their decision and supporting his veto, which finally ended up ratified by a third of the lower house.

““It was not a surprise act, to which the participants could have been induced, surprised or deceived, but rather a deliberately provocative attitude, knowing the impact that that encounter would have,” considered the Ethics Court in its ruling.

It is worth remembering that the block of UCR deputies already suffered a fracture, when 12 legislators left the space to form “Democracy Forever”, a bench led by Mariano Juliano.

It has 12 members and is presented as a bench with greater opposition to the ruling party, it is made up of Manuel Aguirre (Corrientes), Marcela Antola (Entre Ríos), Fernando Carbajal (Formosa), Carla Carrizo (CABA), Mariela Coletta (CABA), Marcela Coli (La Pampa), Melina Giorgi (Santa Fe), Pablo Juliano (PBA) , Facundo Manes (PBA), Juan Carlos Polini (Chaco), Jorge Rizzotti (Jujuy) and Danya Tavela (PBA). Juliano will be the one who presides over the block, while the rest of the authorities will be Coli (Vice President), Carrizo (Parliamentary Secretary) and Aguirre (General Secretary).