“Promoting an alliance with LLA without having strengthened the party would be a useful idiot,” defined Marchioli, president of the party. National Senator Fama did not rule out an agreement.
The electoral year is already underway and the first movements in the parties have begun, heading towards the national legislative elections. The electoral climate heated up in recent weeks in Catamarca when the radical national senator Flavio Fama did not rule out an alliance with Freedom Advances (LLA) in your province. “Promoting an alliance with LLA without having strengthened the party (…) would be a useful idiot,” was the response to Scope of the provincial deputy Alfredo Marchioli, president of the Catamarca UCR, regarding a hypothetical agreement.
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In his statements, Fama clarified that although there is still time to define positions, “it is valid to venture into this hypothesis.” “A union at the provincial level is necessary not only of radicalism but also of the entire opposition arc to confront the Peronist government that we have in this province,” he said in an interview on Splendid AM. And he considered that the current provincial government “began to show signs of caudillismo.” “The LLA brand, the seal, garpa, may be attractive to some, in my case it is not so, but I do not rule out an alliance that can confront Peronism,” he concluded.
On April 27, members of the Catamarca UCR will have to elect new party authorities but, in the same way, Ámbito interviewed the current president, provincial deputy Alfredo Marchioli, about a possible agreement with the libertarian party, still in formation. “The UCR of Catamarca was a pioneer in electoral fronts and it is enough to remember what the Civic and Social Front was that ended with the Saadi, after the murder of María Soledad Morales, which echoed the interests of the people of Catamarca,” he said. He acknowledged, in any case, that there are “conflicting positions” on an alliance with LLA that should be debated in a party convention after the change of authorities to define whether progress is made towards an alliance, the conditions and its characteristics. He also ruled out going for re-election. “That’s it, I had to lead in one of the most difficult moments, after the return of democracy, and I think we did a lot,” reflected the white beret who is part of Evolución, the internal line that has the senator as a reference. Martin Lousteaupresident of the national committee.
According to Marchioli, the first task of the members must be to strengthen the UCR, agree on five non-negotiable axes that include education, health and public works, among others, to only advance in an analysis of whether an agreement with other forces is necessary. “There is no doubt that our party should be the backbone of a hypothetical alliance, as we are true opponents and with a territorial presence throughout the province,” he said. “We must find a point of balance because it would be of no use to reach an electoral agreement if later, as has already happened to us, flags were lowered, we lost spaces and we would become a bag of cats,” he noted.
To conclude, Marchioli made a reflection “for the wig radicals”: “promoting an alliance with LLA without having strengthened the party, without consensus and without a vision of what we want for Catamarca, would be to be a useful idiot and work for another project for free.” “.
Short circuit
The president of the capital committee expressed herself in this same sense, Juana Fernandezthrough a statement. “The Radical Civic Union cannot mortgage its identity or submit to lesser forces for temporary convenience. If Fama wants to put on the wig and follow the President of the Nation, I invite him to disaffiliate from the UCR and join the party he wants. We from the UCR we are thinking about a transversal alliance and not about marrying anyone,” he stated.
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The unity of the UCR is not built with attacks and double speeches @flaviofamaok. Let us put aside unfounded accusations and work for a strong and coherent radicalism. The true commitment to members is to -respect- their will and their elected authorities.
— Juana Fernandez (@fernandez_dip) September 18, 2024
The leader claimed the strength of Catamarca radicalism and assured that it is one of the pillars of the provincial political system. “We continue to be, together with the PJ, the only party with solid representation throughout the province, with mayors, senators and deputies, both provincial and national. We are not going to lower our pants in the face of smaller forces that lack structure and territorial roots” , he pointed out.
From the front sidewalk, the president of the libertarian bloc in the provincial Lower House, Adrian Brizuelacriticized Fernández for his position. “I understand your anger towards the libertarians because if it were not for the irruption of the armies of Javier Milei in Catamarca, today I would be a deputy again, I would still be bolted to a bench,” she said in an interview. And she recalled that Fernández had already expressed herself in very derogatory terms towards LLA on another occasion. “On that occasion, one of the greatest exponents of the rancid caste, he said verbatim ‘the UCR does not lower its pants against lesser forces’ but came second without structure, without resources and without a single visit from candidate Milei during the campaign,” he stated. “If you want to recover spaces, members and voters within your party, do it, but not at the expense of ignoring other forces,” he stressed.
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The rejection of any proposal for opposition unity exposes those who are functional and financed to maintain the status of Jalil’s 20 points above, control of both chambers, TC, Judiciary, etc. It is the difference between a political project and a personal project.
— Adrián Brizuela (@Brizuela2Adrian) December 30, 2024
Faced with this scenario of internal boiling, it is expected that a large part of the internal debate in radicalism, with a view to the renewal of party authorities, will revolve around whether or not there will be an alliance with LLA.
Source: Ambito