In addition, a group of deputies pointed to those who supported the ruling party. “A rethinking and reorganisation of the UCR Deputies Bloc is necessary,” they said.
Hernan RossiSecretary General of the UCR National Conventionassured this Wednesday that they will promote the ”preventive suspension” of the five deputies of the block that voted in favor of the President Javier Milei’s veto of the new pension reform and the increase in retirement benefits.
”According to Articles 8, 29 and 53 of the Organic Charter of the Radical Civic Union, We are going to promote the preventive suspension of the affiliation of those deputies who did not support the party’s decision to reject the presidential veto of the Retirement Mobility Law, until the National Ethics Tribunal of the Radical Civic Union judges their conduct. In another order, the attitude of the legislators who were organic and coherent with their personal convictions and those of the party is remarkable, Rossi detailed on his social networks.
The five deputies who supported the ruling party were Martín Arjol, Luis Picat, José Federico Tournier, Mariano Campero and Pablo Cervi, the same ones who met with Milei at Casa Rosada.
The letter from UCR deputies to Rodrigo de Loredo
In addition, a group of UCR deputies sent a letter to the president of the bloc, Rodrigo de Loredowhich states: ”It is our political duty act responsibly and firmly in the defense of convictions and values“as we did in the recent past against the previous government. With the same conviction we must put the brakes on the excesses of the current government, without prejudice to supporting initiatives that serve the national interest.”
In it, they made clear their disagreement with the vote of the aforementioned deputies: ”The deputies of the UNION CIVICA RADICAL bloc We express our displeasure and repudiation of the attitude adopted by five members of our bloc who broke a unanimous agreement and changed their vote to support the Government’s total veto of the Pension Law, thus causing a damage to the credibility and ethics of their radical positions in front of the citizens”.
”These facts, added to the unnecessary overacting of a photo with the President of the Nation, constitute a clear political message of belonging to the ruling partywhich is incompatible with belonging to the Radical Bloc, which is not part of the current government. We assume the responsibility of ensuring fiscal balance in Argentina but not at the expense of the weakest, such as retirees,” they added.
In addition, they considered that it is “A rethinking and reorganisation of the UCR Block of Deputies is necessary, allowing those who have chosen another path to follow it, and reaffirming the values of identity of our political space.”
“We are not resigned to the option of returning to the past or adapting to a present that is built on authoritarian practices. We have the duty to create an alternative for the future and to do so by rescuing the democratic values of the UCR: education, development, well-being, equity,” they concluded.
The document bears the signature of Facundo Manes; Manuel Ignacio Aguirre; Marcela Anotla; Fernando Carbajal; Ana Carla Carrizo; Mariela Coletta; Marcela Coli; Pablo Juliano; Juan Carlos Polini; Jorge Rizzotti and Danya Tavela.
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