video42 to 25. UCR leaders distanced themselves from Lousteau after his rejection of Milei’s DNU and signed a separate note

After the president of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), Martin Lousteauwill vote against DNU 70 which was discussed on Thursday in the Senate and was rejected by 42 votes to 25, a group of party leaders – four governors and the space block holders in both chambers – They signed a separate statement in which they distanced themselves from that decision.. There they said that they support the idea of ​​promoting new reforms in the Government, although they noted that the management of Javier Miley must call for consensus and abandon the tone of the electoral campaign.

The letter carried by partisan stamp It is signed by four of the five radical governors: Gustavo Valdesfrom Corrientes; Alfredo Cornejofrom Mendoza; Carlos Sadir, from Jujuy; and Leandro Zdero, from Chaco. The Santa Fe native did not sign it Maximiliano Pullaro. Yes, the block presidents in the Senate and Deputies joined, Eduardo Vischi and Rodrigo de Loredo.

Under the title We want a change in the country and a modern UCR, The leaders introduced that Argentina needs “agreements and consensus” that will allow the country to get out of the “stagnation and decline” that they blamed on the Kirchnerism. “We respect the path that Argentines chose in last year’s elections with a clear mandate for change and we are going to contribute with the fair and necessary tools that the Government needs to advance its management plan“, they stated, after the president of the party considered that the megadecree of the mileista administration was “unconstitutional” and will vote against.

“We want a change in the country and we work to build a modern party, which accompanies the structural reforms that Argentina needs today. We support the order of public accounts to get out of this debacle and avalamos that the discussion of moving forward so that there is fiscal balance and not living with fiscal deficit as has happened in the last 65 years, which increasingly flattens our possibilities for growth,” the radical priests also indicated.

Senator Martín LousteauRodrigo Nespolo – THE NATION

In this statement that also comes after joint expressions that were issued last week from the party presidency and from the Radical Convention, in charge of Gaston Maneswith guidelines that anticipated the position of a sector far from the Casa Rosada, those closest to Milei said: “We support the discussion and the promotion of necessary reforms in the national government to keep our society afloat“, suffocated by inflation, tax pressure and poverty to which Kirchnerism subjected us with a denialist, discriminatory and corrupt model.”

However, they pointed out that these reforms must be ““fruit of consensus” and for that reason “The Executive should not be tempted to prolong the electoral narrative.”

Convinced that “profound changes” are needed, the four governors and the two legislators committed to “contribute with conducive actions” to achieve agreements and closed: “We want a cultural change, which promotes an intelligent, effective and simplified State, which is focus on the main tasks such as security, education, health, defense and justice.”

The “no” to DNU 70

In Thursday’s session, Lousteau was joined by Pablo Blanco. They were the only two UCR senators who rejected the megadecree. Maximiliano Abad he abstained. He also voted against the initiative Edith Terenzifrom Chubut, which despite being radical integrates another block: Cambio Federal.

These positions generate a strong division within the party, which was also reflected in the special session by the project that sought to modify the retirement formula this week in Deputies and that went against the Government’s intentions.

While most of the bloc in the lower house, which answers to De Loredo, did not come down to the premises, five deputies linked to Facundo Manes collaborated to achieve the whose. Finally, the legislators of We Make the Federal Coalition, who promoted the initiative, were unable to obtain the number to discuss it.

The full statement

Statement from UCR leaders against Loustau

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