The letter to Cristina Kirchner from one of the senators who broke the Frente de Todos bloc: “The government has moved away from the priorities that our people demand”

The senator Guillermo snopek published this Wednesday a letter addressed to the vice-president Cristina Kirchner to explain why he broke – along with four other lawmakers – the Frente de Todos bloc in the Upper House. “The government has moved away from the priorities that our people demand,” the Jujuy man said in the letter.

Writing, with criticisms of the president and the governor of Jujuy Gerardo Moraleswas received by the Vice President and distributed by the Senate Communications Department.

“My decision is motivated, first of all, by the growing distance I feel from the management direction of the President of the Nation, Alberto Fernandezfar – in my humble understanding – from the priorities that our people demand,” Snopek said.

Besides legislator Jujuy, Edgardo Kueider (Entre Ríos), Carlos Espínola (Corrientes) and María Eugenia Catalfamo (San Luis) broke the bloc, through an official statement. Alejandra Vigo (Córdoba) will join this group.

“The absolute deterioration of the rule of law in my province, which began at the end of 2015, has only worsened since 2019. It has been, in this sense, a great disappointment for all of us who believed that the Alberto’s hypothesis on Fernández could represent a new future”, the native of Jujuy pointed out in his letter, also criticizing the provincial president Gerard Morales (DUC).

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In addition, he denounced that in 2023 “we are witnessing a relentless carnival of arrests at the request of Governor Gerardo Morales, in order to discipline and intimidate the opposition on the eve of the electoral campaign. The indifferent gaze of the national government is eroding the hope that human rights can once again be respected in Jujuy”.

“I have always defended the banners of Peronism and I believe that today the principle according to which “better said is done” applies more than ever. For this reason, and for all of the above, I am communicating my decision regarding the blocking,” he concluded.

Hours after the shock that caused the split in the block of senators in Vigo, lawmaker Jujuy presented more arguments to justify his decision. He did it on the show The two voicessignal NTwhere he confided that the decision to create a new legislative bloc in the Senate had been “discussed” with the vice president, Cristina Kirchner and not the president Alberto Fernandez because “he lives elsewhere”.

“We discussed this decision with the vice president, she issued a statement and talked about how things turned out. I won’t pretend to say whether he approves of it or not,” Snopek said. Moreover, the senator from Jujuy excused the president of the Senate for his criticism of the government. “You have to direct her to vice, because the constant attack does not hurt her but the Senate, she does not have the responsibility of the government,” Snopek argued.

In the same vein, he stressed that the Senate, under the command of Cristina Kirchner, “gave the president all the instruments” as a sign of support for the administration.

In return, he again questioned the performance of President Alberto Fernández, for “disarming the table of hunger” and neglecting pressing problems for citizens such as inflation. “Today we Argentines live badly and in Jujuy we live worse,” he summed up.

In a statement, the new bloc in the Senate said: “We seek to be an alternative from which the possibility of contributing to the reflection on the Argentina that we want for ourselves and future generations is prioritized, without cracks. , with discussions that plan short, medium and long term solutions for all Argentines. We are committed to unity, respect and dialogue in order to find common ground, leaving aside the petrified rhetoric and personalism that has harmed us as a society so much”.

After the break, the ruling party will now have more difficulties achieve quorum in the chamber (37 legislators) Faced with the new scenario in which the bench will have 31.

It should be remembered that the Cordovan governor Juan Schiaretti there Juan-Manuel Urtubey -former governor of Salta- announced earlier this month that they would be running for president in a new “outside the crack” space. As detailed in a statement at the time, both “expressed their decision to be candidates for the presidency and to compete within this new space, including those who want to integrate this non-Kirchnerist Peronist proposal”.

With this premise, Urtubey and Schiaretti emphasized that they would take “no STEPS with Kirchnerism”. “Neither with the K nor with the Frente de Todos”, they pointed out. On the other hand, they talked about the national and international scenario and the economic context that the country is going through.