Sergio Massa reappeared on the political scene and the Frente Renovador will join the strike of 24E

The former Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, met this weekend with the twenty mayors of the Renovation Front and they agreed that they will mobilize in the strike of the General Labor Center (CGT) on January 24. “This is not the time for lukewarm,” said one of the district chiefs of the former presidential candidate’s space through social networks. I didn’t go anywhere,” he said of his public reappearance from the Buenos Aires coast. After losing the elections, there was much speculation about what direction Sergio Massa was going to take in the political and personal scene. He had offers from the United States and at this point he was expected to be working there. However, he is active and working in politics, although he says he does not want the limelight. The meeting analyzed the collapse of income, the loss of purchasing power of the middle class, the daily increase in prices of mass consumption products, the fall in the profitability of the countryside due to the addition of the PAIS Tax, the increase in fuels, withholdings and the fall in international prices. Sergio Massa and Malena Galmarini together with 20 mayors of the Frente Renovador analyzing the situation in the country. The Renovation Front will mobilize in the CGT strikeRegarding the role that the Renovation Front would take in the face of the great austerity of the government of Javier Milei, the mayors decided that they will mobilize on January 24 together with the CGT. Although the former presidential candidate insisted, as did Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, that the strike was a hasty measure. “I would have gone from minor to major,” he told union leaders weeks ago when he met with them. I imagined first a social week of protest as happened in France last year and, later, going on a strike. The Renovation Front will meet on Wednesday on Córdoba Avenue and 9 de Julio, and they made it clear that they will not deduct the day of strike from the workers under their dependency, as well as the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, and marking rejection of the warning of the national government that will deduct the day from state employees who bow to the measure of force. Massa asked the district chiefs to meet with producers in their districts against the withholdings and to defend the measure implemented when he was in charge of the Ministry of Finance of zero withholdings to the regional economies. “You have to go out and fight with the local liaison tables so that they don’t raise the retentions,” he warned. “There is another way,” said the mayor of Castelli, Francisco Echarren, in a message via X (formerly Twitter). “We met with Sergio Massa to support and mobilize the strike. We are going to stand up for our people and our homeland. We are going to take care of work, production and national industry. That is why we are going to dialogue with the countryside to avoid another increase in withholdings and primarization of exports, which means thousands of more unemployed and less growth for the country. This is no time for the lukewarm. There is another Argentina, we are going to build it,” said the district president.

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