Cristina Kirchner reappeared with criticism of Milei’s government: “It must give a change of direction to this policy”

As part of the inauguration of the “President Néstor Kirchner” microstadium in Quilmes and for more than two hours, former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner gave her first speech of the Milei era. Throughout the broadcast, she was seen touring the establishment with the local mayor, Mayra Mendoza, then entering the stage with “Quemarás”, the new song presented by Wos together with Indio Solari and, after a brief presentation, she took the floor to affirm that “there is no better way to remember who was my life partner with management, with work and with works.” “I listened to the president on a national television and the truth is that I decided to come here to reflect on this particular moment that Argentina is experiencing and what I called ‘The anarcho-capitalist experiment and the useless sacrifice to which our people are being subjected,'” he added. In this way, he addressed a speech in which he strongly questioned the Milei government, specifically on economic issues, focusing on the surplus announced by the president, public works and even praised the march carried out last week in defense of public education. Fiscal deficit or surplus”In Argentina it has never been possible to explain reality from the right or the left, they are categories of thought alien to our history, alien to reality,” he began and continued by pointing out that “the truth is that when I heard, for example, congratulating themselves on the public surplus of the first quarter and it turns out that you did not pay the CAMESA, energy, public works, what you owe to the provinces or to public universities. It’s like you at home after you haven’t paid for electricity, gas, water, expenses, rent, the lady who works, the babysitter and say I have a surplus, no brother, you don’t have a surplus. Look at all you owe, surplus from where.” Then, he declared that “to believe that the problem in the Argentine Republic is the fiscal deficit is to misunderstand Argentina, the economy and the world. Of all the countries in the world, only three have a fiscal surplus, until recently there were two, Denmark and Norway, now Australia has been added,” and that “they know what the largest fiscal deficit in the world is, that of the United States, of course, having the dollar machine and a few aircraft carriers can give you the luxury of having a deficit.” The curious thing about all this is that they want to present to us, 21 years after the Argentina that we received back on April 27, 2003, the same policies. On Monday, the Chamber of Deputies will discuss the famous ‘Law of Bases’, whose main axes are privatizations, labor reform, tax reductions, etc. I want to tell you that when Néstor became president, everything was private, even retirements,” he said. He also remarked that “so that no one thinks that I am beating the patch against the fiscal surplus, in this country, in the six years that there was a fiscal surplus, Néstor Kirchner governed and in 2008 who is talking,” and that “there were in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and what happened in 2008, the world fell, Lehman Broders fell, crisis on a global scale, it could not be sustained and two years later the energy balance was reversed.” That is why I say that this historic feat and more for a quarter, we who were six years old, are we national heroes? No, I know that militancy likes heroism but no, men and women with special responsibilities who take charge of history and face it with courage, that’s what we were, we weren’t heroes,” he exclaimed. Privatizations, Unemployment and Remembrance of the Menem GovernmentIn response to the parliamentary discussions that have been taking place lately for the state-owned companies, he assured that they are “neither privatist nor statist, first we recovered water and energy through a law in Congress because there was no water in the entire Buenos Aires suburbs, there was not a single line laid, we recovered Aerolíneas Argentinas because at the height of 2008 the State paid for the fuel of the company’s planes Iberia, which was Spanish, and paid the salaries of all the staff, had no choice but to take it back.” In addition, he recalled that “with YPF also when Repsol had turned an oil company into a financial company and then we had to recover because we had to recover energy sovereignty as it was really recovered in 2012”, and highlighted: “Separate mention, in March Vaca Muerta broke production records, almost 400 thousand barrels per day, You’re welcome.” We also recovered the pensions for a very simple reason, the State was paying 60% of the pensions, because the AFJPs were left with the cream with the highest salaries and the lowest salaries were paid by the State, absurd,” he continued and added: “MIt reminds us of the Argentina of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, when they took away the riches and you had nothing left, so more than anarcho-capitalism it sounds like anarcho-colonialism.” Regarding the immense number of layoffs, he referred to the fact that “perhaps many Argentines have become unaccustomed to unemployment, but the truth is that when Néstor was elected or came second on a day like today, there were 25% of unemployed, a quarter of the population,” and that “it is tremendous that the salary is not enough and as it was not enough during our government, which was the problem we had. For the first time, registered work with poor workers had never happened, and it’s ugly and it’s bad, but worse than not having a salary, is not having a salary at the end of the month, this is the great drama that the president must understand.” The president must give a change of direction to this policy, this thing of the market has no failures, what happened with the prepaid, he had to pick up the line and send himself back because he did not solve anything,” he said. After the deregulation of securities, a measure announced by Javier Milei in the DNU that he signed after his inauguration, prices got out of control and the Government had to take measures in this regard. On this, he said that “what he should have done was to resume the State’s capacity to regulate the price of prepaid, which was a capacity that we established at the end of my first government, which was in 2011.” Because it occurred to us to regulate the prepaid, because Néstor didn’t do it, because when he came to the presidency no one had prepaid, those who have money had nothing more,” he clarified and continued: “Then they forget and become anti-Peronist and anti-Kirchnerist, but it doesn’t matter, we want them the same, we will always love them and today the solution is not even to recover those faculties.” The prepaid ones have to be submitted to the Health Insurance Law, they can’t be left to handle those brutal sums of money, they say that they all melt down and the one who until recently was president of the House got tired and doesn’t stop buying everything that is health-related, as if you melt down, It’s a lie,” he explained. Criticism of Javier Milei’s governmentIn another stage of his speech, he asked: “What is the problem with this president who says that businessmen are heroes? The problem is that he is very dogmatic, not president, when the hat is very small, don’t shrink your head, enlarge the hat, it’s out there and if you do we’re going to help you, because nobody wants it to go badly, if it goes badly for you, it goes badly for all Argentines.” I want you to know, Mr. President, if they want to turn Argentina back into a country where there are no industries, where they want to put us in a sort of elimination of the entire middle class, then I am going to declare myself an avatar of light blue and blue, men and women of light blue and blue as the flag to defend the homeland. Not us in Cologne again,” he argued. In fact, he joked that the “first certainty, I’m talking until 2019, how many times did you hear about Cristina’s manners, Cristina’s intensity or I don’t know what other things, you will agree that after this president I am the Countess María Eugenia de Chikoff”. Subsequently, he maintained that “the people elected us in 2019, because they remembered how they had been until 2015, the problem was that someone thought that because of good manners they had voted for us and it was not like that, so when you think it was because of good manners, we ended up as we finished and I take charge too”, and that “I always go to the front, I’m not one of those who throw a stone and hide my hand, I take care of everything. So I think it’s a first learning experience, they voted for us because they wanted to have a quality of life again, an organized life.” Later, he went on to say that “it is not the time for reproaches, it is the time for reflection and analysis because there are many donkeys on the loose and a few living people on the loose who, taking advantage of that stupidity, install things that are not,” and added that “it is good that they listen because the leaders and the militants have to be prepared, we cannot go out to the bartola anymore or go to a television channel to swear at another comrade.” When you go on television or on the radio, go talk about these things, which are the ones that matter to people, what do you think of Juan de Pedro, of José,” he said. So, I know it’s a bit critical, someone is going to get angry, especially Máximo who always tells me, ‘don’t start with your master class back because you have me rotten’, yes well, I have you rotten but if everyone knew and studied a little more, we could defend things better,” he commented. March in defense of public educationIn the final period of his participation in the event, he referred to the mobilization promoted by society last Tuesday and stressed that “the president of the public education system is the president of the public education system.”If we had indoctrinated in the schools he wouldn’t be president, but what is this man saying?” We have to start discussing seriously because resources are scarce and we have to make them count and we have to discuss because if we don’t want to discuss, others come and argue with us from the outside and from a place of crap, which is not that they are interested in the kids knowing, we have to understand this,” he emphasized. In that sense, he said that “they talk about the last 20 years as if 21 years ago we were in I don’t know where. They have the clear objective of demonizing, vilifying and helping the collective forgetfulness, the people have a lot of problems, the young kids who know what was happening.” The other day there was a wonderful mobilization of Argentine society, no one should be fooled, they were kids, young people who went with their parents, with their friends. I don’t remember in recent years such a large, transversal mobilization, from people from the upper class, middle class, lower class, for the university,” he continued. Finally, he began to close his participation: “Thank you all and ask all the comrades, militants and compatriots in general, please join forces together, so that they do not turn Argentina back into a wasteland of the unemployed with scientists who are leaving”, and that he recalled: “When in Avellaneda I said one day that each comrade, Each compañera has the marshal’s baton in her backpack, it wasn’t to stick it on the head of another comrade, it was to take the marshal’s baton and go out into the street so that all this can be denounced and all this explained to society.” It is necessary to rediscuss the country we want, we have an intense responsibility as an opposition. Acknowledging what we did, admitting what we lacked and looking forward, because we always have to look forward,” he concluded.

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