The Polo Obrero announced that it will begin a fight plan “whoever wins” the runoff, and called for a piquetero plenary session on the Thursday after the elections to define, specifically, what the protests will consist of. The decision was communicated by Eduardo Belliboni, which thus differentiated his organization from the left-wing social movements that today are focused on calling to vote against Javier Milei. “Don’t screw us that we have to choose,” Belliboni said. “To those who tell us ‘don’t be functional’ (to the extreme right), we answer that we are waiting for you at the national piquetero plenary session.”
The leader described the elections as “a process that hides the depth of the crisis and the attack that workers are going to suffer after November 19.” He summarized his reading in one sentence: “Whoever wins, the adjustment will be redoubled”.
The positioning was announced with a press conference at the Obelisk, in which Belliboni was accompanied by two smaller organizations. Thus, they chose to highlight their own profile, distancing themselves from the leftist movements that consider that the priority is to prevent La Libertad Avanza from reaching the government and they do not care about Massa or Milei.
There are not a few: Libres del Sur (its coordinator, Silvia Saraviais one of the best-known faces of the Piquetera Unit), openly called to vote for Massa. “Now it is Massa because we do not want a savage right-wing government in our country. We already lived it. We already suffered it. We already suffer it. We don’t want it to happen again“, says the reference.
He too Front of Organizations in Fight began campaigning against the libertarian. This Wednesday he organized the activity called “A day in Milei’s country” in Congress Square, prefiguring the loss of rights that a far-right government would bring.
In the same way, the Darío Santillán Popular Front He called to “vote against Javier Milei throughout the country.” “We observe an absolutely dangerous scenario in democratic terms if Milei wins the second round. “He proposes privatizing absolutely everything, even the sea,” the group that has Orlando Agüero among its representatives warned in this sense.
At the Obelisk, along with Belliboni, was the Coordinator of Neighborhood Unity- MTR and the Teresa Rodríguez April 12 Movement. The piquetero fighting plan “is important because of the current situation, but also because of how difficult what is coming is going to be, whoever wins the elections,” said Cristina Mena, from the MTR 12 de Abril. For his part, Mecha Martínez, from CUBA-MTR, considered that the runoff “is a circus” and that we will have to continue demanding “from those who leave and those who will come.”
