Militants protested in front of the municipality of Lanús/X
Peronism in Buenos Aires is experiencing times of extreme turbulence. The dispute between Axel Kicillof and Kirchnerism intensifies as the governor rehearses his national projection and episodes read in an electoral key emerge in response to the former president’s independence.
In the last few hours one of these events occurred in Quilmes, where a sector in the Advisory Council allied to Juan Grabois protested violently to reject an ordinance proposed by the municipality to introduce a paid parking system. An unavoidable political fact emerges: the political leader of this district is Mayra Mendoza, one of the most representative leaders of La Cámpora.
The event gave rise to disagreements between Mendoza and Grabois, which in a sense opened a new chapter yesterday in Lanús, another district controlled by Camporismo. There, a group of militants from Emilio Pérsico’s Evita movement and the Union of Workers of the National Economy (UTEP), responding to Juan Grabois, demonstrated at the door of the community. They went to municipal headquarters to demand a pay raise from Mayor Julián Alvarez and even burned a Christmas tree.
In Lanús the requirement is linked to the salaries of the cooperative members who carry out the cleaning. Under the title “Social and National Economy in Emergency,” UTEP released a statement anticipating the march. “The workers of Lanús are organizing for our rights. Because without fair wages and job insecurity, there is no decent Christmas,” the statement said. They demand “living wages”, a year-end bonus, Christmas products, the continuity of collective agreements and the involvement of worker cooperatives. Nevertheless, spokespersons for Juan Grabois distanced themselves from this mobilization.
However, the Álvarez government sees these pickets as a political move and, in this sense, is targeting leaders close to Kicillof. Community sources said it was “a picket with political intentions and not a real demand from the residents of Lanús.”
In fact, they distributed photos in which Silvio “Tinino” Denis Guzmán, a leader linked to Agustín Balladares, a leader of the Evita movement of Lanús and a former city councilor in that district, can be seen at the protest. Balladares was at a meeting of the Right to the Future Movement (MDF) in Ensenada on Monday and took a selfie with Kicillof.
Apart from the formal lawsuit, it is impossible not to link it with what happened yesterday in Quilmes, where serious incidents occurred during a lawsuit against the municipal planning plan.
From La Cámpora they target not only Grabois, but also parts of the Evita movement. The sector led by Máximo Kirchner, which includes the two mayors Mendoza and Alvarez, suspects that the social leader would work closely with the governor.
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