The fracture became inevitable. With one renunciation letter loaded with reproaches to the leadership of Martín Lousteau and the National Directorate of the Radical Civic Union, Gastón Manes He formalized his departure from the presidency of the National Convention of the party. In parallel, his brother, the national deputy Facundo Manesprepare for Sleep this Friday in Tigre Its new political space, with Buenos Aires epicenter and opening orientation. The project aims to build its own pole outside the traditional UCR and already began to build bridges with non -Kirchner Peronism sectors, including the local mayor Julio Zamora and the former minister Florencio “El Flaco” Randazzo.
The exit of the Manes marks a turning point in the crisis that is going through radicalismand that had its most recent expression in the humiliating electoral defeat suffered by the Lousteau sector in the city of Buenos Aires: The list headed by Lula Levy, driven by radical evolution, did not reach 3% of the votes and was out of the Buenos Aires legislature. It was the coup of grace to a driving that, according to the Manes, lost the course, strategic thinking and the vocation of building a national project with its own identity.
“Instead of ‘no one is saved alone’, the ‘save who can‘”, Gastón Manes wrote in his letter, sent both to the president of the party and to the militancy. He added:“ What was once a community of thought and action, has been reduced to a kind of confederation of provincial positions, each with its emergencies, its local logic and its circumstantial pacts. There has been a will that expresses what we once went: a party of ideas, not circumstances. ”
The resignation was not taken “with lightness or spite,” said the lawyer and ex -conventional. But with the “Lucid sadness” to verify that what had worked for years – a UCR with national voice, organic thinking and common identity – had blurred before a centrifugal reality, where each leader attends their game. “I resign because I am faithful to my principles, not to the positions,” he said, clearly marking the ethical tone that he intends to print to the new project.
In this climate, Facundo Manes It is proposed to capitalize on the disenchantment both inside and outside the UCR. The formal presentation of its space will be made in Tigre, a district that summarizes part of the new political map that begins to delineate in the province of Buenos Aires. There, the mayor Julio Zamora —Historically linked to Peronism – represents one of the figures with which Manes would seek to articulate a Alliance that transcends the logic Kirchnerismo-Antikirchnerism. Leaders such as Randazzo also appear in the radar, with whom the neuroscientist has already had conversations in the past, and even sectors of Buenos Aires socialism.
The goal, in the words of Facundo Manes himself, is “Rebuild the political center” With a modern, republican and focused on the challenges of the 21st century: education, science, mental health and development with equity. For that, he understands that it is not enough to dispute partisans without clear rules or common horizon. “Politics cannot continue arguing charges, you must discuss ideas again,” he repeats in each public presentation.
The new space still has no definitive name, but is emerging as a Bonaerense Broad Front with national projection. Aims to collect the disenchanted vote with polarizationoffer an alternative to the decline of the traditional parties system, and reactivate the representation of middle and progressive sectors today orphans of clear references.
With this step, the Manes not only mark their break with Lousteau and the radical evolution power scheme, but also open a window towards an eventual reconfiguration of the Argentine political map. In times of realignment, crisis of representation and ideological disappointment, its movement could become a catalyst for a new center coalition not contaminated by the old crack.
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