After the general debate of the failed Omnibus law, Facundo Manes It became a trending topic on Twitter and stayed there for four days. The thing is that his vote, against the project, was in rebellion to what his radical bloc had decided. His team commissioned a study to evaluate the responses, in a social network where anger is commonplace, but the result surprised them: They assure that half of the comments were in favor of the deputy.
“When we dropped out of the candidacy, no one called us. It seemed like we had leprosy. In the last few days the phone rang again,” they graph. at the small table of the radical deputy.
Between His party colleagues reproached him for selfishness in cutting himself. But Manes responds to the protests by only trying to be consistent with what he thinks. By chance, the neuroscientist was once again at the center of the scene. And he doesn’t dislike it: His plan, ultimately, is long-term. When it is time, he will want to compete again for the highest positions in the Executive.
Disputes.
The abrupt and messy return to a clean slate of the commission project left Manes in a better position than the rest of his bench. The thing is that after trying to give him the tools to govern, The dialogue opposition remained in the same place as the rest of the legislators.
“You cannot delegate those powers to this guy,” Manes protested in the hallways when they told him what the role of radicalism would be in the face of the law demanded by the President. “We need statesmen, not lions,” he said in the House. Finally, in general, he voted separately from the radical bloc.
“Facundo does not believe in classical leadership. The leaders cannot control him and he is going to continue doing what he thinks,” they say in the neuroscientist’s circle. And they add: “He got a band of votes in the province of Buenos Aires. What’s more, he got more votes than many governors who try to impose their conditions and force deputies to vote in a certain way. Radicalism forgets that.”
Finally, after the law began to be dismantled in the treatment in particular, the Government made the drastic decision: “They were losing the votes and decided to withdraw the law from the floor, go back to committee. “What we ask for is rationality!” said Manes.
Inside the block, what happened had the flavor of a personal victory: those who accompanied in general rejected some articles in particular and that made people explode. Milei, who placed the radicals in the category “traitors”, all of them equally. Manes, at least, had rebelled before and made his position clear.
Paraphrasing the President, in the middle of the debate the deputy uploaded a photo with the national constitution to his Instagram and wrote: “They don’t see it.”
Gestures.
While some legislators from the UCR bloc reproached him for his selfishness, Manes responded with his alleged act of altruism in December, when he stepped down from the presidency so that the bloc would not split again. With the formation of the new chamber, the neuroscientist sounded like a possible president of his caucus: There was a statement proclaiming him at the head of the block. But the governors gave the go-ahead to Rodrigo de Loredo which ended up gathering the necessary votes. From there the tension between the radicals rose.
That is why Manes did not blush when it came to differentiating himself from his space. In fact, he did it again after Miguel Ángel Pichetto claimed a certain lack of coherence, because the opposition did not vote for Milei’s extraordinary powers, but the same parties did so with Axel Kicillof in Province. “All sectors of the chocolate industry voted for the governor of Buenos Aires to grant an economic emergency,” he protested. But in the Manes sector they were quick to differentiate themselves: while a part of the radicalism had accompanied, lThe six legislators mentioned in Manes had refused. “That’s following a line,” they boasted outside the venue.
Criticism of Manes also came from deputies outside radicalism. The legislator of the Pro Martín Yeza also complained for the rebellion of the neuroscientist: “If 95 percent of your block votes in one direction and you in another, What is appropriate is that you make the resignation available,” he crossed it. He did not respond, but Nazarena Mesías, a provincial legislator from his space: “They decided to take a public position without consultation for one of the two candidates to end up occupying places in their current government,” she refuted.
Beyond the particular positioning of a law that is shipwrecked, Manes is running for the long term: he has not lost his desire to compete for the presidency. He is going to build from the bottom up: “For next time, we already know who used us and who we can trust,” they say around them.. And they add, with exaggerated optimism: “With Facundo as the candidate and everyone lined up behind, the winner was surely not Milei.”
