“Electoral commitment: in the face of threats to democracy” is the document distributed against the party of Javier Milei, in the next presidential elections, on October 22. The writing arose as an initiative of the professor and researcher Hugo Vezzetti and was signed by Beatriz Sarlo, José Emilio Burucúa, Oscar Cetrángolo, Rubén Chababo, Graciela Fernández Meijide, Roberto Gargarella, Adrián Gorelik, Claudia Hilb, Roy Hora, Alejandro Katz, Federico Lorenz, Mariano Llinás, Camila Perochena, Hilda Sábato and Maristella Svampaamong others.
In the text, the threat that the victory of the coalition would pose is mentioned Freedom Advances (LLA) and its leader for culture, human rights and democracy. “It is the first time in 40 years of democracy that candidates with speeches that promote social and political violence, ignorance of any idea of equity and, most especially, the vindication of the military dictatorship, arrive with great possibilities of victory in an election. presidential,” the statement detailed.
The signatories of the document presented three proposals. The first is the formation of a plural and independent convergence that would be made up of politicians, journalists, social and religious leaders, intellectuals and academics and would be in defense of democratic values and human rights. Secondly, they propose that all democratic citizens vote for their different political options in the first round. As a last resort, they request “an explicit commitment to Union for the Homeland, Together for Change, the Left Front and We Do for Our Countryensuring that in the second round, if Milei is one of the final candidates, they will call whoever faces him to vote, whoever it may be.
Another statement signed by the writers is added to this initiative. Claudia Piñeiro, Dolores Reyes, María Teresa Andruetto, Esther Cross, Erica Rivas, Enzo Maqueira and the film director Mariano Galperínin which it was highlighted: “The growth of the alternative right represented by Javier Milei in the PASSED It promoted hate speech that destabilizes the democratic project that Argentine society reestablished forty years ago. The promotion of social and political violence, the stigmatization of social projects, the promotion of individualism as a solution to the profound problems that affect our society, imply a radical cultural change.”
“As citizens of art, literature, science, cinema, music, theater, curatorship and all expressions of culture, we express our concern about the cultural change that involves denialism and the installation of a culture of violence. The privatization of education, health, research, the threat that hangs on the retirement system, on job security, on gender policies, on feminisms and various sexual identities, represent antagonistic proposals to those that we hold as values. from culture and art,” the statement specified.
“We are extremely alarmed that the experience of the governments of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro be repeated in our country, installing an irrational and authoritarian government that upholds the value of violence and weapons as a way of regulating social relations. They were governments that implied a social fracture and a cultural breakdown from which the citizens of the countries they presided over are hardly recovering,” the text noted and concluded: “We feel that we are on the edge of a precipice from which it will be difficult and painful to return. In this sense, we call not to vote for Javier Milei in the October elections and we invite the world of culture to sign this appeal to citizens in defense of the democratic values that we have held for these forty years.”
To these proclamations, a last request was recently added from recognized figures of culture and the artistic environment such as Cecilia Roth, Pacho O’Donnell, Felipe Pigna, Alejandro Dolina, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Esther Goris, Cristina Banegas, Víctor Heredia, Daniel Santoro, Pedro Saborido, Miguel Rep and Lola Berthet.“Comrades and companions. We are experiencing a very difficult time in the country. We must commit to the democracy that cost us so much,” the call stated. In the same text, a call is proposed to meet on Sunday, September 24, at 3 p.m., at the intersection of Avenida Corrientes and Montevideo, under the slogan of “Always more culture”.
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