Tomorrow, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) will hold its congress to elect its next authorities. Amidst differences, it has managed in recent days to bring together different sectors, positioning Cristian Jerónimo (Glass) and Jorge Sola (Insurance) for the triumvirate, with one place still to be defined but which all indications suggested would be occupied by Octavio Argüello (Truckers). The congress was called for 9 a.m. at the Sanitary Works stadium in the Nuñez neighborhood, and for the first time in a long time, the labor federation arrives on election day without having resolved all internal discussions and without the names of the future leadership. In the days leading up to the meeting, heavyweights in the CGT, such as Armando Cavalieri (Commerce) and Luis Barrionuevo (Gastronomy), were unhappy with the course of negotiations and with the names of Jerónimo and Sola, but after a meeting last Monday, some rough edges were smoothed. The discontent of Cavalieri, who had been proposing to postpone the elections and renew the mandates for six months or a year, was particularly appeased. Additionally, they warn that the CGT will now have to face the attempts at labor reform that the government of Javier Milei will promote, recently backed by citizens at the polls. In the case of Barrionuevo, his anger persisted, and he would also lose one of the three top seats in the federation, which he has controlled for the last two terms through Carlos Acuña. It was not ruled out that Barrionuevo would continue to negotiate and fight for the third spot in the triumvirate, but until the last hours, everything indicated that it would go to the trucker Hugo Moyano through Argüello, a current member of the tripartite leadership with Acuña and Héctor Daer. The CGT seeks to show renewal with Jerónimo and Sola, two younger leaders compared to the average age of the organization's leadership. Both come from the moyanismo faction, but later distanced themselves without completely breaking from that sector and approached the more 'dialogist' leaders who run the federation ('fat cats' and independents'). Some top dogs of the entity on Azopardo Street did not look favorably on the promotion of Jerónimo and Sola because they do not have decades of experience and do not lead large unions.
