The Conflict in Quilmes The conflict in Quilmes occurred after the Campora-aligned municipal government ignored the request of Patria Grande, which attempted to intervene, to not lay off the car parkers. Instead of handing the business over to a private company, they sought "an alternative with social inclusion".
"There was a very successful experience in Luján where workers were integrated into a system where they cared for and organized public space. To question the empathy they have for those who need it most is the furthest thing from the existing reality," they stated before attacking Grabois.
Regarding the reaction of mid-level La Cámpora officials to the stance taken by Grabois and Patria Grande regarding the "trapitos" conflict in Quilmes, the MTE responded bluntly in statements to the Argentine News Agency. "They can't handle a proposal, a constructive criticism. We are not backing down," they affirmed.
With this turn of events, Grabois could lose his main political support and be left isolated and adrift in the swampy habitat of Peronism. In the persistent savage internal struggle between Axel Kicillof's Movement for the Right to the Future and Kirchnerism, the head of Patria Grande has always remained aloof, although his political and emotional bond with Cristina Kirchner naturally placed him closer to that pole.
This "Christmas" episode in Quilmes could eventually modify Grabois's system of alliances and bring him closer to the governor of the province, with whom he has a correct political relationship.
For now, Patria Grande clarified to the Argentine News Agency that they "don't give a damn about the internal struggles" and that they will not "make a political tango" out of the conflict with La Cámpora. "We will try to repair the relationship. But they chose to leave it in the hands of a shady businessman," protested the consulted sources from MTE and Patria Grande to the Argentine News Agency.
In Lanús, another district governed by La Cámpora, protesters from different social organizations such as the Evita Movement (close to Axel Kicillof) and UTEP burned a Christmas tree this Tuesday and threatened the mayor Julián Álvarez.
Buenos Aires, December 23 (NA) – To the surprise (and displeasure) of many, on August 17 of last year Juan Grabois signed on as the third candidate for national deputy for Patria Force with the blessing and sponsorship of Cristina Kirchner, who valued that the leader of the Patria Grande Front did not break the electoral unity of Peronism and paid him handsomely.
La Cámpora and, mainly, the former president, were the main supporting pillar that allowed an "enfant terrible" like Grabois to make a visible place for himself in Peronism, where many leaders look at him with distrust, as a sort of "black sheep" within the family for his disruptive ideas, his volatile temperament and his foul-mouthed style.
The "trapitos" episode in Quilmes, brutally repressed at the request of the local Campora administration to quell a heated protest against the municipal ordinance that establishes a private metered parking system (depriving the car parkers affiliated with the MTE of their livelihood), escalated to the point of harshly confronting Grabois with the on-leave mayor Mayra Mendoza.
The feud between Grabois and La Cámpora deepens after the violent clash with Mayra Mendoza "I clarify that the internal struggle between La Cámpora and the MDF is none of my business, but when political arrogance leads to the closure of social dialogue in a context of famine, a red line is crossed: hitting the workers two days before Christmas is despicable, whoever does it," ranted Grabois against Mayra Mendoza and her successor at the Municipality of Quilmes, Eva Mieri.
The Campora's response was not long in coming: "I am not going to fall for your psychopathic attempt to provoke me." "Your ways, your manner, your strategy to try to drive the rest crazy and make people feel bad, won't work with me," emphasized Mendoza, and stated that she was elected by the people of Quilmes to bring order to the municipality.
The current provincial deputy is number three in the hierarchy of the organization led by Máximo Kirchner, and represents the hardest line in the confrontation with Axel Kicillof.
Grabois knows that fighting with Mayra Mendoza means fighting with Máximo Kirchner, and by extension, with Cristina Kirchner.
The head of the UP provincial bloc of deputies, Facundo Tignanelli, expressed solidarity with the current and former mayors. "Both Mayra Mendoza and Eva Mieri are looking for solutions for the municipality of Quilmes and its neighbors." "If the mayor doesn't back down, what happened in Quilmes will happen," they warned.
In dialogue with the Argentine News Agency, Patria Grande and the MTE clarified that they were not part of that mobilization in Lanús and that they also do not know what the specific demands were. "When we are part of a mobilization, we don't hide. We have no problem talking to anyone," they concluded.
