The latest statements by deputy Gonzalo Winter (CS) found reproach in the opposition. Maintaining that the government and fundamentally the Frente Amplio should resume “the battle of ideas” and leave the silent state in which it had remained since they took office, provoked reactions of different kinds among the ruling party. There were those who criticized them fiercely and others who They found in their reasoning the opportunity to return to their lost path.
In an interview with the newspaper Third, The deputy deepened his analysis and reinforced his sentence: “In the second period of the government, the ruling parties have to go to the dispute of ideas and the Government also has to assume a role in the dispute of ideas, because if not “He’s going to lose everything.”
According to the deputy, in this second period that starts this Super Monday, the government “must assume a more important role in transmitting to citizens what its vision of the world is and why that vision perfects democracy and allows development.”
In search of giving practical meaning to what he calls “the battle for ideas,” Winter exemplified it with the stuck pension reform project. In their logic, the Minister of Labor, Jeannette Jara, and her Treasury counterpart, Mario Marcel, persist in the solidarity fund not out of a mere whim, but because there is a conviction that it is essential for reasons of social justice that there be more pensions. you say. But for that – Winter observes – “you have to convince society, because on the other hand the AFP Association is spending millions to convince it otherwise.”
In this sense and in response to the statement made by the mayor of Maipú, Tomas Vodanovic (RD) that the time had come to leave symbolism behind to get to work on management, Winter stated that resuming the battle of ideas is not symbolism , but on the contrary, it would be reasoning in the pure sense of practice.
And he exemplifies it like this: “If citizens become convinced that taxes are theft, the tax reform is rejected. If the tax reform is rejected, there is no money to fix Maipú’s Cesfam. The battle of ideas is practical. It has strictly tangible content. If citizens are convinced that the Solidarity Fund is a theft, there will be no pension increase for the elderly of Maipú. This is not a matter of symbolism. Winning the battle of ideas allows the children of Maipú to go to school, for the police of Maipú to have armored cars and for the elderly of Maipú to have decent pensions.”