Our Argentina is an anomalous country.
Politics is responsible for providing certainty, transforming and improving reality, so it is clear that it is where our anomaly lies.
It executes and sustains it with its continuous putting the cart before the horse: people before ideas, mere talk before concrete action, personal interests before the common good, spending before revenue, inefficiency before efficiency and more.
An empty narrative that lays bare the lack of a fit-for-purpose and a strategy for the growth and federal development of our country.
The experience of our last two governments, coupled with the constant and growing disputes of this campaign, in which the many candidates contrast with their few ideas, confirms that coalitions that are put together to win elections are not good for governing, and neither are they good as opposition, in their attempt to return to government, to generate proposals that will enthuse the citizenry.
They are a monotonous and sticky gossip of strident noises, which we Argentines, fed up with being fed up, have to put up with.
In recent weeks the hubbub has reached intolerable heights over the "enlargements" in the opposition coalition. If the cart were not in front of the horse, it would be very easy to know who can, who cannot, when and how to join a coalition, and save us the discord.
How should a coalition be formed?
Between parties on the following bases:
✔️Una clear identity.
✔️Una mission, vision and purpose.
✔️Principios defined, rules and a cultural pact that sustains them.
✔️Un short, medium and long term macro micro governance plan.
✔️Un dashboard for an annual target plan to check progress, setbacks or stagnation of that governance plan.
✔️Equipos permanent and stable working groups in charge of setting up and monitoring the programme, from which the ministers for each area and their replacements will emerge. No one governs alone.
From there, parties that do not have insurmountable contradictions can agree on principles of minimum consensus, unite in a coalition and establish their rules and a common government programme. Charting a course, having a future horizon, a strategy and tactics to achieve the goals.
Only on the basis of this solidity and conceptual coherence will it be possible to dialogue and work with other political forces in Congress, with which, in turn, it will be necessary to agree on the same or new principles of minimum consensus in order to establish State Policies that are essential to achieve our delayed development.
The only way to get Argentina out of its decline is to put ideas and how to implement them first, and not first "let's get together to see if we can win" and "then we'll see what we do".
The conditions mentioned today are not present in any of Argentina's parties, ergo not in the coalitions either.
The coalitions end up as collisions (*1) that are creaking and non-functioning, whose members are navel-gazing and where precious time is wasted while we are all getting poorer, living in greater insecurity and with less access to health and education.
The two coalitions are irreversibly broken inside, they never had anything more essential to unite them than winning the election for which they came together, so after this new electoral period it will be necessary for them to reconfigure themselves. Outwards or inwards, i.e. separating or re-founding themselves. Because there is no common thread, there is no affectio societatis. They have neither sense nor destiny. And in this meaninglessness and syndestiny they will drag us, once again, all Argentines.
At the same time, Argentina's political parties must work thoroughly on the points mentioned above, remembering that an identity is never built on the basis of fighting another identity, i.e. on the basis of mere reactivity. An identity that is born only as reactivity has no chance to unfold and grow, only to shrink until it succumbs.
An identity is built and strengthened in its own essence, with a philosophy and a purpose, which grows regardless of who is in front of it.
It is the big difference between being and seeming.
The concrete proof is that in the face of the weakening of the ruling party, the opposition is also weakening.
This year Argentines will once again vote for the least bad. No matter how much the huge egos of our candidates swell and inflame, none of them excites us.
It is only necessary to see that in the last 2021 elections the opposition, in defining places such as La Matanza, was unable to capitalise on the loss of votes of the ruling party, and then both continued to lose voters who migrated to a third candidate (today competing for a third and) with a chance of being very competitive in the election, because abstention and blank votes are growing (people vote "nobody" because they feel that "nobody" represents them) and because there is no doubt that this new candidate will be voted for by the majority of young people on the electoral roll. Young people whose future has been taken away from them.
A hopeless future because Argentine politics is a fair of vanities in a country where 60% of our children live below the poverty index, and in which it is loudly declared to fight it or make it zero, but in which no party, candidate or coalition presents a consistent macro-micro federal Plan that proposes how to put our accounts in order, enlarge the economic pie and stop, once and for all, to go around the world begging in a shameful way, managing our misery and scarcity.
2023 must be the beginning of the end of our decline. And for that, we citizens must make a Copernican turn in relation to our role. To be protagonists. We must be clearly aware that united, with a strategy, we have power (*2) and much to offer.
We must inform ourselves and set the agenda about the State Policies we need to grow, and demand that our senators and deputies meet to promote the laws that establish them. To do this, our Constitution gives us and guarantees us a tool that belongs to us: Law 24.747 on Popular Initiative (*3)
"We, the representatives of the people of the Argentine Nation", reads our Preamble.
Politicians, from the president down to the lowest official, must be clear that none are above our constitution and that they owe us competence and accountability.
At the same time, we citizens must bear in mind that we are votes. Those votes that politicians go crazy for.
Argentina Country Plan: From dreams to facts.
It is up to us.
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(*1) https://www.planpaisargentina.org/oficialismo-y-oposicioncoaliciones-o-colisiones/
(*2) https://www.planpaisargentina.org/del-poder/
The FINAL DELIVERABLE says it will be ready by the end of 2022.
Was this date met?
Good afternoon, Juan. In Decalogues:https://www.planpaisargentina.org/decalogos/ The proposals that will be presented as bills through the Popular Initiative Law 24.747 are already posted. Until then, they are open for approval, dissent and contributions from the public.