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15th August 2011, 20:20
From the Fracción Trotskista ft-ci.org
[Unofficial, provisional translation]
Press Release
The Left Front got more than 500,000 votes
Monday, August 15, 2011
(Buenos Aires, August 14, 2011) Christian Castillo, leader of the PTS and Vice Presidential candidate for the Workers Left Front, stated that "in the context of a conservative election, where the working population has chosen to back the government as a lesser evil, given the bosses' opposition candidates, we received massive support from workers and young people in these primary elections. The projection of the official count shows that we will surpass 500,000 votes. We have achieved a big increase, compared to our total of 200,000 votes as different forces of the left in the 2007 Presidential elections, and the 400,000 that we got in 2009. We know that a big group of our supporters expressed their agreement with our condemnation of the attempted ban, in the undemocratic required minimum imposed by the election reform driven by Kirchner supporters and radicals, that we will continue fighting to eliminate, since, for instance, in October the Proyecto Sur candidates will not be allowed to compete. With a view to October, we will mount a big campaign, together with the forces that make up the Front, with the socialist and anti-capitalist program that we have already raised in the primaries, which is the only progressive response to the crisis that is worsening internationally, and that will inexorably affect our country. We are the only ones who are explaining that the bankers and the big monopolies must pay for the crisis."
He added that "the projections show us that we will reach 80,000 votes in the Capital and around 60,000 in Córdoba, where our candidate, Hernán ’Bocha’ Puddu,an outstanding oppositionist among the auto workers, in the [provincial] capital, beat Omar Dragún, the SMATA bureaucrat who heads the list of De La Sota's Justicialist Party. We got a lot of votes in the Province of Buenos Aires, exceeding the required minimum in almost all categories; a lot of votes in Salta; we will reach 25,000 votes in Mendoza and 15,000 in Neuquén, more even than the big provincial election where we got a deputy. We are surpassing the minimum in Jujuy, La Pampa, Tucumán, Santa Cruz and other provinces. We greet and are grateful to all the men and women comrades that have supported us with their votes and to all the members of the parties that make up the Front and the hundreds of independent men and women comrades that joined it. Without all of them, this victory would not have been possible. It strengthens us in the commitment to all the workers' and popular struggles, and we know that all the militants will consider this victory as their own."
[Unofficial, provisional translation]
Press Release
The Left Front got more than 500,000 votes
Monday, August 15, 2011
(Buenos Aires, August 14, 2011) Christian Castillo, leader of the PTS and Vice Presidential candidate for the Workers Left Front, stated that "in the context of a conservative election, where the working population has chosen to back the government as a lesser evil, given the bosses' opposition candidates, we received massive support from workers and young people in these primary elections. The projection of the official count shows that we will surpass 500,000 votes. We have achieved a big increase, compared to our total of 200,000 votes as different forces of the left in the 2007 Presidential elections, and the 400,000 that we got in 2009. We know that a big group of our supporters expressed their agreement with our condemnation of the attempted ban, in the undemocratic required minimum imposed by the election reform driven by Kirchner supporters and radicals, that we will continue fighting to eliminate, since, for instance, in October the Proyecto Sur candidates will not be allowed to compete. With a view to October, we will mount a big campaign, together with the forces that make up the Front, with the socialist and anti-capitalist program that we have already raised in the primaries, which is the only progressive response to the crisis that is worsening internationally, and that will inexorably affect our country. We are the only ones who are explaining that the bankers and the big monopolies must pay for the crisis."
He added that "the projections show us that we will reach 80,000 votes in the Capital and around 60,000 in Córdoba, where our candidate, Hernán ’Bocha’ Puddu,an outstanding oppositionist among the auto workers, in the [provincial] capital, beat Omar Dragún, the SMATA bureaucrat who heads the list of De La Sota's Justicialist Party. We got a lot of votes in the Province of Buenos Aires, exceeding the required minimum in almost all categories; a lot of votes in Salta; we will reach 25,000 votes in Mendoza and 15,000 in Neuquén, more even than the big provincial election where we got a deputy. We are surpassing the minimum in Jujuy, La Pampa, Tucumán, Santa Cruz and other provinces. We greet and are grateful to all the men and women comrades that have supported us with their votes and to all the members of the parties that make up the Front and the hundreds of independent men and women comrades that joined it. Without all of them, this victory would not have been possible. It strengthens us in the commitment to all the workers' and popular struggles, and we know that all the militants will consider this victory as their own."