As President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has ‘unfortunately’ failed to rise to the occasion when calling the 18F rally an “opposition demonstration,” PRO party lawmaker Laura Alonso said after echoing CFK’s statements on last week’s so called “Silence March.”
“It is very sad to read that a head of state, who should strengthen national unity, as the Argentine Constitution says, insults thousands of citizens who with sadness marched in silence demanding truth and justice,” Alonso told the TN news channel today and urged Cristina Kirchner to show "understanding and bring calm with her message.”
“This has to teach us to not commit the same mistakes again, to demand those who represent us as head of State to include us all,” the MP insisted as she defended the 18F rally when she said people expressed their support to "the democracy and the Republic.”
“The only thing that will happen from now on, on behalf of the President, will be more and more attacks. Argentineans of good faith have to build a political alternative for the future.”
Meanwhile, UNION PRO lawmaker Patricia Bullrich told the same news channel she was “not surprised” by the President’s statements.
“The President is coming dangerously closer to the speech of (Nicolás) Maduro in Venezuela, where opposition leaders end up imprisoned, accused of coup supporters,” Bullrich said alluding to the current situation in Venezuela where the Mayor of Caracas Antonio Ledezma was arrested on accusations of plotting violence against the administration of Nicolás Maduro.