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Two Socialists Elected In Neuqun Province, Argentina
Post on: March 19, 2019 Wladek Flakin
Last Sunday, revolutionary socialists won two seats in the parliament of the Neuquén province in Argentina. One of them is a leader of the Zanon workers who occupied their factory in 2002 and now produce under workers’ control.
Last Sunday, the revolutionary left won 6.21% of the votes in Neuquén. The Workers’ Left Front (Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores, FIT) participated in the elections for governor and parliament in this Argentinian province. In a highly polarized election, the FIT won slightly more votes than in the elections of 2015, holding onto the two seats they have had for the last four years.
Andrés Blanco, one of the two new legislators from the FIT, declared:
“We are workers who make politics, and our seats are going to be at the service of the struggles of the working population.”
Raúl Godoy, who served in the legislature for the last four years and was now a candidate for governor, added:
“In a difficult election, in which the bosses’ parties spent millions and millions of pesos, we were able to keep the seats in the hands of socialist workers.
More:
https://www.leftvoice.org/two-socialists-elected-in-neuquen-province-argentina