Alberto Fernández and Mujica at the National Buenos Aires: "I'm proud of public education"

Alberto Fernandez, the main opposition candidate in the next elections, has spoken with the former president of Uruguay José "Pepe" Mujica in the National Buenos Aires, the school where the father of the former chief of staff of Nestor Kirchner studied. "Argentina is complicated and threatened," he told the students' auditorium.

The candidate for the presidency of In front of everythingHe made a pessimistic analysis of the reality of Argentina with a "battered society," while affirming that "it is certain that we can change things." "Several times we have fallen and several times we get up. They want us to believe that we are a country that always comes up against the same stone. "

"They leave us debt, businesses that close, unemployment, hunger," he said about the current government. "With Néstor, we are going into history to pay everything to the Fund, it has been paid for by all of Argentina," he said. He then criticized Mauricio Macri for his vision of education: "We have a president who thinks that some have the chance to study in private education and others the misfortune of falling into public education.".

"The president should not know, but public education has given five Nobel laureates and many presidents in Argentina. That's what differentiated us. We must be proud of public education. He also criticized the governor, Maria Eugenia Vidal, who had stated that "the people born in poverty did not come to the university" by criticizing the opening of a new headquarters for the high studies in various neighborhoods of Buenos Aires.

Then he talked about the role of women and promised the creation of "a Ministry of Women, Gender Equality and Respect for Diversity"We will open the doors to make Argentina the best we deserve."

But it was when he promised to work for youth that he introduced in his speech, for a moment, for inclusive language: "I promise to work every day so that every boy, every girl … that I do not learn yet … "He said and was interrupted by applause and shouts from the audience. "So that you can build your future," he added.

For his part, Mujica told the students: "The history of humanity is a cemetery of utopias, but thanks to that, we walk". He also focused on Latin American unity. "You are the brothers of all the poor who are in America."

"I do not know what direction Argentina will take, but I know that she will come out of her anguish, He went out a thousand times. The former Uruguayan president closed the meeting, which was also attended by the candidate for the position of head of the city government, Matías Lammens.