Governors add claims for works to Nation in full negotiations for extraordinary sessions

After the average sanction in the Chamber of Deputies of the project to suspend the step, among others, now the ruling party will have an even more complex stop, when the initiative of Clean file that already He fell unfortunately in Parliament last year, awakening the fury of the PRO with the Casa Rosada.

Within that framework, the support of the provinces will be essential to underpin the backs, in the face of the shortage of libertarian benches. Therefore, the provincial leaders play their party and Pending claims hurry with the objective that the national government is more receptive and activates pending debts to seal support.

Governors press by public works in the provinces

Last week, by case, the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputoand the chief of cabinet, Guillermo Francostogether with other national officials, they received Northern Governors, with whom they sealed the concretion of various public works postponed in the districts. Almost at the same time, legislators who respond to those same chiefs ended up giving opinion to the suspension of the step.

Given the freshness of that antecedent, no administration wants to stay out. In addition, the paralysis of a key item such as public works in an electoral year, an asset with which provincial bosses usually tell when displaying management in the territory.

To the mentioned cocktail of orders that the districts have with Balcarce 50, the alert for the closure of the Ministry of Territorial Development, Habitat and Housing. According to data provided to Scope For the workers of that portfolio, There are currently 103,367 projects throughout the country.

Of that total, which is distributed between the procrear programs, their own house, rebuild and the National Urban Land Plan, 38.2% are the Pampas region, 24.5% in the NOA, 16.6% in the NEA, 12% in Cuyo and 8.5% in Patagonia. Although some provinces absorbed a percentage of these works, the truth is that the future of many others is an unknown.

Attentive to this situation, the Secretary General of the Government of San Juan, Emilio Aummrecalled that in the province there are active projects, which were held with their own funds. “There are companies that have signed contracts and someone has to take charge, we have to legally propose the nation and we will study that aspect to determine, once we have the information, that the governor determines the possibilities always within the real possibilities of Provincial taxes “the official evaluated.

In parallel, ACHEM reiterated that the administration of Marcelo Orrego intends to handle the two neighborhoods of Procrear. “Of course, at the provincial level that has already been determined by the governor, to finish all the contracts that are signed and the neighborhoods that are initiated are going to end, with the speed that the provincial budget allows us,” He said to Radio Sarmiento.

There were also claims that arrived from the central region. On the whole, Cordova and Holy Faith They sent a letter to Guillermo Francos, in which they express the “need and convenience of carrying out a set of works in the transport system in extra high voltage of 500 kV in the Argentine interconnection system -sadi-, which in addition to resulting in of importance for the set of SADI actors. “

The districts noted that the works “have been subject to previous presentations, requests and analysis in multiple instances by the sector and national authorities involved in the study and definition of the works to be developed for the expansion of the electrical transport system in our Country, which as it is of your knowledge is in a critical state that affects both the demand and the supply of energy of the system in general ”.

At the same time, they considered that the execution of the works will allow “Greater security in the operation of the national electrical system that is in critical condition, the development of new investments in energy generation in other regions of the country that will have greater capacity to transport their production and strengthen the supply of energy to the users of our country “.

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Gerardo Zamora and Raúl Jalil.

Previously, the leaders of Santiago del Estero, Gerardo Zamoraand from Catamarca, Raúl Jalilthey had asked Minister Luis Caputo, also via letter, to enable the construction of a series of aqueducts financed by the Inter -American Development Bank (IDB) in the north.

In the brief, the governors referred to the opening of envelopes, scheduled for next March 5, of the Water Resources Management and Aqueducts Program in the provinces of Argentina – BID loan, on the request for international offers for the execution of the execution of the “Albigasta Aqueduct Network and Potabilizer Plants – Stage 1”. Punctually, they demanded that the project “not to paralyze again.” “We brewed for Nation to maintain their commitment to execute through an IDB loan,” they specified.

Committed projects

Days later, Francos and Caputo held a meeting with the leaders Gustavo Sáenz (Salta), OVALDO JALDO (Tucumán), Carlos Sadir (Jujuy) and Jalilin which there was also the Minister of Economy of Missions, Adolfo Safrán. Together they monitored the progress of the debt exemption regime between Nation and the provinces, among other points.

After the meeting, Safrán specified that the main issue addressed “It was the delay in compliance by Nation of the agreed works in the agreements that were signed last year.”

“From the National Government they explained that these delays do not respond to a problem of restriction of funds, but is due to administrative issues and promised to accelerate the procedures to comply with what was agreed,” said the missionary official.

Finally he commented that from Misiones “The possibility was raised that through the agreements that have been signing the provinces in compensation of nation debts, some works are included with the objective of transferring funds directly to the provinces with the aim of expediting their execution.”

As he said ScopeGuillermo Francos will disembark this week in Tucumán with Vice Chief of the Interior, Lisandro Catalán, a native of that province. Libertarian management thus seeks to underpin their link with the northern leaders, who have been providing key support in the National Congress.