The scheme would have the private sector as an axis and a coordination with the provinces is also contemplated. It is recognized that the effect of the “chainsaw” of the first year and a half of the management of Javier Milei must be urgently reversed.
The economic team lasts an infrastructure investment plan with a central role for the private sector. The scheme will include new called to tender and aims to reactivate a key variable of the economy, today strongly beaten by the tax adjustment.
“I think that It is unquestionable that we need to increase infrastructure investment very importantly And there it has been developedwork has been done on a plan, ”said Vice Minister of Economy, José Luis Daza In a meeting organized by Faithful this week.
The official admitted that the depth of the “chainsaw” applied by the government of Javier Milei in the first year of government and much of the second is unsustainablebecause it affects the capital already installed. In fact, in the province of Santa Fe the government has decided to put posters on national routes warning that the State in which they are located are the responsibility of the National Government.
Daza said that apply The infrastructure plan in the first year of the emergency “was difficult to be able to carry out.” “But You will start running quickly with road tenders, with tenders of all kinds to give greater role to the private sector, ” The Deputy Minister anticipated.
The government’s plan, according to the official, anticipated He would contemplate coordinating with the provinces who and how the works will carry out. It should be remembered that before Milei’s decision to bring to zero capital spending in the first year of management, several governors They asked that the works be transferred to finish executing them.
The other problem to solve is that the works program that had been launched during the government of Alberto Fernández, some 3,500 projects were stopped and the companies Construction companies stayed at that time with a debt of $ 400,000 million.
“There are still pending debts. The payments corresponding to works executed in 2023 ”have not been paid, The head of the Argentine Construction Chamber (Camarco), Gustavo Weiss.
Clear rules for companies
Daza said that “private investment requires clear rules, reliable contracts, Respect for entities in contracts and requires huh capital, requires capital cost that makes those projects that are going to be executed profitable. ”
“So, There are obstacles and difficulties, but we are working on all of themthat is the direction in which we are going to go, ”said the official.
Another element to consider is the infrastructure works financing scheme. It can be through the public sector, which generally nourishes funds from international organizations or purely private. In the libertarian administration it is more believed in the capacity of companies to develop works at a lower cost.
But this implies that there is long -term stability in the financial variables. The Public Public Participation Plan (PPP) to build paths launched during the management of Mauricio Macri because the cost of the guarantees that the companies that had been awarded works of works of Routes had shot the clouds, while the government of that time could not control the dollar or rates.
Source: Ambito
