As anticipated by Ámbito, a request will emerge from the assembly of the 10 vice-governors to subsidize the electricity rate during the hot months.
This Tuesday began in InnsMissions, the 52nd Plenary Session of the Parliament of the Great Northwhich will develop an extensive agenda over two days. The 10 vice-governors and 130 provincial legislators will agree on a closing document in which, as anticipated, the Scopea request for a subsidy in the region for part of the electricity consumption due to heat and for it to be incorporated into the Budget 2025 specific items for unfinished public works and for others that have already been approved but to which the current national administration has not allocated resources.
The activities started with a visit by the vice-governors to the Government Housewhere they were received by the Governor Hugo Passalacqua. After the obligatory greetings, around 9 o’clock, in thel The Two Constitutions Hall of the Legislative Chamberhe President of the Chamber of Deputies, Oscar Herrera Ahuadheaded the welcoming ceremony and the opening of the deliberations. The activities are carried out in three instances. On the one hand, the executive table, that of the vice presidents, will work; on the other, in thirteen commissions the legislators will debate on various topics (around 100 bills); while the last stage – this Wednesday – will be the plenary session, where the documents that arise from the commissions will be analyzed. There they will be approved or rejected.
Parliament is chaired by Vice Governor of Santiago del Estero, Carlos Silva Nederand present at this meeting in Misiones are his peers Silvana Lorena Schneider (Chaco), Antonio Oscar Marocco (Salta), Alberto Bernis (Jujuy), Teresita Leonor Madera (La Rioja), Rubén Dusso (Catamarca), Pedro Braillard Poccard (Corrientes), Eber Wilson Solís (Formosa) and Miguel Ángel Acevedo (Tucumán).
Was Herrera Ahuad who confirmed the advance of Ámbito on a request so that, just as the subsidy governs in the Patagonian provinces for cold zones, on gas and electricity rates, an identical measure be applied between November and March for the 10 districts of the Great Northexclusively for electricity, due to the high temperatures, which in the hot months exceed 38°. “One of the objectives is to issue a document requesting that energy consumption be subsidized during the spring and summer months,” said the former governor of Misiones.
Through inquiries from this media, it was learned that to adjust the requirement, a project prepared by the Single Entity for the Control and Regulation of Public Services of Tucumán (ERSEPT)which is led by the radical José Ricardo Ascárate. Regarding the origin of the funds for the subsidy, it was explained that between 3 and 4.5% of what the organization collects per month is allocated to cover those in southern Argentina. Wholesale Electricity Market Administration Company SA (CAMMESA) and that to be applied in the 10 provinces of northern Argentina it would only have to be increased to 7%.
In recent days, the vice-governors, in agreement with the provincial leaders, also agreed to address the Nation’s delay in the implementation of public worksdespite the agreements that were signed before the approval of the Bases Law and the signing of the May Pactin Tucumán, on July 9. “Infrastructure works are a central and structural issue, for us it is a public good, the little we can do now is very basic, far from giving people complete happiness as we hope,” Passalacqua told the vice-governors he received in his office. The complaint is that the Government does not expedite the transfer of the agreed funds and that, in other cases, the recalculation of the costs of works that were left halfway and that are intended to be reactivated is carried out with excessive delay, said a legislator from Tucumán who participated in the meeting.
For this reason, Herrera Ahuad said: “We are not oblivious to the General Budget of the Nation, so we will work on a statement to support the completion of federal works in the Great North.” “Our concern is that work be done on a federal distribution of resources to complete many of those works that have not yet been done,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
