Given the proposal from the Buenos Aires native – who called “the workers and governors of other provinces” to start the dialogue to “take all the institutional steps that are necessary to sustain it” – Quintela considered the announcement an “example” and stated: “Aerolíneas is not just an airline; It is connectivity, development and integration for millions of Argentines, regardless of where they are.
Ricardo Quintela endorsed Axel Kicillof for Aerolíneas Argentinas
The future of the national airline is, since the beginning of Javier Milei’s government, one of the most tense debates in Argentina. During the last year, the Government maintained numerous conflicts with the aeronautical unions and made clear more than once his intention to move forward with the privatization of the airline company.
Given the Government’s decision, Kicillof proposed in the last hours that the province of Buenos Aires take charge of the administration of Aerolíneas Argentinas. “The national government says that no one wants Aerolíneas Argentinas: it is a lie, the province of Buenos Aires does,” he stated during a press conference at the Government House in La Plata.
Quintela was then the first governor to support the Buenos Aires initiative. “We celebrate the proposal of our colleague @Kicillofok to transfer the responsibility of our flag airline to guarantee that it continues to be a strategic tool at the service of all Argentines,” he wrote in a post on his official X account.
“Their commitment to take over the company in the province of Buenos Aires to avoid its sale and delivery to low-cost companies that do not guarantee stability or quality, is an example of how the public is defended with determination and responsibility“added Quintela.
Finally, the governor of La Rioja stated that “Aerolíneas is not just an airline; it is connectivity, development and integration for millions of Argentines, regardless of where they are” and then concluded: “We support this decision because we understand that the Federalism is also done by defending that which provides service to all Argentines.“.
Axel Kicillof’s proposal for Aerolíneas Argentinas
Given the constant push and pull of the national government with Aerolíneas Argentinas, the Buenos Aires governor announced last Monday that the province intends to absorb the shares of the airline in the event that the national administration wishes “transfer it, sell it, liquidate it or close it” with the objective of “avoiding its dispossession“.
“The national government says that nobody wants Aerolíneas Argentinas: It’s a lie, the province of Buenos Aires does want it and, in the event that they finally decide to transfer it, it expresses its vocation to begin the path of dialogue with the workers and governors of other provinces and to take all the institutional steps that are necessary to sustain it,” said the Peronist president in a press conference. which he led at the Government House, in La Plata, accompanied by the vice governor Veronica Magarioand the Government Ministers, Carlos Bianco, and DevelopmentAndrés Larroque.
They also participated Pablo Ceriani (former head of Aerolíneas Argentinas) and the general secretaries of the aeronautical unions Edgardo Llanos (APA), Juan Pablo Brey (AAA), Rubén Fernández (UPSA) and Mateo Ferreria (APLA), union figures who had numerous conflicts with the libertarian administration during the last year.
In his message, the president remarked that “Javier Milei’s government insists on the privatization of Aerolíneas Argentinas. We find it deplorable and tragic that it is moving towards privatization. It’s not new: It has already been privatized and led to scrapping and liquidationin loss of routes and closure of destinations. “It was a disaster.”
“Last year, Aerolíneas Argentinas did not receive assistance from the national government. There is no deficit or it is minor. This is an attempt to loot Aerolíneas Argentinas. When it was privatized, it stopped flying to unprofitable destinations and left half of Argentina without connection. That’s the idea, they want to sell it to make a deal and a scam,” he explained.
The path for your transfer
From the Executive Branch they stated that the DNU 70 of President Javier Milei and the Article 4 of the Law Bases They enabled the possibility of transferring one hundred percent of the share capital of Aerolíneas Argentinas – which is a public limited company – to the workers, through a shared ownership programas well as the provinces and the City of Buenos Aires, through an agreement.
In this way, in the event that the national Executive Branch wishes to get rid of the shares, they could be transferred to the workers, to the provinces or to both. “This should occur with authorization from the Legislature,” they detailed.
Regarding the procedure to follow, Ceriani explained that there are “different possible paths” to absorb the Aerolíneas share package but clarified that everything will depend on the “path that the national government wants to choose.” On the other hand, the former head of Aerolíneas Argentinas He acknowledged that there are conversations “both between the northern governors and the Patagonian governors.”
“It will be a matter of sitting down to raise the issue and see together with the governors the different possible solutions and alternative ways to be able to continue providing the public service,” the official concluded and emphasized that the Law Bases ““provides for mechanisms to transfer shares from public companies to the provinces.”
Source: Ambito
