The governor of Chubut, Ignacio “Nacho” Torresand its counterpart from the province of Santa Fe, Maximilian Pullarosigned a series on Thursdayie cooperation agreements for the development of specific policies for industrial strengthening and tourism promotion between both jurisdictions.
The agreements were signed at a ceremony held in the White Room of the Government House in the capital of Santa Fe. Also attending were the governor of Entre Ríos, Rogelio Frigerio; the vice-governor of the host province, Gisela Scaglia; national and provincial legislators, mayors, councilors and executive officials from each of the participating provinces.
“Today we signed agreements that encompass this vision that we have in the provinces of moving towards an Argentina where the private sector can compete legitimately, where we can lower logistics costs and where we can have integrated tourist corridors,” said the Chubut president during his speech.
Fiscal federalism
After the corresponding signatures, Torres gave a press conference in which he urged to build a “common agenda” with the rest of the provinces and the National Government to “define what model of country we want.” Along these lines, the president considered that “the only way to move forward is with the help of the productive interior of Argentina.”
“It is these same provinces that finance many things that sometimes do not return in the same proportion,” The governor said that debating a new model of fiscal federalism “is nothing more than discussing obligations and rights.”
In this regard, he said that “these discussions, which take place objectively and with criteria, are the ones that we should raise throughout the country,” such as those promoted by the front of Patagonian leaders. “where we created a scheme for regionalizing public policies with governors from different parties.”
“This is something innovative that we must replicate throughout Argentina,” said Torres, who called for “creating a common agenda that collaborates with those goals that the National Government wants to get out of this pendulum-like Argentina that we have to be re-founding every four years and systematically discussing exactly the same thing.”
Discussion at Congress
In this way, the head of the Chubut Executive assured that “productive Argentina wants to contribute more to the Nation,” and explained: “The governors have the great challenge and obligation to defend the interests of our provinces, but we also defend the interests of the Nation.”
“We take care of health, education, justice, security and, however, every time there is an economic crisis, we do the same thing, we create a new tax that is supposedly temporary but then remains forever, that should be shared and ends up creating a specific allocation reducing the federal shared mass,” he said.
Closing his message, the governor considered that “it is a central discussion that we have to have as a country and from the very trenches of each one of the provinces of Argentina, and we are going to take it to the area where it has to be discussed, which is the National Congress.”
Industrial Development and Tourism Promotion
One of the cooperation agreements signed on Thursday afternoon is linked to the implementation of industrial development policies in both jurisdictions, in conjunction with the chambers and federations of the private sector.
The purpose of the agreement is to contribute to the promotion of the industry as an economic activity of interest, encouraging the development of suppliers, mutual training and the exchange of technologies of companies that operate, particularly, in the oil and gas sector, “considering the vocation of these provinces to have direct air connectivity that can strategically link them.”
On the other hand, an agreement was also signed Promotion and Diffusion Tourism with the aim of consolidating the activity, as well as its promotion and sustained and sustainable development, by improving the quality of services and creating competitive destinations.
In this context, the agreement aims to “contribute to the effective implementation of the plans of both provinces, facilitating collaboration in the development of tourism infrastructure, the training of service providers, and the formulation of policies that ensure a competitive offer at national and international level.”
Source: Ambito
