The mayor of the Buenos Aires municipality of 25 de Mayo Ramiro Eguenfrom the GEN party, made official in the last few hours its incorporation into La Libertad Avanza (LLA)thus becoming the first communal head of the president’s space Javier Milei in the province of Buenos Aires. It is expected that in the next few hours it will do the same Diego Valenzuelathe boss of Tres Febrero, until now belonging to the PRO, who will finalize his pass through a photo.
In statements to ScopeEgüen confirmed the information that had been released last night by Alejandro Speronithe legal undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy of the Nation and libertarian point guard in the Seventh electoral section. “I joined out of conviction. It’s not like they offered me anything in return. The give and take is overthere is a new paradigm in national politics, a new way of doing politics. There was a cultural change,” he explained.
The mayor said that he made the decision after talking with all the political spaces with which he reached the mayor’s office, such as Together for Change and independents. “I did a local tour and found no one to tell me this was not the way. Maybe this will help others behind us to follow and find the light at the end of the tunnel.”
In his first year in office, Egüen reduced the number of officials, did not renew employee contracts and achieved significant savings in public accounts. In that sense, the mayor specified that, at the local level, he decided to implement the same guidelines that Milei had set for the national administration. “In the municipality, We carried out the policies that were necessary to reach zero deficit, and we allocated that to investment and public works. We carried out financial stabilization and all that savings was returned to taxpayers in better services, in the largest repaving work in history and in the acquisition of road machinery,” he pointed out.
He maintained that “we not only adjusted, but we reorganized the administrative functioning of the municipality: we remove 300 gnocchi, we eliminate political positions and that savings went to an increase of 167% for those municipal employees who do work.
“We expanded the industrial sector. We joined the RIGI and we are waiting to demonstrate that 25 de Mayo is at the forefront. We need to create the conditions for the private sector to come to invest. At the same time, together with the Foreign Ministry we are establishing links to encourage investment external”, he graphed and added: The exit is with private investment, not through an elephant state“.
The community leader then stated that he prefers that they send less money to the district, “but that that money pays off, and not the work agreements that were signed with Kirchnerism in a public works fiction, where they then sent millions that were wallpaper and we couldn’t finish the work because there was hyperinflation.
Egüen confessed to having taken a year to meditate on the decision to make the leap to LLA. “Since my beginnings in politics, 16 years ago, I am at the antipodes of Kirchnerism. Today I think that my contribution has to be that a space like La Libertad Avanza, which managed to reach the presidency. If it goes well for the president, it goes well for Argentina and my neighbors,” he highlighted and completed: “We started with political talks, this possibility arose and we landed in the libertarian forces after meeting with Sebastián Pareja, president of the party in the province“.
The mayor highlighted that Milei “stabilized the macro,” adding that the communal leaders can “add from the territorial and local, tocarrying different perspectives so that this government is not only about economic stabilization, but also addresses other public policieswhich is what people ask for.”
During the interview, the mayor stated that “many community leaders are thinking” about following in his footsteps and said that “Others may have been waiting for someone to break the fence to get through” and closed: “If we serve that purpose, we are very happy to be able to show that in a municipality of 40 thousand inhabitants we did everything and, with the contribution of the national government, we are going to ensure governability.”
“There is no money, but we will have to be creative and get ahead. We will be a political bloc that will defeat Kirchnerism in the province and in the districts. We must fill the Legislature and Congress to make the reforms that are needed. “All of us as Buenos Aires residents must be able to work so that Axel Kicillof does not continue leading the destiny of the province,” he concluded.
Who is Ramiro Egüen, the mayor who joined La Libertad Avanza
Lawyer specialized in Tax Law, married and father of two children, Egüen is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of La Plata (UNLP). He reached the top leadership of the municipality in the central north of the province after winning the Together for Change internal elections and defeating Peronism by 57 votes.
The first libertarian mayor of Buenos Aires was born and lived on May 25, then he moved to the city of La Plata to study and began to venture into politics. He worked in the provincial Senate and in the State Prosecutor’s Office. In 2021 he became a councilor and, two years later, he was elected as communal chief.
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The welcome message
“We greet you with affection and solidarity, all the good people of the Seventh Section. You can count on our total and most selfless support,” Speroni said in a post on social networks. The national leader stated that Egüen “is the first libertarian mayor in history,” but said he had no doubts that “very soon,” dozens of communal chiefs “will also decide to integrate this wonderful political force called to re-dignify our country and our people.”
In that sense, libertarian shipowners told this medium that “He is the first of many who, throughout the country, will make the leap into our ranks in a short time”. The thing is that, as Ámbito has been reporting, LLA is working on a seduction operation of the Buenos Aires mayors of the PRO such as Guillermo Montenegro (General Pueyrredón), Santiago Passaglia (San Nicolás) and Ramón Lanús (San Isidro), who also gave inclined signals to an agreement.
Source: Ambito
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