The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillofreopened this Thursday the Summer Conferences 2025 with focus on the Atlantic Coast tourist season and the need to strengthen the opposition front.
At an event in Window Mountainconsidered that Javier Milei applies “an economic program that consists of taking measures that are well known in Argentina. It has to do with iron the dollar and lower salaries and pensions with the purpose of reducing inflationary dynamics“.
In that sense, he interpreted that “the victims of these plans are production and work“because “the production in Argentina and in the province of Buenos Aires particularly is experiencing tragic numbers. Mass consumption fell 18% and 19% in supermarkets“.
“Milei put meat consumption in Argentina at the lowest levels in the last 22 years. It put milk consumption at the lowest levels since 1980, and yerba mate consumption is the lowest in recent decades. This drop in consumption is a consequence of the drop in retirements, 30%, and the minimum living and mobile wage, down 28%. They are dramatic levels“he added.
At the end of the speech, Kicillof himself told the local media: “We seek the unity of Peronism. We want a political front of the entire popular field to stop Milei. We have to prevent the deliberative councils and the legislature from being invaded by those who think that the State does not have to exist. We call on the political leadership and all the punished sectors“: university, producers and workers.”
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The Buenos Aires Cabinet participated in a meeting in Guaminí.
Decline in tourism on the Atlantic Coast
Within the framework of the application of the economic program of national management, Axel Kicillof He acknowledged that “the situation is complicated, but to be expected for tourism. What is happening is not a surprise. The fall is strong and serious. “We are facing a difficult season.”.
During the ceremony, the Ministry of Production provincial notified a 9.2% drop in tourist flow and a 14% decrease in consumption on the Atlantic Coast during the first 15 days of January. For its part, in the first measurement of the year, Mar del Plata It attracted 521,659, 0.1% below the same period in 2024.
Likewise, according to information collected by different tourist entities in the spa city, Hotel and apartment occupancy ranged between 70% and 75%.
Buenos Aires Cabinet Meeting in Guaminí
Prior to the opening of the Summer Conferences 2025the governor participated in a management meeting with commercial and industrial actors in the town of Guamini. “We met with representatives of productive sectors of Guaminí and the region to analyze the development of the season and continue building a work plan together to face what is happening in the province,” he said. Axel Kicillof on their social networks.
“Faced with the complicated context to which we are subjected by a President who does not listen or invest, we are making a great effort to sustain tourism and accompany the industry and merchants because you don’t have to choose between State or private but rather articulate both parts,” said the president.
In this context, he highlighted that “an example of this coordination is the protection works in the spa of La Cochicó Tourist Village and the improvements to RP 85 that we announced today to boost the regional tourism development and provide better conditions for the transportation of the area’s production.”
Source: Ambito

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