The Strategic Affairs and State Reform Unit will be headed by an official of your closest confidence. This province is among those with the most public employees per 1,000 inhabitants.
The governor of Catamarca, Raúl Jalil, launched a series of changes in his cabinet to start 2025, a year of clear electoral cut, and took the opportunity to give a new signal in a nod to the management of President Javier Milei, by announcing the creation of the Strategic Affairs and State Reform Unit. The mission of this new area, provincial version of the Ministry of Deregulation of the Nationheaded by the economist Federico Sturzeneggerwill be to “optimize government management through the analysis and processing of strategic data.”
The confirmation of the new dependency was carried out by the Catamarca Government House, from where it was specified that the organization “will depend directly on the Executive Branch.” In addition, “it will have the support of a Working Group that will be made up of representatives of each provincial ministry, who will participate ‘ad honorem’ and will be obliged to collaborate with information and assistance in the meetings called by the general director of the Unit.” That is to say, will enjoy “broad powers” to make the State more efficient and it is not ruled out that some measures involve the merger and disappearance of government areas, it was slipped.
In August 2024, the Catamarca government regulated a voluntary retirement system for workers in the provincial public administration, mirroring that promoted by the Nation, but it would not have achieved the objectives that Jalil set out for himself. According to official data, as of March 31, 2023, Catamarca had 36,093 public employees and in July 2024, this district was among the Argentine provinces with the most public workers per 1,000 inhabitants, with 108.
An official source consulted by Scopepointed out that since last November, at least, a team headed by Fernando Avilaformer Minister of Government, Justice and Human Rights, worked to shape this new management tool that will report directly to the provincial head. The unit will be chaired by Ávila himself, a man Jalil’s close confidant, who at the end of 2024 was replaced by Nicolás Rosales Matienzo. In that same act, Mara Muruawho served as Secretary of Justice of the Ministry of Government, took over as General Advisor to the Government.
Who is Fernando Ávila
Ávila, Jalil’s alter ego, was appointed General Government Advisor in 2021 and two years later he was appointed Minister of Government, Justice and Human Rights. A lawyer by profession, he graduated from the National University of Tucumán, is a specialist in Criminal Law from the National University of Rosario, has a master’s degree in Criminology from the National University of the Litoral and is a PhD candidate from the University of Toronto, in Canada. Before joining the world of politics, he was a trial lawyer in Catamarca and was an official in the Judicial Branch of Buenos Aires and was a member of human rights organizations.
On the occasion of the visit of President Javier Milei to Tucumán, last December, Jalil accompanied his Tucuman counterpart Osvaldo Jaldo, an opportunity in which he agreed to an interview with Ámbito. In that dialogue, the president stressed that the country is facing “a paradigm shift that must be respected because it was the decision of the majority of Argentine society.”
Source: Ambito
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