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The Government welcomes the transfer of public works to the provinces.
In this new stage of management, the ruling party would be willing to transfer the execution of said works to provinces and municipalities.
Taking advantage of their new role as chief of ministers, the governors renewed before Guillermo Francos the demand for the paralysis of public works, a measure ordered by the government of Javier Milei that has a full impact on the local economy.
In this new stage of management, the ruling party would be willing to hand over the execution of said works to provinces and municipalities. This was made known by sources with an office at Balcarce 50 when asked by Ámbito, while stating that the new chief of staff "looks favorably" on the fact that, if the Nation is not going to deal with public construction, he will transfer the contracts.
A type of transfer is foreseen in the new version of the Base Law, which obtained an opinion this Thursday. In the text, it was stated in Title III, article 64 to 73, that the Executive Branch, after intervention by the Treasury Attorney General and the General Audit Office of the Nation, for emergency reasons, "may order the rerouting of works contracts and public services that are paralyzed, in order to enable the contribution of private financing. That is why several governors see an opportunity to, through their own funds or by making their local banks play, take a leap that will give them strong political returns.
In the last few hours, a new claim was raised to the former Minister of the Interior by the province of Buenos Aires, which joins the list of districts that demand the stoppage of works with a certain degree of execution, so that they themselves are the ones through provincial or private banks, take charge.
On Wednesday, Axel Kicillof himself toured two paralyzed works throughout the Nation. One of them is a Child Development Center, in General Lavalle; the second, a series of 30 homes in Tordillo that, despite being 70% complete, were stopped by the Government.
As Ámbito anticipated, the governors of Neuquén, Rolando Figueroa, and Río Negro, Alberto Weretilneck, will propose to the government of Javier Milei that the national routes be transferred to them in exchange for the collection of tolls due to the "state of abandonment." Something similar had been proposed by Ignacio Torres, from Chubut, who had already managed it with RN 3, and a few days ago he demanded the maintenance of RN 40. The list of complaints continues throughout the country.
At Casa Rosada they estimate that, "in the face of the next election year," more and more governors and mayors will request the transfer of public works. However, they have not yet given a concrete answer.
During the campaign and even after winning the elections, Milei repeated on several occasions that public works was a "job" and that the model to follow for infrastructure works was the Chilean one. «We are going to do it with the Chilean model. Look on the other side of the mountain range, it works great. "It is not suitable for the corrupt," she said in November last year. However, until now the president has not moved forward with a private financing model for public works. |
