A state “expensive, big and inefficient”, as Alberto Weretilneck proposed. A state that must cease to be the first job choice for young people from Río Negro, as Ariel Rivero emphasized. A state threatened by “four small towns that want to privatize health, education and security”, as Gustavo Casas maintained. or a state to concentrate more responsibilities, to guarantee equal access to services or housing, as marked by the candidates of the left? That disparity of looks allowed us to know the debate on Thursday night, in the run-up to the provincial elections this Sunday in Río Negro.
Eight of the nine candidates for Governor they converged in Barilocheto present for just over two hours their points of view on the past, present and future of the territory that they intend to lead from next December 10.
The call was made by Channel 6, achieving the assistance of weretilneck (Together We Are Río Negro / Río Negro Unites Us / UCR), Rivero (First Black River), Casas (Unity for Victory), Silvia Horne (Let’s go with everyone), aurelio vazquez (BUT), rafael zamaro (Front We Are Popular and Social Unity), Gabriel Moses (Left Front and Workers Unity) and Gabriel DiTullio (PPR).
The only absentee was Hannibal Tortoriellofrom Cambia Río Negro, who explained yesterday why he did not participate, in an interview with BLACK RIVER in which he also exposed his perspective on the challenges and projects for the administration of the provincial State.
Within this analysis, during the debate it was also central the link with Health, Education and Security workers, sectors that reached the campaign stage in conflict with the government.
The relationship with the private sector was another important aspect of the presentations, with a wide range of opinions on tax policies, the generation of conditions to increase the labor demand and the relationship of the State with the operators of the hydrocarbon sector.
The debate had its most tense moments when the candidates made direct references to another competitor, being Weretilneck who took the most criticism. Horne accused him of setting up the “press operation” in which it was reported that organizations close to the Evita Movement and his family received almost 100 million pesos from the national State since 2021; Vázquez said that he “is directly responsible for what thousands of workers are suffering in the province” and Musa spoke of the “bad business” he did with the Castello Plan.
The senator took these expressions calmly, smiled several times when he was mentioned and thus the event ended in order, with respectful greetings among all following going off the air.
The proposals of the candidates for governor
Aurelio Vázquez – Movement to Socialism
The former head of Unter said that his first law to promote will be for the payment of the 40% zone for all workers in the province. And the second measure will be “a deep plan for housing and public services, which has not been carried out since 1996.”
He described the call to vote eight months before the transfer of command as a “political circus”. “This has nothing to do with the needs of the people,” he assured.
He questioned most of his rivals, because “they are the ones who have lived off the State’s breast” for years and “they are responsible for the serious economic and social crisis that thousands of Río Negros are experiencing.”
In addition to affirming that Weretilneck “is responsible for what thousands of workers are suffering,” he stated that “it would be good for the former governor to agree with the governor on the Castello Plan,” since she says that it cannot be paid and the senator said otherwise.
Ariel Rivero – First Black River
“The State must be depopulated, but not by throwing people out, but whoever is looking for work finds it in the private sector,” said the community chief of Campo Grande and Javier Milei’s representative in the province.
He assured that “we have lost the battle of Vaca Muerta with Neuquén”, but he took on the challenge of promoting the development of the province from the energy resources that Río Negro has.
He was more critical of the management of Arabela Carreras than of Weretilneck. “We need strong ministers”, he maintained before promising that “in my government, they are not going to block a route, because I am going to go to dialogue, to agree”.
“We have to recover our identity and that is done by working every day. The path of order and progress. Making our children better than us,” she harangued. For the public sector, he promised to “match state salaries with the provinces that have 35% more.”
Rafael Zamaro – We are Popular and Social Unity Front
The former priest affirmed that the Popular Unity “proposes to accompany the people”, because “on April 17 we return to school, to the hospital.”
“We have not been living on politics, holding various positions for years,” he emphasized.
He showed himself as a representative “of ordinary people” and said that “our proposals go towards them.” In this sense, he was ironic when highlighting that “in Río Negro it is easier to win the game of eight steps than to get an appointment at a hospital.”
He was emphatic in defending natural resources. “Isn’t it time to ask yourself who has the land in Río Negro and how did he get it?” he asked. Then he advanced and said that “the nerve of the tooth is the distribution of wealth” and “if we let the wealth continue to be taken by four living people, it will be very difficult to keep working, to study.”
“We must take strong stands, kick Lewis off our land,” he concluded.
Gabriel Musa – Left Front and Workers Unity
At 39 years old, the former Godoy councilor is one of the youngest candidates. In the debate he said that “economy, work and environment” are central to the FIT proposal.
He spoke of the need to end the “speculative economy” and on this ground, he considered that the provincial debt “is looting.”
Given this, he proposed the creation of a provincial bank “to stop the bleeding.”
He also promised a 40% unfavorable zone “for all workers.”
“No to the delivery of the San Matías Gulf. We cannot allow them to take oil, gas,
Extractivism is not working”, he affirmed when he addressed the environmental matter.
It also encouraged the centralization of the health and education systems. “Everything under the orbit of the State,” she anticipated. He spoke of an agreement in Health for six hours, “to stop double and triple shifts” and on transportation he promised to “end the monopoly.”
Gabriel DiTullio – PPR
“You have to get these people who want to perpetuate themselves in power out of their comfort zone,” said the businessman from Bariloche.
In the debate he said that “we have a devastated province” and marked the contradiction of those who spoke of irrigating the Valley “when half of the farms are abandoned.”
“It looks like it’s all one big party. A party of a great alliance that is going to take us to more than what we are experiencing.
If we don’t make a great agreement, but a productive one, we don’t have a future,” he said.
With the idea of promoting employment generation from the private sector, he described that today “people are captives of the State” and that “regional economies cannot grow if there are no large investments in infrastructure.”
After Weretilneck spoke of the strong bond built with Bariloche, he said he did not remember the provincial help in the ash crisis.
Gustavo Casas – Unity for Victory
The National Highway delegate in the province insisted on his idea of promoting a “revolution” in Río Negro, with a central axis: “Work, work and work”.
“It is immoral not to take advantage of the resources we have”, anticipating that it will value the land for food production.
That idea was connected with the plan for a new tax scheme, because “we cannot harass the workers, the producers.”
“We want 5,000 new SMEs. How are we going to do it? Reading the landscape, because today we take advantage of 15% of the land, ”she maintained.
He also promised policies aimed at attracting private investment. “We are going to bring the economic resource so that it can be filed,” he said.
In any case, he warned that there is a hollowing out of health, education and security, driven by the “vivillos” who seek the privatization of these systems.
Silvia Horne – Let’s go with everyone
The former deputy – the only woman who disputes the Governor’s office – appeared in the debate as “a worker”, a militant of Peronism, who “defends the national government in credit and debit”. “I take care of inflation that we can’t control,” she said.
He was among those who criticized Weretilneck the most, marking a contradiction in his speech of “dialogue and consensus.”
“He never tried a way of dialogue. Policies that are not built participatory cannot be imposed. There is an accumulation of errors that has resulted in this salary situation for all state companies, ”she remarked.
“We are facing the possibility of change. Weretilneck says that it changes but has all the ministers of the current government as candidates ”, was another example he gave.
He said that his first health policy “will be to have water in all houses.”
Alberto Weretilneck – JSRN-UCR-Nos Une RN
The senator did not mention the governor, Arabela Carreras, at any time during the debate, but he ratified his critical view of the present in Río Negro. “We are in a moment of breakdown of our province,” he said.
He insisted that “change must be dialogue” and within these transformations, he opined that “we must modify our educational system, to guarantee thousands of young people to have a future”, “we must discuss a new health system” and ” we have to discuss a policy of access to land and housing.
“The province generates its employment, its wealth, its work from the entrepreneurship of the private sector,” he said before stating that “we have a large, expensive and inefficient State” and that “is the great debate that is coming.”
“It cannot be done by just one governor. It is a definition among all of the Río Negro of the future ”, she pointed out.
Tortoriello: why he didn’t go and his “coincidence” with Weretilneck
Aníbal Tortoriello did not attend the debate in Bariloche “because we had a limited campaign program, with commitments already made in Cipolletti”, but also because “I have nothing to discuss with Weretilneck.”
“Weretilnek has been with his party in government for almost 12 years and has demonstrated its total failure, with the Province bankrupt, without works, with shortages of water, sewers and gas, without a budget for health, education and security. So What do I have to discuss with that man? The candidate of Cambia Río Negro told this newspaper yesterday.
Regarding his proposals, he said that he agreed 100% with what was raised by Weretilneck regarding the “expensive, large and inefficient” State, but he warned that the big difference is that these characteristics were deepened by JSRN.
“It is good that he describes his State, what he is the author of. Tells the truth. He has shown that he not only failed to make it efficient, but he made things worse. That is why we are going to restructure the public debt and lower public spending, eliminating the superfluous that politics generates ”, he concluded.
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