2023-09-04 02:22:56
Walter Cortesthe PUL candidate, won the elections for mayor of Bariloche of this Sunday. Thus, she surpassed the current governor of Río Negro, Arabela Carreras, who was seeking her political continuity in one of the most important cities in the province. We review the interview that Daniel Marzal, a journalist from the BLACK RIVER Journalbefore the elections, to delve into who the next president is and what he is proposing.
Next, the interview published two weeks ago in our medium:
Walter Cortés has been in charge of the Bariloche mercantile union for almost three decades and registers among his political background a passage through the provincial legislature, but this time he decided to go one step further and compete for the mayor’s office, convinced that many of the problems that people bring him every day “can only be solved from the municipality.”
Cortés said that if he takes office he will focus on the Infrastructure workspromised the purchase of machines, the opening of a quarry and a vast asphalt “strategic” planto reach the neighborhoods that today do not have it.
You also want to manage financing before the Nation for basic works electricity, gas and sewers. He said that one of the changes that everyone will notice will be the push for “night work”which in his opinion is the key to providing the works with the dynamism that they do not have today.
The union leader appears in the elections on September 3 with the list of the Union and Freedom Party and accompanies him as the first candidate for Councilor to Gerardo del Río, who has already held a seat since 2019 and would go for its second period.
Cortés said he has a “100-day plan” to address the most pressing problemsamong which he mentioned “the reorganization of traffic, take out the yellow sticks that Gennuso put” (the current mayor) and a comprehensive improvement of the streets, “which are made ball.” He also wants to create and equip “one hundred places”, because “there are none and the boys need it”.
In this first wave, he intends to generate “a sentry box plan” for urban transport, and the decentralization “seriously” of the municipal administration, with a hierarchy of the delegations, “so that people do not need to travel to the center and carry out all the procedures there”. Cortés said that if he is mayor will transfer his office to the premises of the former Dinarain the south of the city, where the Pampa de Huenuleo delegation works.
He pointed out that security is another concern and he wants to place more video cameras, “especially in the neighborhoods, because today they only put them in central areas.”
Cortés said that the urban changes he intends to develop them “with prior consultation with the neighbors”, which in his opinion do not exist today. And it is imagined that the activity on the ground, with works, signaling and other interventions, is carried out with a different methodology from the current one. “There will be a lot of work at night, as happens in other cities,” he said. In his opinion, it is the best way to move quickly and avoid major setbacks in transit.
Just as he aspires to develop many works, he also anticipated that it will be severe with those who vandalize. “Whoever breaks a sentry box or a camera, whoever scratches walls, we are going to denounce them in criminal justice, I am not going to compromise on that,” he warned.
In relation to the public transportationone of the services that attracts the most criticism, the PUL candidate said he wants to “think big, because everyone thinks small” and promised to apply a comprehensive reform, eliminate the current model of a single provider company and add another two or three with carriers locals to “compete with each other”.
He said that the service has to be “of quality and accessible to all” and that the improvement will start by first achieving “a reordering of traffic” to facilitate the operation and efficiency of the bus service.
Cortés is confident of winning the elections and said that he has good signs. “Many people are going to vote for us because they know me from the union, they see that I have attitude and character. And also because what I promise I do, ”he said.
As an argument in his favor, he mentioned the achievements of the mutual AMEC, which has an important recreational field in Ñirihuau, where it recently added a promoted covered swimming pool.
Walter Cortés: think Bariloche 50 years following
According to Cortés, Bariloche needs politicians not to focus only on the short term. “You have to think 50 years”, he sentenced. Along these lines, it promotes as its most ambitious project the installation of electric trams on rails to provide better urban transport options. He said that in principle he would establish a service between Llao Llao and the city center, with the possibility of later expanding other lines to Alto and the San Francisco neighborhood.
“They listen to me and say ‘Walter is crazy’, but we are going to do it, it is feasible,” he said. They might go with two, three wagons, or more, depending on what is needed according to the schedule. People have to go seated, not like animals”.
Cortés acknowledged his “Peronist roots” and said that “parties are important, but people vote for people.” He said that among his priorities will be “the promotion and training of local labor” and in terms of housing, it is proposed to develop 1,000 lots in the first year, to alleviate the demand that is currently unsatisfied. “You have to provide people with a lot to pay for, and then build their little house. We experienced it in the guild, ”he assured.
Said the municipality if necessary should buy or expropriate land to that end. He pointed out, for example, that there is a property for sale in Circunvalación that would be suitable, at around 2 million dollars. Cortés said that if the State needs to borrow to develop certain policies, that is a good reason.
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