The governor of Jujuy and president of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), Gerardo MoralesHe stated this Saturday that “It is very unfair” that the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) “receives subsidies that are not received in the interior”called to rethink “the federal issue” in the country and admitted that there are “differences” on the subject within Together for Change.
In this way, Morales He once more distanced himself from his partner within the opposition coalition, the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larretawithin the framework of the discussion between the Buenos Aires and national governments regarding the level of subsidies received by the City for public transport.
“We are part of the Norte Grande. In the AMBA they receive the subsidies that we do not receive in the interior. The AMBA pays the ticket 18 pesos and we pay 50, in the transport. In energy, the AMBA pays five times less for electricity than what we pay in the interior of the country. The same with water,” Morales said.
In this framework, the governor added: “This country is very unfair. Between Escobar and La Plata, in that belt, which is the entire metropolitan area, is 56 percent of the formal work of the entire Argentine Republic, 80 percent of Mercado Libre’s sales take place in the metropolitan area. It’s very unfair, we have to discuss the federal issue.”
“They wanted to raise it at the Together for Change table. I asked them not to bring up that topic because we have differences. I come from the deep interior of the country where we have to pay 11 dollars a million BTU for the gas that we import to Bolivia, while the center and south of the country pay 3.5 dollars, “he added in dialogue with Radio Mitre.
In the meeting that took place on Thursday in Olivos between the presidents of the parties that make up the opposition coalition, the issue of transportation subsidies was part of the debate, but Rodríguez Larreta did not get the support he wanted from his partners in the coalition. To the series of criticisms that rained down on the head of the Buenos Aires government from the ruling party, was added the non-support of his own political space. The conclusion was that neither the party nor the alliance will support the position of the head of government, who spoke of “a new attack once morest the City” and recalled the debate over co-participation.
This morning, Morales publicly acknowledged what was discussed behind closed doors at the opposition summit. For the governor, “in addition to macroeconomics, we must look at the real country and we must have a government plan that is federal, productive, developmental, that looks at SMEs, producers, small businesses, the countryside, small industry”.
“We have nothing to do with the thought of Alberto Fernández, less with La Cámpora and less with Kirchnerism, but there is a point where there has to be an investment plan that has to last 20 years and that all governments continue it, because I am convinced that the structural problems of the economy are going to be solved from the periphery to the center”, concluded the president of Jujuy.
This saturday President Alberto Fernández also made statements on this subject. “Being autonomous requires self-financing, but it is very difficult for the city to understand this” of Buenos Aires, he applied, among other things.
