Former Minister of Economy of Buenos Aires in the cabinet of Daniel Scioliwho arrived from the hand of Alexander Arlia, who was then leading the work and militancy group “Peronists without borders”. Current Secretary of Provinces of the Ministry of the Interior who leads the camporista Edward “Wado” of Peter. Always a fan of Boca. Silvina Batakis is the new Minister of Economy of the Nationwhere he will replace Martín Guzmán.
As Scioli’s minister, she had to fight and lose the battle so that Cristina Kirchner will enable more funds to the province. After her defeat in that arm wrestling match, she had to announce the splitting of bonuses through a decree, a measure that, according to her, left her “distressed”, and that triggered a strike of state and teachers. In 2012, the province faced 17 days of teachers’ strike. In 2013, it suffered 19 strikes. In 2014 it reached its peak, with 20 days of closed schools.
as an officer of Alberto Fernandez and De PedroBatakis led the battle so that the city of Buenos Aires does not recover in the Supreme Court the sharing funds that the Casa Rosada withdrew him in 2020, first with a decree from Alberto Fernández, then with a law from Congress. In “educational” sessions before journalists, Batakis passionately displayed not only the arguments to defend this withdrawal of funds, but also the technical data to go one step further: that the administration of Horacio Rodriguez Larreta it had taken excessive federal funds and, therefore, had a debt to face with the Nation.
The woman who then took the numbers to Scioli was not a politician, but a technical functionary who transpired the fierce internship between the former governor and the former president. Even so, within the tribes of sciolismo it was always identified in the plane closest to Kirchnerist thought. His incorporation into Pedro’s “Wado” troop, years later, would confirm that proximity.
Born in Tierra del Fuego, Batakis always preferred the low profile, except to profess his love for the blue and yellow jersey. “She is a fervent Boca fan. She goes to the court alone or with her son. Her husband doesn’t like soccer, but she goes crazy, ”said a fellow member of the Sciolist cabinet, who at the time described her as “nice, optimistic and fun”.
Graduated from the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the National University of La PlataBatakis graduated with a Masters in Provincial Public Finance and one in Environmental Economics from the University of York, England. She obtained various scholarships abroad. She trained in France, England and Chile. His reference in Economics was then Patricio Narodowski, a heterodox economist. She is presenting herself today as a doctoral student at Universidad Austral.
Batakis rose in the sciolista cabinet at the hands of former minister Arlía, who died in July 2016. When Arlía was head of Economy in Scioli’s cabinet, she was his chief adviser and undersecretary of Finance. And in 2011, when leaving the economic portfolio to go to Infrastructure, Arlía proposed her as her successor. Then, Batakis had the opportunity for which she had been preparing throughout her academic life: she accompanied Scioli between 2011 and 2015, when he faced the possibility of a greater challenge: if Scioli became president, she sounded like a candidate to occupy the Ministry of Economy to become his Minister of Economy. She achieved it six years later, with the motonaut as Minister of Production.
Report by Maria José Luzole