This Friday, the Government appointed an official to collect the salary for two months
in which he worked without an official designation.
And also, in the same decree, he fired him
and appointed his replacement, who had been working in his position for almost a month.
The protagonists of the story are
Héctor Sergio Falzone
,
former Undersecretary of Electrical Energy
between January 8 and March 20, and his successor,
Damián Eduardo Sanfilippo
, as of March 21.
Through Decree 332/2024, published this Friday, April 19 in the Official Gazette, this situation materialized. The rule is signed by President Javier Milei and the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, in the absence of the Minister of Economy,
Luis Caputo
- traveling in the United States. And it whitewashes what was happening in the second line of the Ministry of Energy, which is headed by
Eduardo Rodríguez Chirillo
.
In March, the La Política Online
portal
attributed this castling to an
internal dispute
between Rodríguez Chirillo, on the one hand, and Caputo and the Chief of Staff,
Nicolás Posse
, which would have been settled in favor of the latter.
Falzone was an executive at
Central Puerto
and the Sociedad Argentina de Energía (
SADESA
) group, where
Nicolás Caputo
had shares - which he later sold - along with other partners. At the beginning of the Milei government, Falzone was in charge of the design and implementation of the incipient reform of the electricity sector proposed by the Secretary of Energy, inspired by the experiences of Argentina in the 90s and his passages through Spain and Mexico.
During the first quarter,
the national State accumulated a debt with electricity generators for more than 900 million dollars by not paying subsidies to have a fiscal surplus
.
For his part, Sanfilippo, who had been serving as the acting undersecretary even without an official designation, is a former executive of the electrical distributor of the province of Buenos Aires Eden, belonging to the
group Desarrollo Energética (DESA), of businessman Rogelio Pagano
.
Among its main tasks is to complete the
liberalization of the electricity market
, which must remove the Wholesale Electricity Market Administration Company (Cammesa) from its role as financial and administrative intermediary of the system so that
the generators can sell energy directly to the distributors
, in a scheme in which prices and rates would be "normalized", with little impact on subsidies.
More urgently, Sanfilippo must approve or review the
seasonal energy prices
that the Government calculated for the May-October semester and which
could lead to another sharp increase
in rates in the next 15 days.
NE