10/23/2020 6:37 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 10/23/2020 6:47 PM
A deputy from Buenos Aires of Kirchnerism was at the center of a controversy by promoting that the
district hospital that he governed for 20 years bears his name
.
Not a minor detail: during his last period as local boss he repealed the rule that prohibited it.
He is
Alberto Conochiari
, provincial legislator of the Frente de Todos, who was mayor of the Buenos Aires party of
Leandro N. Alem.
The official councilors, who respond to him despite the fact that the current mayor is Carlos Ferraris, from the same space, approved the ordinance that names the district hospital after him.
The text prepared by the official councilors highlights that Conochiari was the one who achieved "
the definitive opening
" of the hospital, and lists the actions that, according to them, he led Sabechiari to improve the care and possibilities of the hospital.
Conochiari together with the current mayor of Leandro N, Alem, Carlos Ferraris.
The decision generated controversy in that locality and aroused the repudiation of some Conochiari's colleagues in the Buenos Aires Chamber of Deputies.
The debate over the names of politicians in public buildings was at the center of the debate when, after the death of Néstor Kirchner, which marks 10 years, there was a kind of
clamor from Kirchner leaders
to rename emblematic spaces with the name of the deceased former president.
The Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK) was the paradigmatic case of that situation, but public works paying homage to the people of Santa Cruz multiplied throughout the country.
There were so many that they even gave rise to an online catalog, created by the journalist Leonardo Mindez, in which he listed each one.
The name of the site - whose last update dates back to 4 years - speaks for itself:
"Put Nestor on everything
.
"
Now, in his small payment, Conochiari and his councilors star in the local version, with him as the protagonist.
And the noise reached the Buenos Aires congress, where the legislator of Together for Change,
Alex Campbell
, questioned the initiative.
The PRO leader warned that it was KNOWLEDGE himself who paved the way for them to put his name to the hospital by repealing in 2018 the ordinance that established that 10 years must elapse after the death of a person so that he can take his name to a space or public building.
The draft declaration that bears Campbell's signature indicates
the "deepest repudiation
of the decision to designate the Municipal Hospital of the Leandro N. Alem District with the name of Alberto Rubén Conocchiari, current Provincial Deputy for the 4th Electoral Section."
The text insists that naming the hospital "is possible thanks to the repeal of an ordinance in 2018 (Ordinance 1237/08 and its amendment with Ordinance 1571/08) -during his tenure as Mayor of the District-, which established that at least a period of 10 years must elapse after the death of a person for a public space to be designated with his name. "
And he adds: "This measure
goes against the republican spirit of our system of government
, confusing the government of the day with the State. Canceling a criterion that determined a temporary distance to name public spaces with someone's name, to later name a Hospital with the name of an Intendant who left office less than 1 year ago is an offense to the republic. "
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