05/13/2021 10:45 PM
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 05/13/2021 11:01 PM
In the midst of the internships in the national government around Martín Guzmán and the question of rates, Máximo Kirchner presented this Thursday the bill that
reduces 30% and 50% on the
corresponding
gas bills
for residential users, "depending on their situation of greater or lesser vulnerability ".
The measure is aimed at the
"cold areas" of the country
, specifically at users in Mendoza, San Juan, San Luis, Salta and more than fifty municipalities in the province of Buenos Aires "which add to the benefit that the Patagonian region already has" .
It is an initiative jointly presented by legislators from the Frente de Todos, Federal Consensus, and Federal Unity and Equity blocs.
As officially reported,
"it benefits more than 3 million Argentine men and women."
The presentation was led by Sergio Massa along with Máximo Kirchner, head of the Kirchnerist bloc, who said: "This is a
paradigm shift
in relation to what was done in four years of the government of Together for Change with rates."
The son of Nestor and Cristina Kirchner added: "Those who are unaware of the reality of Argentina and
spoke of heated sidewalks
or that Argentines wasting gas did great harm to the purchasing power of our people."
Strictly speaking, this project had been designed by Kirchner since December 2020 -when the rates were still frozen- focused on those areas where, for example, “
there are many more cold days
than is usually the case in the metropolitan region of Buenos Aires”.
A new chapter in the internship
The truth is that this project adds a new chapter in internal politics within the Casa Rosada around the figures of
Federico Basualdo
, undersecretary of Electric Power, and Martín Guzmán, Minister of Economy of the Nation.
Martín Guzmán, on tour, with Julie Kozack, Deputy Director of the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Photo Economy
The attempt by Ala Guzmán - prone to raise electricity rates in the middle of his negotiation with the IMF - to remove Basualdo from his post
exposed the differences
in approach in La Rosada regarding the increases in services in the framework of the pandemic and how act before the International Monetary Fund in the election year.
In fact, this very Thursday the ruling Senate bloc approved Oscar Parrilli's draft declaration that urges the Executive that the IMF disbursement for special drawing rights - estimated at $ 4.35 billion - be used to "alleviate the pandemic. "and
not to pay" debt or interest
.
"
This approval occurs the day before President Alberto Fernández and Martín Guzmán meet the head of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, in Rome.
"The recipient of this project is the International Monetary Fund, to which we humbly say that it has to change the requirements for debtor countries," said Parrilli.
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