Martin Bidegaray
09/16/2021 9:45 AM
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 09/16/2021 9:51 AM
The electricity and gas rates.
The prices of mass consumer products in supermarkets.
The future of the Hidrovía.
There are just three of the issues on the economic agenda that are contingent on the
continuity of certain officials in the midst of the political crisis.
The presentation of the resignation by the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” De Pedro, triggered the resignations of other officials.
Paula Español
, Secretary of Internal Trade, is another of those who made her resignation available.
The official is in charge of the
dialogue with mass consumer companies
.
It agreed to the abolition of the "Maximum Prices" program in exchange for a basket of popular products with prices stamped on their containers.
Spanish seemed to distance himself from Matías Kulfas, Minister of Productive Development, on whom he depends.
Clarín
consulted her and received no response.
The electricity and gas rates depend on the Ministry of Energy. Its owner, Darío Martínez, is under the orbit of the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán. However, Guzmán's plans for public services are often thwarted. The economist was looking for tariff increases around inflation (in the double digits). On the other hand, the increases were 6% (gas throughout the country) and 9% (electricity in Buenos Aires).
That was because the
tug of war
rates was won by
Federico Basualdo
, undersecretary of Electric Power, and
Federico Bernal
, controller of Enargas.
Guzmán asked for the resignation of Basualdo, and did not get it.
Martinez said Wednesday that "rates cannot be frozen forever."
The 2022 budget is likely to reflect that, with
some spike in ballots
.
Basualdo and Bernal opposed in 2021.
Will both remain in their posts?
According to official sources who know the energy cloth, the two will do what La Cámpora and Vice President Cristina Kirchner indicate.
On Wednesday they were considered among the group of those who made their resignation available to him.
This newspaper consulted them, but received no response.
The future of the Hidrovía depends on the Ministry of Transportation, headed by Alexis Guerrera.
That portfolio is under the political control of Sergio Massa.
The president of the Lower House assesses the continuity of his officials in the Government.
Among the businessmen it is said that Massa and Máximo Kirchner (head of the Frente de Todos bench) have a kind of “tactical agreement”.
If the campers leave, they estimate that
Massa and his family could go the same way.
Rates, prices and the Hidrovía are also dealt with by ministries where there are internal dissent.
The businessmen rescue Kulfas, while they question Español, which they consider more controversial.
“Paula Español, is a person who has a complex and difficult responsibility, which is precisely to generate baskets of protected consumption. An
exaggerated responsibility is placed on her
. Inflation is multi-causal, it is not resolved in the Ministry of Internal Trade. I believe that this Secretariat has the function and I believe that it has fulfilled it more than, of generating programs that stimulate consumption, that take care of protected baskets, and stimulate consumption (Now 12). There are no differences of views in the conceptual, ”Kulfas explained to
Clarín
in an interview.
The "Super Cerca" program, powered by Spanish, so that there are affordable consumption baskets
, would not have reached the capillarity sought by the Government,
according to consumer analysts.
The sectors with lower purchasing power do not usually mention it in opinion polls.
Minister Guzmán wanted energy subsidies in 2021 to have the same weight on GDP as in 2020.
Instead, they would reach more than $ 900,000 million.
"The budget is based on assumptions, it is always being modified through reassignment of items," Bernal explained to this newspaper in March.
The future of rates in 2022 will depend on whether the criteria of Guzmán or that of Basualdo and Bernal are imposed
, who usually have a different perspective.
In the Hidrovía, the management of the General Ports Administration (AGP) is starting.
This unit will be in charge, at least, for one year.
The transport ministry
must carry out a long-term tender
.
Minister Alexis Guerrera responds to Sergio Massa.
If the head of the Renewal Front decides to withdraw the officials under his wing, another area could be left vacant and, with that, the fate of the Hidrovía.
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