Guido Carelli Lynch
05/31/2020 - 18:49
- Clarín.com
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The government is already working on measures for the post pandemic. President Alberto Fernández announced this on Monday. "We are thinking about the day after. It is a battery of 4 points on which we want to propose Argentina a new social contract to be a better country where equality is the rule and solidarity the mechanism, "said the head of state. The president stated that he postponed the communication so that nobody thought he wanted to put another axis when the immediate urgency is to contain the expansion of the coronavirus in the towns.
The Secretary for Strategic Affairs, Gustavo Beliz, is focused on the plan, according to the president, who - strictly speaking - reiterated several of the premises he raised in his speech of assumption before the Legislative Assembly. Also collaborating is the adviser Alejandro Grimson, who coordinated the publication of essays by intellectuals from different backgrounds with the suggestive title "The future after Covid-19".
“We assume with a very clear plan. We had to solve the debt problem first; the pandemic fell and the negotiation was prolonged. And obviously there will be a plan after this and it will be consistent with everything the President said, "they respond in the Casa Rosada.
In the course of the week, Fernández referred in almost all his speeches to the post-pandemic. "There will be a day after the pandemic and we will be on our feet," he said in Formosa. "It is a good opportunity after this pandemic passes to seriously rethink the country," he reiterated hours later in Misiones. In La Plata, alongside Axel Kicillof, he insisted on the need to "design an egalitarian country , with criteria of equality" . "That is the real challenge that the pandemic leaves behind," he said.
No one in the government wants to anticipate the presidential communication. Alberto F. gave some concrete clues about his program in each of his interventions this week. First, he referred to the need for a tax reform . He mentioned the injustice of VAT, which must be paid indiscriminately rich and poor and of Profits. "It is clearly wrong and must be corrected," he said.
Developing federalism is another axis in which Fernández works. In Misiones, the president also recognized the need to rediscuss a new partnership scheme. The President was preparing to take away the extra point that the City received during the previous administration when the coronavirus landed in Argentina.
He referred again to the development of regional economies and the disproportionate demographic growth of Buenos Aires, which added 16 million inhabitants in recent decades. A meter away, Eduardo “Wado” De Pedro was listening to him. Before the pandemic began, he relaunched the national population administration.
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Watch the specialThe interior minister wants to strengthen this area to start thinking about decentralization and more vigorous federalism . For this reason, it intends for the country to join the Federation Forum - a sort of OECD of federalism - with which 10 of the planet's federal states are associated; all with very different realities among them such as Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, Ethiopia, Brazil, India, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan.
At the institutional level, meanwhile, the Executive is moving forward with judicial reform. On the other hand, the Economic and Social Council, whose creation is still long in Congress, will serve only to discuss some of the axes; the social ones in particular. "For the rest there is a majority in Congress," reason some officials who deal regularly with the President.
