Guido Carelli Lynch
11/12/2020 18:37
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 11/12/2020 7:12 PM
In fact,
Jorge Ferraresi's
administration began
at the head of the
Ministry of Territorial Development and Habitat
.
The replacement of the resigning María Eugenia Bielsa went through a desolate Casa Rosada - due to the isolation of the President - to meet alone with Chief of Staff Santiago Cafiero.
The meeting - anticipated by
Clarín
- was just
a formality
.
The vice president of the
Instituto Patria
will meet this Friday with his predecessor in office, who would present his formal resignation from the ministry during the afternoon.
"We were talking and exchanging (ideas) by phone and
tomorrow we are going to get together
so that she can transfer me the experience she has, the commitments and tomorrow it will be my responsibility," said Ferraresi after her meeting with the coordinating minister.
To formally assume and be able to sign files, the minister must wait for the President to finish the preventive isolation after
Gustavo Beliz's
positive swab for coronavirus
.
Ferraresi suggested it could be next week.
"(We think it will be) next week, but tomorrow we are going to take office," he insisted in a dialogue with journalists accredited at Casa Rosada.
“Starting tomorrow,
Jorge Ferraresi
will be in charge of the Habitat ministry.
We trust Jorge's experience and his ability to handle this enormous challenge.
We thank
María Eugenia Bielsa
for her commitment to creating and starting up the organization ”, Cafiero confirmed via Twitter.
The chief of staff had met before with Bielsa, after the government's offer to occupy the Argentine Embassy to UNESCO, which was left vacant after the death of
Fernando "Pino" Solanas, was revealed
.
The former lieutenant governor of Santa Fe has not yet responded.
Ferraresi has a direct line with Vice President
Cristina Kirchner
, who greeted him for the appointment.
“We speak as we almost always speak with different leaders.
We were chatting, exchanging ideas and fundamentally it gave me the support and the commitment to continue working on the same scheme ”, he said.
The outgoing mayor of Avellaneda - who will be replaced by the first councilor
Alejo Chornobroff
- clarified to this newspaper that he asked the former president to speed up the
approval
of the
bill for neighborhood clubs
, which has already been approved by Deputies and is an initiative of the brand new minister.
Ferraresi arrived accompanied by former Racing soccer player
Hugo Lamadrid
, who will become the ministry's press director, a task similar to the one he was carrying out in Avellaneda.
The new cabinet member recounted his conversation with the President.
"He asked me to build a lot of houses," he said.
The minister referred to the mark that he will seek to give to his administration and referred to the problem
of land seizures
, which have multiplied in recent months.
“It is not desired by those who take the land or by anyone.
There began to be a resolution of the Guernica problem that has placed it on the political agenda.
It is important that with Social Development we are going to work jointly with what was Habitat that was in the Ministry, the issue of land with service and regularizations, "he said.
He was referring to the Secretariat for Socio-Urban Integration that Fernández took from Bielsa to
transfer it to Daniel Arroyo's Portfolio
and directed by
Fernanda Miño
, a leader who responds to
Juan Grabois
.
That secretariat, which has a budget of
$ 8,800 million,
will not return to the Housing orbit.
"We are going to work together," Ferraresi insisted.
The new official confirmed that they will seek to use public lands for that purpose.
Ferraresi had participated in the meeting by zoom of the PJ in which the President indicated that he will exploit part of the land that is idle.
The new minister reported that he met with Buenos Aires Governor
Axel Kicillof
on Wednesday -
resisted by several mayors of the PJ - and warned that there will be a joint articulation between the Nation, Province and municipalities.
"We are going to make popular housing and also for the middle sectors through Procrear", he clarified.
It will have a
budget of $ 126 billion,
which is equivalent to the construction of
30 thousand homes
, but clarified that it will seek to articulate it with the
housing
funds
of the 24 provinces
.
He also mentioned that they will seek to provide solutions for those who have bought with UVA credits and that he thinks that investment in housing and public works works as a generator of employment.
The new member of
Alberto Fernández's team
confirmed that the mayor of Navarro
Santiago Maggiotti
will be his number 2. The mayor of Buenos Aires - who will be replaced by former soccer player and current councilor
Facundo Diz
-
met on Wednesday with Cafiero
, with whom he has very good tuning. Maggioti responds to the structure of the Buenos Aires PJ. Ferraresi,
Cristina Kirchner's
confidant
, denied that the Instituto Patria is taking over the government. “We are all within the Government and the president is Alberto and he was the one who made the proposal. Cristina has her role in the Senate. I am a member of a popular government and today I have this responsibility.
There is no fissure
. We are going to put Argentina on its feet ”, he declared.
