The Government gives the Evita Movement a strategic cash of $ 2,500 million

Bernardo Vazquez

01/14/2021 4:13 PM

• Clarín.com

• Politics

Updated 01/14/2021 17:52

Some state funds go unnoticed due to their name, which is long and difficult to explain, but they are important due to the millionaire amounts they handle and the development of the tasks they carry out.

An example of this is the National Institute of Associativism and Social Economy (Inaes), which will

administer $ 2.5 billion during 2021

and its mission, according to the budget, is to contribute to the strengthening of the sector, which brings together the activity of cooperatives and mutuals throughout the country.

After the death of Mario Cafiero, its owner, in September of last year, Inaes was led by a board member, Nahum Mirad.

But in the next few hours

the Government will appoint a new head

, who

responds directly to the Evita Movement: the sociologist Alexandre Roig,

French, and with a long career in the space, in addition to having been dean of the Institute of High Social Studies (Idaes), dependent from the University of San Martín (Unsam).

Roig has been working as an advisor in the Secretariat of Social Economy,

which depends on Emilio Persico, leader of the Evita Movement.

Their arrival, they say in the sector, would once again give the Institute a welfare profile, as happened in times when it depended on the Ministry of Social Development, Daniel Arroyo, and not the Ministry of Productive Development, Matías Kulfas, which was took over the area in February of last year looking to give it a more productive look.

However, official sources confirmed that Inaes will continue to be under the supervision of Desarrollo Productivo.

The possible landing of Roig has been analyzed in different meetings since last week, in which, in addition to government officials, Persico and

Fernando "Chino" Navarro, a reference for Evita and, in addition, secretary of Parliamentary and Institutional Relations of the Head of Cabinet.

Roig's name, like that of others, arose from those who have known him for years as a member of the Movement, which he joined in 2001, during the social and economic crisis that Argentina suffered.

But he gained strength and gained weight in the last hours.

The arrival of a new head of Inaes does not imply, according to executive sources consulted by

Clarín

, that the area will change ministry again.

At La Rosada they are convinced that due to the importance of maintaining solid ties with the cooperative and mutual sector -where there is a strong presence of unions-, which it oversees, it will continue under the orbit of Productive Development and will not return to Social Development nor to Territorial Development and Habitat, led by Jorge Ferraresi.

The appointment of Roig and the arrival of the Evita Movement

to an official structure, from which funds arise that are destined for social organizations, generates unease in the cooperative sector.

Some of those that make up the sector are, for example, Coninagro and Sancor Seguros.

It also produces short-circuits with hard Kirchnerism

within the ruling party due to the distribution of functions, positions of power, and the management of key boxes.

One of the functions of Inaes, according to the budget, is to promote the "strengthening and promotion of associativism as a vehicle to achieve the common good and sustainable development."

In the forecast of funds for 2021, the agency has resources for $ 2.492 million, which are distributed in four programs: $ 1.903 million for Promotion, Training and Mutual Cooperative Development;

$ 375 million for Management and Administration;

$ 180 million for the cooperative and mutual Controller function;

and $ 34 million for the cooperative and mutual Registry.

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