Fabian Debesa
05/28/2021 10:58 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/28/2021 10:58 AM
Axel Kicillof will build “mini governorates” in 134 municipalities to concentrate all the procedures related to the provincial administration in these buildings.
It will be a millionaire investment in infrastructure
and the decision caused a chain reaction from sectors of the opposition that consider that it is an attempt to condition the task of the mayors and to set up “parallel municipalities” to drive a wedge in the efforts of Juntos for the change.
The program "Houses of the Province" appeared this Thursday with the first tender for the work to be carried out in Baradero.
In the next three weeks another 24 constructions will be awarded to build in Chascomús, Ezeiza, Necochea, Bolívar, Olavarría, Saladillo, General Viamonte, Pila and Madariaga among other cities.
The 2021 budget approved by the Legislature contemplates just over 12 billion pesos for the first part of this program.
The final calculation determines another future outlay of 46 billion according to official estimates to take the delegations of the Government to each of the heads of the Province, with the exception of La Plata, obviously, where the head of the Buenos Aires State works.
Kicillof announces the creation of "Province Houses" throughout the territory and criticism rains
In the Kicillof government, they maintain that in these “Houses” there are centralized units of ARBA, the Provincial Registry of People, IOMA, the Ministry of Labor, the health regions, the educational units and also offices of the Bapro.
“Facilitate the procedures for citizens.
Make the management of public issues more agile ”, according to the definition given to Clarín by the provincial government minister, María Teresa García.
For years, the tasks of these offices and others that report to La Plata have been deployed in hundreds of buildings rented by the central government.
“In some cases, rents that are too expensive are paid, for decades.
With this initiative we want to plant a definitive solution ”, is the argument of Minister García.
The controversy came with the opening of the first envelopes.
The infrastructure ministry plans to allocate between 140 and 180 million pesos for each undertaking.
There will be offices with two floors and 781 square meters and others with three floors and 1150 meters.
In the opposition they speak of "intervention" to the municipalities
, of "political commissars" who would reach the communes administered by Together for Change and of "electoral strategy, to inaugurate works in the campaign".
Kicillof announces the creation of "Province Houses" throughout the territory and criticism rains
The resounding bell was the Legislature. “It is nonsense to build dozens of state administrative structures in the midst of the pandemic. Spending more than 180 million for each undertaking is not part of the Buenos Aires' priorities, ”stated deputy Guillermo Bardón (Federal Change, from Emilio Monzó's group). "They do not report how much is spent on rents and we do not understand the opportunity or the priority criteria for such an investment in the midst of the coronavirus crisis," added the legislator who presented a request for information.
“It goes against decentralization and our demands for greater municipal autonomy.
It generates new costs for the State.
It is similar to what Kicillof did with the vaccination campaign: he set up premises parallel to our health centers.
A structure parallel to the one that operates in each district.
It is all expense and waste of public funds ”, stated the mayor of Pergamino, Javier Martínez (JxC).
More complaints: “They want to set up parallel local governments where the municipality is run by the opposition.
It is anachronistic, it seems a viceregal format, ”they said near the office of Guillermo Montenegro, mayor of Mar del Plata.
“This is not getting close to the neighbors.
It is a new story disguised as a supposed decentralization ”, according to deputy Fernando Rovello, from the PRO within JxC.
In the Interior they insist that it is a measure to favor administrative functioning. “In many cases, for the same procedure, a neighbor has to go from the Civil Registry to ARBA and from there to a BAPRO cashier to process a stamp. And for that you have to take two groups. The idea is to unify all the provincial procedures in one place, ”Garcia gave as an example.
He also ruled out that new officials can be appointed.
There will be no "mini governors" who can dispute powers with the mayors.
“There is not even going to be a delegate.
All the provincial departments and agencies that are now scattered throughout the territory are only unified in a physical place, ”he argued.
The agent roster will also remain stable.
They will go to the new buildings, the employees who today work in the different scattered areas in the territory.
A controversy that advances the first steps and that promises to continue.
Like every brick that is placed in the new Houses of the Province.
La Plata (Correspondent)
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