06/20/2021 4:33 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 06/20/2021 4:33 PM
Forty days after the extension of the Parana-Paraguay Waterway concession expires, more than 50 referents from different areas but who have in common their identification with Kirchnerism
came out to demand the nationalization of that navigable route
, the exit door of more than 80% of Argentina's exports.
Through a proclamation, issued to coincide with
Flag Day, they
demanded the end of the current concession and "
recover for the State and for all Argentines the essential control
and administration of the river route."
The "Proclamation of June 20" bears the signatures of political, union, social, business, religious, jurists, academics, artists and journalists
aligned with Kirchnerism
.
Paraná-Paraguay Waterway:
Among the signatories are the Cristinista deputy Fernanda Vallejos;
Senator
María de los Ángeles Sacnun
;
the trade unionists Pablo Moyano and Roberto Baradel;
former vice president Amado Boudou;
the former Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice Raúl Zaffaroni;
the vice president of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA)
Guillermo Moretti
;
the social leaders
Juan Carlos Alderete
and Juan Grabois, among others.
In line with the claims of other Kirchnerist sectors, the signers of the proclamation demanded that the State "
assume control and administration of the most important river route in the country,
collect the toll and advance in the construction of the Magdalena Canal."
"Today we are faced with the opportunity to regain control of Paraná - a crucial channel for Argentine foreign trade through which most of our exports and imports circulate - raising the flag of our Sovereignty very high", highlights Proclamation 20 of June devised by the May 25 Group.
The May 25 Group had demonstrated on that national date in favor of prioritizing the health of Argentines before paying the foreign debt and telling Alberto Fernández
how he should negotiate with the Fund
.
"The end of this concession in our Paraná opens the possibility that the State, and with it, the Argentine people, regain control and administration in a strategic area,
retracing the path of the riches of the 90s," he
said. Congresswoman Vallejos.
On April 30, the Executive Branch extended the current concession for a period of 90 days, and then called a substantive tender.
The extension took place in the midst of an
offensive
by sectors of the ruling party to nationalize the Hidrovía.
Other signatories
Until now, the decision of the Casa Rosada is to
return to the concessionaire,
but with greater control by the State.
"On July 30, the
opportunity
opens
to recover, for the State and for all Argentine men and women, the essential control and administration of the most important river route in the country," the May 25 Group underlined.
"I support this demand defending our independence, country and flag, and fundamentally our dignity against those interests that
only care about making money
and taking it abroad by exploiting the workers," said truck driver Pablo Moyano.
The proclamation was also signed by Judge
Roberto Andrés Gallardo
;
the head of the General Inspection of Justice (IGJ),
Ricardo Nissen
;
the owner of the Rural Society (SRA) of Córdoba,
Pedro Salas
;
and the also rural reference
Pedro Peretti
.
José Luis Gioja, one of the signatories.
.
In addition, the national deputy and former governor of San Juan, José Luis Gioja; the deputy of the Parlasur Gastón Harispe; the constitutionalists
Jorge Cholvis
and
Eduardo Barcesat
; the artists Cecilia Roth,
Liliana Herrero
, Luisa Kuliok,
Katja Alemann
,
Ignacio Coppani
,
Marian Farias Gómez
; the intellectual
Mempo Giardinelli
; former Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa; the psychologist
Jorge Alemán
; the historian
Norberto Galasso
; the sociologists
Atilio Borón
and
Mónica Peralta Ramos
; retired general
Roberto Bendini
; the former Minister of Economy Felisa Miceli; and the journalist Víctor Hugo Morales, among others.