07/16/2021 11:04
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/16/2021 11:26 AM
Without naming him, Alberto Fernández accused the former Interior Minister Rogelio Frigerio of leaving "14 thousand homes undistributed" during his tenure, so that "no one who lived in those homes would remember that they were made at the time (of the government of the then president) Cristina (Kirchner) ".
After the words of the president, Frigerio picked up the glove and responded to Alberto Fernández through his Twitter account where he regretted his words and assured: "During my management at the head of the Ministry we received the public works paralyzed for almost 1 year and the builders They hadn't been paid for their work for several months.
It was all much more story than reality
. "
At the event in the Buenos Aires town of Guernica this Thursday, the President had fired at the opposition and focused his criticism on Frigerio: "There is a candidate for deputy in Entre Ríos who was in charge of the Public Works area and the area of Housing. It had 14 thousand houses practically finished to deliver and it
did not deliver them
".
Regarding the houses referred to by the head of state, Frigerio said that "they had multiple problems that had to be resolved: they had no sewers or drinking water, there were no electricity or gas connections. Many did not even have windows."
I regret your sayings at yesterday's ceremony in Guernica, Mr. President @alferdez.
During my tenure at the head of the Ministry, we received the public works paralyzed for almost 1 year and the builders had not been paid for their work for several months.
- Rogelio Frigerio (@frigeriorogelio) July 16, 2021
On the other hand, the former Interior Minister of Mauricio Macri remarked to Fernández that
"these houses are neither owned by the vice president nor by any government
.
"
"The public work
belongs to
each and every one of the Argentines who finance them with their taxes.
Do not try to appropriate what does not correspond to them
," he stated.
That was because the President had indicated that Frigerio did not hand over those houses "because he did not want anyone who lived in those houses to remember that those houses were built in Cristina's time."
In one of his messages on the social network Twitter, Frigerio criticized that the President is conducting an "electoral campaign, blaming and passing bills" while the country is going through "a very distressing moment."
He also pointed out that the party that makes up Fernández governed "14 of the last 18 years."
And he suggested: "
Stop governing with the rear-view mirror
, don't divide us more than we already are. We need a president who ends the confrontations and
spends 100% of his time solving the concrete problems of the people
. Count on us for that ".
Less than a month ago the president took advantage of the Banking Association congress to criticize the opposition leaders and then pointed out against Frigerio and the claim for the same houses: “Everyone comes back from the ashes, abusing the tragedy that we are living, and leaving aside what they were able to do ”.
He had also indicated harshly: “I understand that the tragedy of the pandemic has us all concerned, but please do not forget where we started from;
those responsible have a first and last name and are on television channels giving lectures on what they did not know how to do ”.
Frigerio, after requesting a spirit of unity from the head of state, recalled: "Let's not forget that the person in charge of housing in the previous Kirchner government was José López, who flipped bags in a convent, clearly it was necessary to review all those performances. "
The reference is to the former Secretary of Public Works, who has been detained for almost five years, after in 2016 the Police found him trying to hide bags with nine million dollars in a General Rodríguez convent.
In addition, he remarked that this government took office a year and a half ago, which although it acknowledged it did so in the midst of a very complicated situation, it has not had good results.
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