08/22/2021 7:36 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/22/2021 7:36 PM
Determined to make one of his campaign axes on the issue of insecurity, which is always at the top of people's concerns and greatest dramas, especially in the populous Buenos Aires suburbs,
Diego Santilli,
head of the list of candidates for deputies for Together, they
went out to hit Kirchnerism hard and generated a wave of replicas
not only from their direct rival from Todismo in the Province, but also from the National Security Secretariat.
“The prisoners are released, the drug trafficker returns to the neighborhood, and the government looks the other way. There is no political decision to face these problems, and it seems that Kirchnerism is more concerned with the perpetrator than the victim, ”
Santilli fired in statements to
Clarín
, and reiterated what already seems to be a slogan of his campaign.
"Security in Argentina is turned upside down."
But in addition, the candidate of Juntos - who competes in the internal opposition alliance against the radical
Facundo Manes
- sank his finger in the sore of the
differences
that are constantly expressed, since the beginning of the management of the Frente de Todos,
the most responsible of the national security area and the Province.
"I recognize
(Sergio) Berni for
his attitude and experience, of facing problems, of being in the territory. But he has two difficulties. The first is that
his political leadership is more in favor of the criminals than of the workers and that is why the drug traffickers returned to the neighborhoods, that is why they liberate the hot zones,
and that is why the police are not on the street. And the second problem is that there is no coordination and planning in conjunction with the Minister of National Security ",
Sabina Frederic .
The controversy did not take long to explode.
Eduardo Villalba
, Secretary of National Security,
left at the Santilli crossing
.
"They are campaign statements,
" he told Clarín.
That they do not go hand in hand with the reality of security, which has been complex in the province of Buenos Aires and in the rest of the country for many years ”.
And he added: “He knows well that the thing is not as he poses it.
Santilli was also a manager in the City [he resigned as Buenos Aires minister of the area when he launched the campaign] and he knows that he does not go through statements ”.
Villalba also came out to deny that there is a different "security model" in the City.
“That is not verified in any case.
The City continues to have, after 14 years of macrismo, problems of insecurity ”, he
assured, and defended the role of federal forces in the Province.
“There are more than 5,000 federal forces working in citizen security and this is done in 34 municipalities.
They are not thrown away without sense but they are in operations and deployed ”, he
affirmed.
It is that Santilli has been raising among his proposals
"to put police in the street, patrolling permanently"
by stating that there are 10 to 15 thousand troops who do "administrative tasks".
He also said that to stop the crime there must be a modification of the Criminal Procedure Code "so that offenders of serious crimes such as armed robbery, homicide, rape,
do not enter through one door and exit through the other."
Replica of Tolosa Paz
In the dispute on this key issue, the candidate of the Frente de Todos en Provincia,
Victoria Tolosa Paz also got involved:
“Security problems are not solved by increasing the number of police officers but by improving police training, training and equipment;
the rest is media discourse and spectacularisation of security ”.
Tolosa Paz accused the macrista administration of
"irresponsibly dismantling" the security infrastructure.
According to him, the Gendarmerie had 13 planes in 2015 and when Kirchnerism returned to the government in 2019, there were 3 left.
In statements to this newspaper, the candidate also came to the crossroads of criticism of the differences between the Nation and the province governed by
Axel Kicillof
and said that "a clear example of the coordination of the Nation and the Province of Buenos Aires, unlike what they say about Frederic and Berni "are the 5,000 federal troops that are deployed.
The arguments of the national and provincial ruling party were also replicated by
Gerardo Milman,
who was Secretary of National Security under Patricia Bullrich, and is now on the lists of deputies from Santilli.
"During our tenure, the largest investment in material and technology was made for the federal security forces," said Milman. He questioned that there are currently no statistics and assured that "today everything was abandoned and drugs are taking over all neighborhoods due to the inaction on the part of the political leadership of the State,
the lack of coordination between the Nation and the Province of Buenos Aires is dramatic
.
"
