Axel Kicillof
was scheduled to give his
opening speech
at the Buenos Aires Legislature, in La Plata, but the massive power outage that affected a large part of the country and the province he governs in particular, caused him to
postpone his presentation until it was cancelled. , without announcing a new date
.
After three hours of uncertainty - the event was scheduled for 5:00 p.m. this Wednesday - the governor announced the
suspension "before the emergency"
on Twitter and in official statements .
In fact, that's how the official text began.
"Given
the emergency generated by the widespread power outage
, it has been resolved to postpone the opening of the legislative sessions that were to take place on the day of the date," the statement said.
"The Provincial Cabinet is meeting in the Governor's Office to
monitor conditions in the Province
and attend to situations that may arise due to the inconvenience. Each of the ministers of the areas involved, as well as the mayors of each district of the Province, will They will address the contingency," added the brief text.
At the time of the suspension -and during all the time of debate about what to do beforehand- the Buenos Aires Legislature had light.
But the governor chose to postpone his speech until the final cancellation, announced after 7:00 p.m.
It is that the city of La Plata was affected and therefore, the ceremony began to be extended with the idea of waiting for the return of the service.
Besides.
At that time, he received reports from the users of Edesur and Edenor in the Buenos Aires suburbs that were left without power.
And other Buenos Aires distributors were also affected.
In La Plata, 42,000 Edelap users have no power.
The same happens with 70 thousand users of EDES (the distributor that supplies the cities of Patagones, Bahía Blanca and Lamadrid) and some
60,000 of EDEN
(which works in the northwest of the province).
On the Atlantic coast, service was quickly restored.
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