Postcard of recession and the prelude to the Neuquén fight for the Senate

The extent of the damage caused by the chainsaw and the Mileist blender became even more severe with the electricity tariffs of 100%, as soon as 2024 begins, without mentioning the successive fuel adjustments and the consequent impact on logistics.

The rampant recession, with no less fierce inflation, will have an additional death blow to domestic consumption when this week the Chamber of Deputies authorizes 800 thousand employees pay Income Tax again. This legislative pass will leave no less than 20 thousand oil workers –those with the highest consumption elasticity in the region- with reduced purchasing power.

The spill that the State of Neuquén can contribute is subject to the start of the public works plan which will begin after the approval of the debt by 500 million dollars in the Legislature.

So, Rolando Figueroa will arrive with a certain air to the first test to whom the ballot boxes will subject him 2025 midterm electionswhich will be the most determinants of recent years.

The province will put into play three seats in the Senatea chamber that can give the governor the last spring of power that his political construction is missing, even more than the other three that will be renewed in the Chamber of Deputies.

The north of an agenda

Figueroa, as things are, will continue to set the agenda and will have the air to keep the unprecedented coalition that allowed him dethrone the MPN from powerfirst at the polls, and now, put him at his mercy with important leaders who previously reported to one of the chiefs (already diminished) of the provincial party.

The package of dollars that the head of the Neuquén Executive will have at his disposal places him in a Privileged position Front of devastation that leaves anarcho-capitalist economic policy.

The local conglomerate that drank in La Libertad Avanza gave the traditional parties a hard blow in last year’s presidential elections and the rising local leaders will be the only ones with resources in Buenos Aires to propose an aggressive campaign in the 2025 legislative elections.

It is that the Pink House precise as much as Figueroa of the two benches in the Upper House that will remain for the winning force in Neuquén. The third seat, of a Senate vital for the counterbalance of the provinceswill be the consolation prize for whoever comes second. This allows us to glimpse, right now, the feature that such a decisive campaign would acquire in the endless battle for power in Argentina.

The public works plan that Figueroa prepares It also goes in the direction of its objectives political and electoral even when the needs of the provincial interior they don’t stop multiplying. This is how the consolidation of its leadership is outlined in such a presentoverbearing like the postcards of the empty commercial premises in the city of Neuquén and that of a more impoverished citizenry, or never more fed up than now with political campaigns.