(DNA).- End of a stage. Governor Alberto Weretilneck closed the first section of the administration, leaving behind the attacks on the national government, the ostracism of the cabinet and the faded “Great Agreement.” The new phase promotes a new republican relationship with the Casa Rosada, returning to close contact with the people of Rio Negro and strengthening the link with the UCR and the PJ as an instrument for generating State policies.
It is the synthesis that he extended to officials and legislators in the meetings on Monday and Tuesday, with political and communication consultants. Faced with the diagnosis of an image in free fall of the president’s public image and a government that garners little enthusiasm, the ruling party applied a reset.
The meetings passed without much official information. Today, Government Minister Federico Lutz became spokesperson and explained the reasons for the change in attitude towards the national government and the vote of the Juntos deputy in favor of the Base Law. He also ratified the “Great Agreement” and recounted the broad strokes of the meetings to relaunch the administration.
“The first stage of management (gathering information, adapting to the position) is over and the executive side had to be launched,” he explained on Radio Raíces. The era of transformation, modernization and a new communication scheme more focused on digital networks and platforms begins.
“Weretilneck marked a turning point, it understands that there is no more time to think and it is time to act, to manage closely, to learn to govern with scarce resources, resources that will be limited at least throughout this year,” explained Lutz. , and confirmed: “we are changing the stage, the moment of appropriation of officials to their positions has passed and now we must act.”
Asked if there was an exhibition of opinion measurements, the Minister indicated that “no surveys were analyzed, but rather scenarios.” From the consultants “recommendations emerged regarding the near future of economic scarcity and the disruptive change of the national government. Also about how to appropriate in provincial terms, the profile of the governor who comes with a historical profile of closeness, territoriality and response to citizens, which has more power than structural changes.
The core of the experts’ explanation is the solidity of Juntos. “We continue to be the governance option for Río Negro, with all our deficits and impossibilities due to lack of resources, but the political muscle of Together and the Great Agreement is powerful and developed enough to continue being the best option for the province,” the Minister transmitted.
Lutz got into the chapter of the change that occurred regarding the position of the provincial government with the President.
«The policies that President Milei has applied have left the province in an operating deficit that we had not thought of, due to the restriction of funds that we already had established by laws such as the FONID, or by historically established funds such as Transportation. They had limited our access to the Comahue hydroelectric royalties, threatened mining and deep sea fishing in the gulf. These policies gave us a counterpoint with the President,” the official stressed, but he assured that “many of them were reduced in the debate, the initial DNU lost articles, the Base Law could be reformulated and ultimately, with some differences, the “Juntos deputy ended up accompanying the political line proposed by the national government, from the perspective that we have in the province, in which all rulers must have sufficient tools to carry out their government plan.”
The Minister elaborated: “democracy is an irreplaceable mandate and to the extent that the damages are not for any particular people, in this case the people of Rio Negro, we are going to give the President of the Nation the opportunity for his plan to resolve the macroeconomy.” “, without ceasing to defend the interests of the people of Rio Negro.”
He was questioned about the motivation for this new position: “The change is the product of accompanying, under a republican regime, the proposal of the national government.”
«We have not obtained any benefit as a province in the establishment of our vote in Congress. We understood that the negotiations had been carried out and sufficient spaces had been opened to be able to hold the debate before the Senate, but we have not made particular agreements, we believe that this will be left for a future instance,” he elaborated.
And he said: «The issue of mining and fishing has been resolved, we understand that the renegotiation of the fiscal pact can bring some benefits for the province, we have looked at some indicators about the recomposition of the tax items that are part of the national co-participation. , where there is a window of opportunities, to accompany the President’s position. So reasonably and with a decision based on the interests of the people of Rio Negro, in this instance we have accompanied,” he explained.
Asked about the current situation and the future of the agreement with the PJ and the UCR, he indicated: «we ratify the great agreement as the policy of the government and as the policy of the governing party. Governor Weretilneck himself said it, and we have put it into effect through the sharing of positions in the Cabinet and the participation of the different leaders of the different political forces in the sessions that we held on Monday and Tuesday. We truly believe that the great agreement is in force, that it is a proposal for the people of Rio Negro that is of utmost importance, that makes Río Negro the axis of decision-making regarding public policies and the path is ratified.
And he clarified that “what happens in the great agreement in national terms is that there are always, at the three levels of governance (nation, province and municipalities), actions that can be disruptive due to some ideological inconsistencies that may end up existing between the actors.” politicians”. But he asserted that “we understand that through dialogue, through political construction, this can be resolved.”
