After the Government announced the closure of 40% of the Automotive Property Registries, the union announced a total strike starting tomorrow, Monday, for an indefinite period.
“There will be no collection to turn around. The measure covers all Sectional Registries and their registry workers,” the National Directorate of Automotive Property Registries said in a statement.
“By virtue of what has been publicly stated, concerning the closure of a percentage of RR.SS (Sectional Registries), the registry workers communicate that, given the circumstances that threaten our source of employment and consequently the RR.SS that provide it to us, “We have decided to cease registration activities until the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights calls our managers to dialogue,” the union reported.
The strike will begin on May 6 at 8:30 a.m. and, as indicated by the workers, will continue until they are called to establish dialogue with the authorities of the national government.
“In this framework, there will be no revenue to transfer to said Ministry. The measure covers all Sectional Registries and their registry workers throughout the Argentine Republic,” the statement adds.
Although the DNU of the National Executive Branch stipulated that on May 2 a new digital Automotive Registry of national scope should be put into operation, whose operation must be remote, open, accessible and standardized, one day after that deadline expired, the Ministry of Justice of the Nation, to which the National Directorate of Automotive and Related Property Registries (Dnrpa) depends, made public some provisions that go in that direction, some of which are of immediate application.
The problem was attacked in general, with decisions that impact the Registries as dependencies in themselves, the users with fewer procedures and costs, and the registry system in its structure, with processes that allow us to continue later with the deeper transformation that For now it cannot be done.
Some 620 offices will close if the data is taken from the 1,554 registrations throughout the country
The most striking due to its magnitude is the decision to close 40% of the current Automotive Registries, which implies about 620 agencies if the data of 1,554 registrations throughout the country are taken.
Within them, all those that were currently intervened and with audits in process will be closed, some started more than two years ago, and others since the assumption of the administration of Javier Milei.
In the same direction, it was also decided to reduce 30% of the staff of the Automotive Registration Directorate, within an appropriate framework such as offering voluntary retirement plans and early retirement.
These two measures underpin the foundations of the reform of the automobile registration system, questioned by the President during his electoral campaign, in which he repeatedly described the Automobile Registries as “political boxes” and part of the “caste that lives off State”.
Reducing them to just over half follows a logic of reducing public spending and maintaining fiscal balance, and could be considered the first step towards the ultimate goal that has always been to close them completely and replace them with a remote digital tool.
These measures are complemented by another announced in the same resolution, which determines that the holders of the sectional records will be responsible for 100% of their operating costs, adapting their income to the task actually performed and their productivity. Justicia reserves the right to control at all times the cost structure of the Records Keepers.
Sectional registries will be responsible for 100% of their operating costs
Of the more than 1,500 automobile registrations in the country, more than 200 are in the hands of relatives or friends of former presidents, legislators, judges, mayors, councilors or soldiers who, according to President Javier Milei, are a “job” of “the breed”. These are people who respond to Peronism in all its branches, to radicalism or to the PRO.
An automotive registration can give a monthly profit, after deducting expenses, of between “4 and 12 million pesos per month” depending on the city in which it operates. That is why it is a prized object for some politicians.
The Buenos Aires PRO deputy Patricia Vásquez stated that among the beneficiaries appear “in Mar del Plata, Fernando Greco (linked to the former head of the ANSES and Cámpora activist Fernanda Raverta); in Tigre, Melina Andreozzi (linked to Sergio Massa); in Quilmes, Analía Dreyer (Aníbal Fernández); San Isidro, Florencia Weber (María Eugenia Doro Urquiza, former head of Cristina Kirchner’s DNRPEA); San Fernando Ramón Canicoba (Former federal judge Rodolfo Canicoba del Corral)”, among others.
