Almost six months after taking office, The Government of Javier Milei filled only 10% of the political positions in the national organizations that have delegations in Río Negro.
About 112 positions in 29 departments, so far there have only been 12 designations for hierarchical spaces, with marked progress this week, when the incorporation of six Anses local office holders was made official.
The delay in completing the scheme of those responsible shows two faces of libertarian management. The most friendly for Milei’s followers shows the fulfillment of the promise of reduction in public spending, based on the elimination of structures that generated an overpopulation of officials and employees.
But the scenario also reveals the lack of genuine representation for La Libertad Avanza in the provinces, something that led to the need to start conversations with professionals or former officials outside the mileista universe.
And in Río Negro there is an additional complexity: The appointment process is concentrated on representative Lorena Villaverdewho works with a small group of collaborators.
Consequently, management times are extended and in some sectors, the fact that 160 days of uncertainty regarding the chain of command have passed is something that is beginning to generate problems for residents who depend on decisions from the State.
As he was able to know RÍO NEGRO Diaryafter the appointments in Anses, The priority of the national ruling party is to resolve the appointments of delegates in Social Development and in the Ministry of Labor of the Nation.
The social area – now called Human Capital – became a concern because the demand for answers intensified in this first semester and there is no link between the political leaders of the ruling party in the province and the authorities of the portfolio led by Sandra Petovello.
In Labor, a little more progress was made and there is a demarcated path for some appointments, such as the case of the lawyer Viviana Sanchez In rock.
Something similar happens in Bariloche, where the responsibility would fall on Nicolas Verkysone of Villaverde’s main collaborators in the mountain region.
A controversial list, with dozens of names
Sánchez – who comes from the PRO and joined La Libertad Avanza weeks ago – together with Verkys appear on a list that circulated in recent days, with dozens of names, anticipating the supposed appointments that would be made in national organizations based in the province .
Villaverde’s entourage quickly came out to deny the veracity of that list and there are those who claim that Its diffusion corresponds to the political noises generated by internal rearrangements in the party.
In that sense, they mention as a turning point the changes that occurred in PAMI days ago, where not only was the executive director appointed in February, Carlos Montenegro, removed, but also the margin of action for Ariel Zúñiga and Mariano Bianchi, two of the closest collaborators that Villaverde had in the 2023 campaign.
The first had been appointed in charge of the social area of PAMI in the province, although this week it emerged that this Central Level resolution did not have formal validity and that action within the organization without having a firm appointment was what allowed the ATE union to activate the protest that ended with the arrival of the new executive director, Juan Ignacio Viñals.
It is true that the famous list has a rudimentary preparation, with cases that do not reflect the reality of the organisms.
For example, mention 10 political positions to be appointed in Senasa and from that organization, reliable sources indicated that since December there have been no movements that allow us to infer a departure for Ricardo Sánchez, also highlighting that positions in local offices are traditionally occupied by technicians, without the possibility of landing political leaders.
Something similar happens with the INTAwhere there are 15 positions supposedly to be appointed, with five names detailed for Viedma, Cipolletti, Bariloche, Allen and Regina, who are not part of the organization’s technical staff either.
Now, the list shows other names, which although they have not yet translated into appointments for the national delegations in the province, They do show with which political sector there were conversations.
Those mentioned are Marcial Peralta, Gabriel Savini and Germán Jalabert, former secretaries of Security, Management Control and Tourism of the province of the radical management of Miguel Saizrespectively.
RÍO NEGRO Diary was able to confirm this week that the conversations with Peralta existed (he appears as a potential representative of the Treasury Attorney General).
Regarding Jalabert and his possible arrival at the Interjurisdictional Authority of Cuencas, those around Deputy Villaverde denied that this possibility exists.
Savini is mentioned as a future member of Invap, where 100% of the shares are owned by the Province of Río Negro, although four members of the Board of Directors are appointed by the Province, two other spaces are reserved for the National Atomic Energy Commission and the remainder is chosen by the company’s staff.
The Roquense lawyer was consulted by this newspaper and said that he had no contacts with members of the current Government space and that he was unaware of the existence of his name on a possible list prior to appointments.
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- Political positions appear in a survey carried out by LLA on delegations of the national State in Río Negro. Only 12 positions have been filled so far: 9 in Anses, 1 in National Parks, 1 in Roads and 1 in PAMI.
The names and the “small table” of Villaverde in Bariloche
Beyond having been relativized and attributed to internal bids, the dissemination of the list with positions to be filled and potential national officials allows us to know who are or were on the radar of La Libertad Avanza, which in Río Negro seeks to grow and soon become political party recognized by the Electoral Justice.
And several of the names correspond to political leaders or former officials of Bariloche.
One of them is Martin Iriartea new reference for Deputy Villaverde in the mountain range, along with Nicholas Versky. He was a municipal official in Dina Huapi in the municipality of Mónica Balseiro (JSRN). His name appears for Social Development and for the Alto delegation of PAMI.
Verkys is a lawyer, a former municipal official in the radical administration of Marcelo Cascón. He accompanied Villaverde during the last visit of the Secretary of Tourism, Sports and Environment, Daniel Scioli, and It was presented by the representative to businessmen and other sectors as their reference.
In the list he appears linked to the AFIP, but other party sources indicated that his destination will be Labor.
For the National Transportation Regulatory Commission, it is mentioned Daniel Pincheira. He is a plant employee, of radical origin, but he was an official of Gustavo Gennuso in the Directorate of Transit and Transportation.
Finally, for Access to Justice, it is mentioned Joaquin Rodrigo. He is a lawyer, son of Rodolfo Rodrigo, ex-conventional, of Peronist origin.
Audit after the changes in National Highways
National Roads is one of the four organizations with a new delegate appointed in the province.
The Rock Enzo Fullone He assumed leadership of District 20 last month and in the first weeks, in addition to contact with the staff of each region, focused its work on an audit, aimed at finding out how many properties that national address has in Río Negro and in what state they are located.
The initial survey allowed us to detect eight properties in Viedma, mainly houses that are used for personnel who come to work in the capital from other areas. However, not all of these homes were in good condition and in some cases the risk of encroachment was detected.
That is why progress was made with the recovery of keys and in some specific cases, like the case of the historic house on Brown Street, The transfer to the Ministry of Human Capital was defined, to use that property in social support programs.
In the different departments of District 20 there are 158 employees, a staff that remained almost unchanged after the change of national government.
In addition to this internal survey, National Roads must resolve in the coming days on the request for the transfer of routes made by the provincial government.
