The Minister of Social Development of the province governed by Ricardo Quintela, maintained that “Carlos Menem would not be proud of him at all.”
Alfredo MenemMinister of Social Development of the province of La Rioja, charged against his cousin, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Martin Menem, and held him responsible for “hindering” the sending of funds to the province. “Martín grew up in Buenos Aires. He does not know any neighborhood in our city, much less does he know the interior of the province. He may know far from the need of the people of Rioja,” said Alfredo Menem.
“We convey and even publicly ask Martín and Lule [Eduardo Menem] to stop hindering the province’s resources. Martín has to look out for the people who voted for him. “He is sitting representing the people of Rioja on a bench in Congress and has to prioritize the defense of the interests of the people of Rioja and not the model that he represents, which is concentrating, exclusive, discriminatory and insensitive,” said Alfredo Menem in dialogue with Radio With you.
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The minister of the government led by Ricardo Quintela in La Rioja praised the former president and also former provincial governor Carlos Menem and marked differences with the head of the lower house. “Carlos Menem would not be proud of Martin Menem at all. I can assure you and you can ask anyone here in our province,” he criticized.
The Riojan official expanded his vision: “Carlos Menem was a guy who reached consensus, who negotiated, who was hurt by the pain of the most humble. If you come here to La Rioja and go to a neighborhood, you will surely hear very good things about Carlos Menem because he visited the neighborhoods, he knows about the needs of the people.”
Alfredo Menem, however, stated that he meets with his cousins at family events and that he has a good personal relationship. “We talked and the truth is that I respect him because he defends his interests and we discuss him a lot, but he remains in the discussion and I understand it,” he expressed, although he reiterated their differences: “I am at the antipodes of the model that he It represents. “I represent a model that distributes, that generates quality of life and that proposes that social justice is above personal interests.”
Without interlocutor
The head of Social Development of the province located in the north of the country regretted not having an “interlocutor” in the Ministry of Human Capital directed by Sandra Pettovello. “Let’s go to what should be normal: when a presidential administration assumes and the teams are formed, the referent in this case of the minister, begins to convene the ministers to be able to develop a policy or program or projects for the different provinces. It didn’t happen and I don’t think it will ever happen,” she stated.
“The Government is failing to fulfill an obligation that it should fulfill,” he expressed in relation to the Executive’s social assistance. “Today the province of La Rioja and many other provinces are taking responsibility for the province’s budgetary allocation, which is established by the national budget, where what is allocated for school cafeterias, which is dry food, was allocated. La Rioja received around 10,000, 12,000 kilos per month of dry food for the operation of community kitchens,” he noted.
Alfredo Menem expressed that a majority of Ministers of Social Development from different provinces met three times since Javier Milei took office as President. The first in the province of Buenos Aires convened by the head of Buenos Aires Social Development, Andrés Larroque. The second, in the house of the province of La Rioja, located in the city of Buenos Aires. And one last time this Monday. “We got together to generate this document and this morning in person we delivered this request and request to the ticket table,” he said in reference to the new request that they delivered to the portfolio headed by Pettovello, at a time when the ministry is in turmoil due to the dismissals of senior officials after the food stockpile.
In relation to whether the new Chief of Staff and former Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, could become a valid interlocutor, he considered: “From what I know and from what our governor tells us, he had two or three meetings with Guillermo Francos that were on very good terms, also in understanding, but not in decision-making power.” “It solves absolutely nothing if the President does not give the go-ahead,” he stressed.
