By Bettina Marengo
In the midst of the tremor in the Ministry of Human Capital of the Nation due to the conflict over food not distributed to vulnerable sectors, this Friday the ministers of the social area of the provinces of Santa Fe and Entre Ríos come to Córdoba, within the framework of a new meeting of the Central Region. The idea is to form the Permanent Board of Social Policies of the entity, as was already done with Security with the presence of the Santa Fe governor Maximiliano Pullaro. There is talk of the same scheme for the Education area. The photo will bring together three women: Laura Jure, Minister of Social Development and Employment Promotion of Córdoba, María Victoria Tejeda, of Equality and Human Development of Santa Fe and Verónica Berisso, of Human Development of Entre Ríos. It is likely that Governor Martín Llaryora will come to share the meeting, which will also be at the Civic Center itself.
Nothing is coincidental in politics although in Córdoba they seek to separate the agenda of the Central Region from the crisis in which the “best minister” of President Javier Milei, Sandra Petovello, is mired, whose collaborators continue to be identified. On Friday, Fernando Szereszevsky, Chief of Staff and personal friend of the minister, left. What happened on Friday is “in compliance with the integration, strengthening and consolidation of the Region in all thematic areas,” commented Carlos Massei, the Schiarettista secretary of the Central Region for Córdoba, while from the Panal they assure that it will not leave activity no document critical of Milei’s social policy (or lack thereof), but a promise of collaboration and integration between three provinces that seek to set a federal standard and show strength as a bloc. One shot per lift though.
In Córdoba they do not expect anything from the social side of Milei, and from the ruling party they emphasize that the NGO Conin, to whom the Nation gave the distribution of the food when the Justice took the complaint of the leader Juan Grabois, has only two locations in Córdoba: one on the way to the Airport and another in 60 blocks. “They are not concerned or concerned,” emphasized a source familiar with Nation-Province relations.
The truth is that after the failure – which Alfil reported for the first time a week ago – of the meeting of Cordoba officials with the now former second of Petovello, the fired Pablo de la Torre, to raise concerns about the food issue, it seems to have been diluted the interest of the people of Córdoba in trying to repeat a meeting “that was a waste of time.” For that meeting, which was three weeks ago, Jure could not travel and his deputy Paulo Cassinerio and the Minister of Human Development Liliana Montero did so. De la Torre told them that the Nation would only support individual aid, such as the Universal Child Allowance. Hence, the provincial government understands that Milei is going to put its efforts in the AUH, that the Empower Work that is linked to social organizations is going to be diluted by inflation and that the food contribution is not in the account of the Pettovello wallet. That is to say, the Casa Rosada is going to have a scheme similar to the one it has with public works and transportation with food and social assistance, areas in which the weight of investments and transfers to the provinces was removed with the objective to maintain its zero deficit objective.
Even so, Córdoba did not sign, last week, the request for Petovello to convene the Federal Council of Ministers of Social Development (CoFeDeSo) that eight provinces signed, including Buenos Aires, La Rioja, Formosa, Jujuy, Misiones, Santiago del Estero, La Pampa and Tierra del Fuego, with the aim of knowing the public policies that the Milei management wants to implement in social matters. Neither did Santa Fe, where the radical Pullaro has an ambivalent relationship with Milei, nor Entre Ríos, where Rogelio Frigerio of the friendly PRO governs.
At Panal they do not believe that the changes in Human Capital, with the departure of dozens of officials, will change the fiscal line. They will bank it, with minimal reactions. Not out of love, because in the off-site talks with the second and third lines of the ruling party, the officials express their rejection of the model, but out of pragmatism and resignation. Firstly, because they are reading in surveys the popular support that Milei enjoys in Córdoba; The second is because what the people of Córdoba do not demand from the President, they ask from the Province, as in the case of Fonid, or from the local governments.
