“We are still in the same place where we have always been. We believe in good management, in fiscal surplus, in good economic administration and in the defense of Neuquén. In that we agree with the governor (Rolando Figueroa), but “As a party we have not decided anything yet”emphasized the mayor of Cutral Co, Ramón Rioseco, about the president’s invitation to put together a common front to compete in the 2025 elections.
The Cutralquense referred to the coming political scenario, although he toned down the possibility of integrating a front a bit.
In the last visit that the governor made to Cutral Co for the inauguration of the expansion of the guard of the Medium Complexity hospital, he responded to the current political situation and expectations for 2025.
At that time Figueroa said that he is dedicated to the construction of a “front of neuquinidad” and that they will receive all those expressions, where there is a point of agreement.
The mayor stated that he has been involved in political activity for 30 years and, since then, He was always in a progressive space, in opposition to the official government.
«If there is a proposal, it will surely have to be analyzed, but in principle“We are still in the same place where we have always been,” emphasized Rioseco, who is the creator of the Neuquén Front and Participation (FypN), a party chaired since the beginning of this month by his sister Teresa, a former deputy.
He stressed that the space it represents has as its axes good management, fiscal surplus, good economic administration and the development of public works for the well-being of the people and the defense of Neuquén.
«In that we agree with the governor (in the defense of Neuquén). That is a great point of agreement, but we have not decided anything yet as a party«he explained.
That is a starting point and a point of coincidence, according to the Cutralquense who defends federalism and maintains that Neuquén’s resources are, in his opinion, “very desirable by centralism.”
In this sense, Rioseco considers that It is necessary to stay united to manage and plan the sharing of royalties, investment development planning to ensure legal security for investments. «In that sense we agree, but more than anything in the defense of Neuquén in a comprehensive manner, not only in a temporary partisan issue because three senators and three deputies are elected,” he noted.
In this regard, he recalled that national legislators must defend Neuquén. «Today the official government does not have any deputy or senator and that complicates it in the face of an eventual negotiation with the National Government. In that sense we agree on the defense of Neuquén,” he described.
However, he said that making the political decision at this time to articulate a program common electoral is an issue that must be put to the consideration of the FypN and nothing has been decided.
Rioseco pointed out that there is a lot of work ahead to do taking into account that Argentina is moving towards unitarism which, in his opinion, was born in the reform of the 1994 Constitution.
«I think that this Constitution was tailored to Milei unfortunately. Today he is applying it to his measure. And maybe we won’t be able to complain. So, given that we cannot complain, what we do is take our future into our own hands,” he said.
He explained that the declaration of the public emergency was made here and that Neuquén should adopt the same position. “Neuquén has to take the future into its own hands, it has to be Dubai,” she repeated.
Figueroa has already sealed an agreement with the mayor of Neuquén, Mariano Gaido (MPN), to shield the possibility of the electoral offer being dispersed in 2025, and thus retain the majority of the seats in dispute, both in the Deputies and the Senate.
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- seats are at stake in the 2025 election for Neuquén: three in the Senate (Parrilli, Sapag and Crexell) and three in Deputies (Bertoldi, Cervi, Llancafilo).
