Rawson Federal Judge Hugo Sastre rejected the collective protection presented by the Chubut Ombudsman’s Office in which the need to regulate the indiscriminate increases in natural gas rates established by ENARGAS and the National Energy Secretariat was raised. Now the Chubut Ombudsman will appeal the case and it will be the Federal Chamber of Comodoro Rivadavia that must make a decision.
As detailed by the Chubut Ombudsman’s Office, which is headed by Claudia Bard, the decision has been based on “that the provinces and municipalities can only create bodies to act within the scope of their respective powers, without being able to invade those that correspond to the government.” federal, or to other provinces or municipalities.”
Previously, in conversation with Crónica, the Ombudsman had already foreseen this situation: “Both the Province and us Ombudsmen, other than for personal consumption, we cannot make presentations, because we are not legitimized to do so because it is a national decision.” , he had explained.
Even so, given the urgency of the situation and given that a National Ombudsman has not yet been appointed, progress would have been made in the same way, understanding that the organization must take action to actively defend the rights of Chubut users.
In this regard, the entity explained the issue in depth: “When provinces create local ombudsmen, they can only create control bodies for their own administrations, but no province or municipality is empowered to create a body that interferes with the actions of the Administration. National Public. In fact, the ombudsmen do not have political representation of the people nor are they custodians of the people’s rights. They are control bodies that local administrations have established to control the progress of their own administrations.”
But they added: “This Ombudsman’s Office understands and understands the legal basis set forth by Judge Hugo Sastre, but we consider it necessary to defend the interests of our citizens before that court, since only the Ombudsman would be actively legitimized to intervene in these cases. People of the Nation, a position that is vacant, generating a state of defenselessness for the citizens of the provinces who see their rights overwhelmed by the abusive actions of the National State,” he emphasized.
Considering this, they have confirmed that they will appeal the Interlocutory Sentence of the Federal Court of the city of Rawson, in search of a response similar to the one they have obtained in Caleta Olivia and Río Gallegos, where the protections presented by the State Prosecutor’s Office of the Province They have managed to have the increases suspended.
