President Alberto Fernández was meeting tonight with mayors of the first and third electoral section of the province of Buenos Aires, to analyze “management issues,” official sources informed Télam.
The mayors and local authorities attending the meeting were Mariano Cascallares (Admiral Brown), Alejo Chobornoff (Avellaneda), Juan José Mussi (Berazategui), Fabián Cagliardi (Berisso), Gustavo Arrieta (Cañuelas), Mario Secco (Ensenada), Carlos Ramil ( Escobar), Alejandro Granados (Ezeiza), Andrés Watson (Florencio Varela), Juan Zabaleta (Hurlingham), Alberto Descalzo (Ituzaingó).
Mario Ishii (José C. Paz), Javier Osuna (Las Heras), Marina Lesci (Lomas de Zamora), Joaquín Gritondia (Marcos Paz), Mariel Fernández (Moreno), Lucas Ghi (Morón), Facundo Diz (Navarro) also attended. , Blanca Cantero (President Perón), Leonardo Angueira (Punta Indio), Juan Andreotti (San Fernando), Fernando Moreira (San Martín), Nicolás Mantegazza (San Vicente) and Julio Zamora (Tigre).
From the office of the presidential spokesperson they clarified to this agency that “There was no emergency meeting in Olivos”but that upon the return of the president of Tucumán there was a meeting “that was already on the agenda” with some mayors of the first and third sections.
The meeting in Olivos took place precisely after the president returned from that northern province, where this afternoon he led the inauguration ceremony of the Los Nogales Transformer Station, in the town of Tafi Viejo, accompanied by the chief of staff, Juan Manzur; the Secretary of Energy, Flavia Royon; and the governor and lieutenant governor of that province, Osvaldo Jaldo and Sergio Mansilla, respectively.
This noon, during his visit to Tucumán, Fernández had another work lunch at Manzur’s housein which, in addition to those mentioned, local officials participated, such as ministers, deputies, senators, legislators, mayors, state secretaries and councillors.
The meeting tonight in Olivos was the continuation of the one made on November 7 past, in the Eva Perón Room of Casa Rosada, between the head of state and mayors also of the first and third electoral section.
That meeting brought together the community leaders Jorge Ferraresi (Avellaneda), Federico Achaval (Pilar), Alberto Descalzo (Ituzaingó), Fernando Espinosa (La Matanza), Andrés Watson (Florencio Varela) and Juan Andreotti (San Fernando).
That time, the territorial leaders asked the President the need to maintain public works in the provinceand also analyzed the problems in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA), such as unemployment, poverty and inflation, in addition to dealing with other management issues.
Fernández had been accompanied that day by Manzur; the Deputy Chief of Staff, Juan Manuel Olmos; the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa; the Secretary of Knowledge Economy, Ariel Sujarchuk; and Vitobello.
For the Government of the province of Buenos Aires, the Chief of Staff, Martín Insaurralde; the owner of Grupo Provincia, Gustavo Menéndez; and the Buenos Aires legislator Mariano Cascallares.
Besides, during this summer the President had another two lunches with community chiefs.
January 11 He did it with mayors of the second electoral section, in the town of Los Cardales, in the Exaltación de la Cruz party.
There, Fernández called on the community chiefs “to continue working together” and remarked that “a year of growth” awaits them and that they are “on the right path” that they had proposed.
The mayors Achával participated in the lunch; Carlos Ramil (Escobar); Ricardo Alessandro (Jumping); Ramón Salazar (San Pedro); Diego Nanni (Exaltation of the Cross); and the interim of Zárate, Ariel Ríos; and from Columbus, Pablo Pino; the provincial legislator Carlos Puglelli.
Along with Fernández were Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero; the Minister of Public Works, Gabriel Katopodis; and that of Buenos Aires Health, Nicolás Kreplak; among others.
That lunch was held after the president inaugurated the Modular Hospital there, the first public health center in this municipality that will allow residents to receive emergency and primary care without having to travel to another city.
Earlier, on January 5, Fernández led a lunch at the Chapadmalal presidential residence with the mayors Lucas Ghi; (Morón), Roxana Sotelo (Monte Hermoso), Gustavo Barrera (Villa Gesell), Juan José Mussi (Berazategui), Mario Secco (Ensenada), Julio César Marini (Benito Juárez) and Gustavo Cocconi (Tapalqué).
On that occasion, the president was accompanied by Manzur, Cafiero, Katopodis, the Minister of Social Development, Victoria Tolosa Paz; and the Argentine ambassador in Brazil, Daniel Scioli.
That day, Fernández called on the mayors to make “a federal and more egalitarian country” and highlighted the premise of attending to “the needs” of “the people of Buenos Aires and all of Argentina.”
That lunch had taken place after the President announced, in an act held at the Saturnino Unzué Institute building in Mar del Plata, the extension of the Universal Child Allowance for children and adolescents without parental care.
