Legislators from the Buenos Aires opposition questioned this Tuesday the Chief of Staff of the City of Buenos Aires, Felipe Miguel, for the expenses of local management in advertising and attributed an alleged irregular handling of public funds to the financing of the electoral campaign of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta for 2023.
The objections were raised during the special session of the Buenos Aires Legislature for the report on the Government’s march, during which they also pointed out some measures adopted, such as the prohibition of inclusive language in schools, and inquired about the position they will have in the future. with the social protests in the streets.
The legislator of the Frente de Todos (FdT) Juan Manuel Valdés specified that “in the first quarter” of the year “the Buenos Aires government spent $8,366,660 per day in the Advertising and Propaganda accountwhich represents $1,080 per inhabitant that is invested in Larreta’s presidential campaign”.
“The money invested in advertising is 129% greater than what was invested in school infrastructure”Juan Manuel Valdes
“For reference, the Province of Buenos Aires allocates $156 per person Y National Government $205“, he added and pointed out that “the money that is invested in advertising is 129% greater than what was invested in school infrastructure.”
Claudio Ferrenohead of the FdT bloc, opened his speech by asking the official if he was “the chief of staff or the campaign manager of Larreta”, after which he asked the Buenos Aires authorities “not to run over the City any more and stop listening deaf to the voices of the porteños against their projects”.
During his report, Miguel renewed the complaint of the local administration for the “removal” of the co-participation fundsfor which he called on legislators to “defend” the jurisdiction “from attacks by the central power.”
In this regard, the deputy Claudia Neira considered that “they continue to use the co-participation as an excuse for the things they do not do and the new taxes that they created in the City.”
“We propose to sit down at a table, with the numbers and without a story, so that the City receives what is fair, not one peso more or one peso less, because we are porteños, proud of our autonomy and deeply honest,” he remarked.
“They continue to use the co-participation as an excuse for the things they don’t do and the new taxes they created in the City”claudia neira
The Buenos Aires deputy for the PTS in the Left Front Unity Alejandrina Barry asked during the session about the ban on inclusive language in schools by the Ministry of Education.
“How are teachers going to refer to students with non-binary identity? The government is going to force teachers to deny their identity, to not be named, they have to remove students from the list”he asked using inclusive language.
? Wednesday 6/29 – 5 pm EDUCATIONAL MARCH
Together with secondary, tertiary and university students, teachers and the educational community we mobilized in a great march in repudiation of the educational policy of the Buenos Aires government, for a salary equal to the family basket, pic.twitter.com/1giveOh59o
– Ademys (@AdemysPrensa) June 27, 2022
Ramiro Maraof Libertad Avanza, asked if the local administration “is going to continue letting the criminals of the picketers continue to order traffic,” after noting that the official did not make any allusion to the issue of the street protests during your report.
And the deputy of the FdT Victoria Montenegrin he asked for explanations again, as he did during Miguel’s last visits to the Legislature, for the disappearance of Arshak Karanhayanthe City Police officer whose whereabouts have been unknown since February 2019.
