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The mayor of La Paz, Iván Arias, supported this Friday the closure of the Administration of Airports and Auxiliary Services to Air Navigation (Aasana). The former minister of the sector also affirmed that the aeronautical entity “was in a terminal situation.”
In the opinion of the authority, this measure allows “to take the burden off the State and take away privileges” from officials of a loss-making company that caused an economic burden.
“Everything that is to take the weight off the State of companies that are not profitable, that generate burdens for the State and where at the end of the day it is Bolivians who have to pay, everything that is to remove privileges, I support,” he said. the mayor to the press, quotes AMN.
On Wednesday, the Government reported on the liquidation of Aasana and the creation of the new Bolivian Air Navigation and Airports (Naabol) on the doorstep of a strike of the now former Aasana officials.
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Arias said that Aasana was going through a “difficult” time and the measure of closing its activities is “positive.”
“Now of course, you have to see all the labor rights that you have to pay to the workers, because you have to pay pensions, you have to pay your AFPs, if that is planned by the minister (Montaño), well, they are neoliberal measures for a socialist government, which I personally believe are good for the country, ”added Arias.
The Minister of Public Works, Services and Housing, Édgar Montaño, has guaranteed the payment of benefits to former workers and opened the doors of the new entity. The leadership has rejected that proposal and denounced that the Government hired former DGAC employees.
Arias indicated that when he was a minister he had to “resort to extraordinary funds from the national government” to pay salaries, a measure that was also assumed by the current government when creating a revolving fund.
“These things grow like snowballs if you don’t cut them down,” said the mayor and former Minister of Works of the transitional government.
