The governor of Formosa, Gildo Insfranhas received this year $2,350 per person in co-participation. These resources represent 45% of the total average provincial income in the country, but in Formosa they are equivalent to 82%.
Despite the fact that the opponents of the Peronist who has governed Formosa for 29 years celebrated the Supreme Court ruling that declared indefinite reelection unconstitutional, Gildo Insfran He warned: “No porteño is going to tell us who is going to be our representative, the people of Formosa are going to choose.”
The data show how co-participation is the basis of the patronage system set up by the president; The country is “solidary” with that scheme. According to data from the Ministry of Economy this year, the consulting firm Idesa analyzes that 900 dollars per inhabitant per year were distributed among all provinces, but Formosa received 2,350 dollars per person.
These resources represent 45% of the total average provincial income in the country, but in Insfrán payments they are equivalent to 82%. That is, the province receives 2.6 times more co-participation than the average of the provinces.
“It is clear that the rest of the country is in solidarity with the people of Formosa. The problem is that this solidarity is channeled through a very perverse mechanism: co-participation that redistributes resources without conditions,” says Jorge Colina, director of Idesa.
In his opinion, the scheme “induces rulers to use public resources to remain in power. The effort that the rest of the country makes to give resources to Formosa “It is used by your government to finance perverse clientelistic practices.”
This month, at a housing delivery event, Insfrán regretted that “the star minister” of the national cabinet, Federico Sturzenegger, had dissolved the National Housing Secretariat. And he added: “What does this mean? That now those resources that came to the province through that organization are no longer coming.
It would be good to tell them that they should not keep those taxes that made up that housing fund, but rather send them to the provinces so that we can continue doing the missing works.” It also included the National Treasury Contributions (ATN) in the claim. He said: “They take out the co-participation of all the provinces, they kept more than 500 billion pesos of this year’s ATN fund and they did not distribute it. What do they do?”
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