Rogelio Frigerio asked to “lower the decibels” in the confrontation between provinces and the government of Javier Milei

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The governor of Entre Ríos, Rogelio FrigerioI ordered this Thursday “lower the decibels” in the confrontation between provinces and the government of Javier Mileiwhile highlighting that it has been achieved “defuse bomb” which meant the debt inherited by the previous Peronist administration upon taking office.

In that sense, supported the president and maintained that he is “supporting the efforts” that the president “needs to transform” a country devastated by Kirchnerism and manage to balance public accounts, lower inflation and grow again, which is neither more nor less than the change that society asked for.”

“The first thing we have to do is lower the decibels and understand that there cannot be a contradiction between the objective of the National Government achieving the fiscal balance necessary to end the scourge of inflation and the defense of the interests of the province,” he insisted this Thursday during his opening speech to legislative sessions in the province.

Rogelio Frigerio during his opening speech to the province’s legislative sessions. Photo Government of Entre Ríos

Likewise, he was “convinced that there are meeting points between the needs of the National Government and the need of the provinces to have resources to provide quality services and improve the lives of their inhabitants.”

“I am willing to make the effort to find those diagonalsthose meeting places where the interest of both parties converges, which, ultimately, is the common interest of all Argentines,” prepared the governor-elect by Together for Change.

is another show of support for Mileishowed that “It makes no sense for the National Government to allocate funds to pay salaries of provincial public employees, nor that it deals with the subsidy of urban passenger transportation, nor that it does public works in the municipalities”, because that “the provinces and municipalities have to take care of.”

However, he previously asked to rediscuss the sharing of national taxes. “First we have to reorganize how resources are distributed in our country. “What’s up to everyone,” he said.

Every level of government has to be austere. and do an introspection exercise to see where to eliminate expenses that do not reach people. From our province, we make the effort with our expenses and our resources. And we are fighting all the fights we have to fight to defend our rights, without this implying promoting or supporting measures that mean definancing the Nation,” he stated.

Frigerio’s inheritance: from receiving a “defunded, indebted and without resources” province to “deactivating the bomb”

At another point in the speech, Frigerio was in charge of describing the inheritance he received when he became governor of Entre Ríos, succeeding the Peronist. Gustavo Bordet.

“We received a province defunded and in debt, without resourceswithout quality services and sin incentives to produce and grow. Years of passivity from the State put us in the group of provinces that are furthest from their potential,” he criticized his predecessor.

And he attacked harshly: “We found a missing 100 billion pesos to cover debts and a part of the salary bill. In terms of public works, we find a paralysis that affects thousands of construction workers and debts to contractors for more than 22 billion pesos, including some prosecuted“.

Gustavo Bordet and Rogelio Frigerio in a transition photo. The current governor was very harsh in his speech against the inheritance of his predecessor.

the silver that we find as soon as we assume It was barely enough to pay half of the monthly salary bill of the government,” he summarized about the inheritance.

In that context, he highlighted: “We managed to defuse the bomb and we could face the payment of the debt and prevent our province from falling into default. And, in parallel, we began negotiations with various multilateral financing organizations to obtain additional resources.”

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