The campaign discussion between Union for the Homeland and Together for Change has been concentrating for a few days on discussing about Argentinian airlines and if it should be privatized or not. on one side, Cristina Kirchner and sergio masa They delivered a fiery speech in defense of the flag carrier, with a subsequent reinforcement of a project by Máximo Kirchner so that it cannot be sold without going through Congress. of the other, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta again insisted that “You have to finance yourself” and set a term of one year. If it doesn’t happen, “no money will be sent”
The Buenos Aires head of government joined the discussion and although he did not express a clean position in favor of another privatization of the state company, he said that the deficit it has cannot be allowed. “Airlines have to be self-financing, and that has to happen in the first year. You have to raise the zero deficit of the airline, because if you are a public company there is no need to earn money, but to be balanced, ”he said.
Máximo Kirchner presented a project so that a possible privatization of Aerolíneas Argentinas passes through Congress
Rodríguez Larreta was on tour in various media this Tuesday. in the morning it is radio10 had insisted on that idea, while in the afternoon the project of max kirchner. For this reason, hours later, in an interview in Just One More Turn (TN) He insisted with his theory that the humble sectors subsidize the state company and that should not be allowed.
“Why does a humble family from the Conurbano subsidize Airlines when they buy milk. Por that the lady with the VAT on milk has to pay free tickets to relatives of Airlines“, he asked himself.
Later, Larreta clarified: “I’m not saying that you have to close or privatize, I’m saying that Argentines don’t have to subsidize“.
Eventually, he added that “if there is a particular route necessary for a geopolitical issue and the need to reach that place, in any case, that particular route is subsidized, but not the entire company.” Next, the journalist asked him if that implied the loss of jobs, for example, and he replied: “Airline managers will know how to ensure that the company has a balanced budget”.
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“I open El Palomar from day 1”
During the discussion, Larreta threw a cross at the former president Mauricio Macriwith whom he has an internal dispute because he supports the other pre-candidate for space president, patricia bullrich. He did it by defending the commercial air policy of his Government, which included the implementation of routes with lines low cost that operated from El Palomar.
“Let’s go to specific data: in the Macri government, more and cheaper flights were achieved. Yesterday I was in El Palomar, which lost 11,000 jobs. He closed that airport just because Macri had opened it“said the pre-candidate for president of Together for Change.
When asked what planes he had regarding that airport located in the western area of the Buenos Aires suburbs, Larreta did not hesitate: He said that “from day 1” he opened it, although later he said that works are necessary, since the current government dropped the space.
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Máximo Kirchner’s project
Hours before, as mentioned, Kirchner had presented a project in the Chamber of Deputies to prohibit the transfer of airlines without the approval of Congress.
The initiative establishes “the prohibition of the transfer of shares without the authorization of the National Congress voted by two thirds of its members“. He also criticizes the candidates of Together for Change and La Libertad Avanza for promoting the privatization of public companies.
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In the foundations of the project, Kirchner states that “although Law 26,466 declares the public utility of the shares of Aerolíneas Argentinas SA, did not provide for a mechanism that limits the transfer of those shares, so it is necessary to establish the scope of said utility and reflect one of the wills of the law – or the spirit or purpose”.
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