Chubut Governor Nacho Torres’ Response to Manuel Adorni: Defending Local Festivals and Economic Impact

2024-03-01 20:06:00
Nacho Torres’ response to Manuel Adorni

The governor of Chubut, Ignacio “Nacho” Torres, led this Friday the opening of ordinary sessions in the provincial Legislature, in the midst of the conflict with the management of Javier Milei over the transfers of funds. The PRO representative took the opportunity to respond to the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, who had questioned the budget used to hold local festivals. “We are talking regarding people who get up much earlier than Buenos Aires people,” responded the provincial leader.

“The vast majority of these inhabitants live in the fields and once a year, on the anniversary of each of those towns, they have the opportunity to meet once more as a community, they have the opportunity to celebrate their identity, their culture, the pride of being chubutenses, vindicate the work, vindicate the effort. And we are talking regarding people who get up much earlier than those Buenos Aires people who laugh at the names of our popular festivals. “I vindicate them,” Torres launched.

In that sense, the governor expressed: “I am deeply proud and I also want to tell you that it is the municipalities and the communes that make a fiscal effort to make these popular festivals happen. If the province can give you a hand, it will give you a hand because the fiscal cost of those parties, of those anniversaries, is not only zero, but it generates work.”

During the usual press conferences he holds, Manuel Adorni had detailed that “the funds transferred to the province of Chubut, in terms of co-participation in the month of February, were 21,971,000,000 pesos.”

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“During this same period, the province of Chubut held 25 festivals. When we talk regarding cutting superfluous expenses for an impoverished Argentina. Within these festivals that the province of Chubut organized, that collaborated or that contributed during the month of February, which I repeat, during the month that received practically 22 billion pesos of co-participation, it organized the National Steam Train Festival, the Festival Regional Tortilla al Rescoldo, the Dressage and Folklore Festival, the Regional Arrow Festival, the Provincial Horse Festival, among other popular local festivals,” he added.

Provincial deputy César Casal also joined the controversy, who came to the Legislature with the La Libertad Avanza list. The local leader accused the presidential spokesperson of “lying” and clarified that “popular festivals are organized by the communes and municipalities.” “There was no financing from the provincial government in any of them,” he stated.

“On the other hand, popular festivals in our province are key for hotels and gastronomy. They generate jobs and boost our regional economies. We deserve and support our popular festivals. Long live damn freedom,” he concluded.

The crossing occurs following the Justice ruled in favor of the government of Chubut in the controversy arising from the withholding of co-participating funds ordered by the national government. “We are faced with an unfair and intransigent position on the part of the defendant, added to a non-existent policy of absorption of consequences by the National State with respect to the Province of Chubut carried out by the automatic discount of co-participatory funds,” said the magistrate. regarding Milei’s government.

The magistrate ordered that the self-satisfactory measure promoted by the province be granted and order the cessation of the retention made by the Executive Branch in concept of reimbursements for loans agreed upon within the framework of the Trust Fund for Provincial Development.

In addition, Sastre urged the governments of Chubut and the Nation to arbitrate the necessary means to cancel or refinance the debt that the provincial State maintains with the Casa Rosada, as long as they do not involve the commitment of essential services for the people of Chubut. The magistrate did not accept the request of the governor of Chubut, Ignacio Torres, that the national state return the more than 13 billion pesos withheld last week.

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