2023-09-27 22:51:27
The candidates for head of government of the city of Buenos Aires will have their first face to face this Wednesday. Jorge Macri (Together for Change), Leandro Santoro (Union for the Homeland), Ramiro Marra (Freedom Advances) and Vanina Biasi (Frente de Izquierda) will be the protagonists of an exchange around four thematic axes before October 22. It can be seen through the City Canal and the Public TV.
The candidates to succeed Horacio Rodríguez Larreta in the City administration will discuss their management proposals in a debate that will last 90 minutes, plus commercial breaks.
“The objective of this campaign is to enter the runoff,” Marra said at the beginning of his speech, with criticism of Kirchnerism.
Macri, for his part, spoke about the management that the PRO carried out in recent years and spoke of “two giants of management” in reference to Rodríguez Larreta and Mauricio Macri, who was also Head of the Buenos Aires Government. “We have to do things to change what the current government did,” Santoro began by saying in his first minute.
20.05- Block on infrastructure, urban management and urban code
“The debate is whether we want a city for negotiations,” said Santoro at the beginning of his presentation, after the presentations, pointing to Macri. “Jorge represents one model and I another. Examples so you can see what happened in recent years: sale of public lands and sale of real estate. They even sold the Ministry of Education building: 13,700 m2 they sold for 7 million dollars, in pesos and at an official exchange value to IRSA, a construction company closely linked to the government. The concessions are a scandal, already with the cranes and Costa Salguero, a 185,000 m2 property at a million-dollar fee that they are paying. And the urban code that is designed only for real estate speculation: in 2018 they sanctioned the code but in 2020 they already had exceptions that they ended up building and signing by the City Executive,” he explained.
“Leandro Santoro is still a Kirchnerist even if he doesn’t say it”, said the libertarian candidate. “They overmanaged the bikes and the fines, they forget the role that the state has to play. We have to change the direction of CABA,” he added.
“I do not share with Santoro, a gaze that is always averted in order to complicate the lives of the people of Buenos Aires. It is strange because they hate this city, but they choose it to live in. The question is: What have you done to recover the funds that the national government gave you? “He stole from this city in a partnership that manipulated us and continues to fail to comply with a Court ruling?”, responded the former mayor of VIcente López.
In turn, the national deputy expressed: “I thank you for recognizing that I am a citizen of Buenos Aires by law because until five minutes ago you were the mayor of Vicente López. Secondly, I want to tell people that I spoke out publicly against “how the issue of co-participation was handled. I think Macri gave it badly, Larreta accepted it badly and I think the national government got it wrong.”
19.00-How is the structure of the debate
The day repeats the structure carried out in previous editions that include an opening, a presentation, the thematic debate and a closing.
According to the Buenos Aires Electoral Management Institute, the dynamics will begin with a one-minute presentation by each participant and will be followed by four thematic blocks in which the candidates will address each axis under discussion.
Additionally, they may receive a question from one of their opponents and will have one minute to respond.
18.30-How the debate is organized
The debate will have four thematic blocks already designated: Autonomy, political system, Justice and security; Education, health, culture, human development, gender and diversity; Housing, environment and productive development; Infrastructure, urban management and urban code.
The journalists chosen to moderate will star in the introduction and prior explanation of the dynamics.
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