Edward Bellibonileader of the Picket Unit (UP)accused emilio persico to support the 160 thousand casualties of the plan Enhance Work to “redirect” those funds to their cooperatives. According to him, “the objective of the virtual validation was to withdraw and save $4 billion per month. It had the intention of lowering social spending by the IMF and fattening social organizations loyal to the government.”
In dialogue with NEWS, Belliboni says that “the final signing of the agreements is held by Pérsico. Most of the cooperatives are from the Evita movement. We have presented projects for our cooperatives and they haven’t come out for 2 years. They come out to the oficialistas all the time. The one who is today in the INAES, who authorizes the operation of the cooperatives and reviews the balance sheets, He is an official who put Evita. The circuit closes for all sides”
NEWS reconstructed the circuit that recounts Belliboni, and communicated with Emilio Pérsico, Fernando Navarro and Daniel Menéndez, the main targets, but declined to respond to the accusation. Emilio Pérsico, leader of the movement Evita, is Secretary of Popular Economy of the Ministry of Social Development. Its function is to manage and register and cancel the plan Enhance Workwhich today has 1,383,279 beneficiaries. The total budget is $594,285,915,587117.2% higher than in 2022. It represents almost half of the ministerial budget.
drives the National Registry of Workers of the Popular Economy (ReNaTEP) with 3,457,669 registered. It allows access to work, social security and training programs, participation in marketing networks and access to non-bank credits. Pérsico is seconded by the leader of Somos-Barrios de Pie, Daniel Menéndez, undersecretary of Promotion of the Social Economy and Local Development.
Fernando “Chino” Navarro, leader of the Evita, is Secretary of Civil Society Relations and Community Development. Directs the State’s relationship with cooperatives and the articulation of the state, market and popular economy, having under its orbit the INAES (National Institute of Associations and Social Economy), which constitutes and supervises cooperatives and mutuals, main actors of the popular economy dependent on the UTEP, the domains of Evita and its associated organizations. It is also in charge of the El Estado en tu Barrio program, which brings State services and benefits to the entire country, such as procedures, health care, legal advice, training and even sports activities.
At the same time, INAES is directed by Alexandre Roig, also from the Evita movement. It constitutes and supervises cooperatives and mutuals, mostly from the popular economy. Projects are presented and agreements are granted to cooperatives that employ Potenciar beneficiaries. Its budget for 2023 is $9.39 billion, 48% higher than that of 2022.
Over this framework flies over the UTEP (Union of Workers of the Popular Economy) led by Esteban “Gringo” Castro and Gildo Onorato, both from Avoid. The union is completed by Daniel Menéndez, Juan Carlos Alderete, deputy of the FdT, Juan Grabois from the MTE and Dina Sánchez from the FPDS. It is estimated that there are about 8 million workers in the popular economy.
In the case at hand, that of cutting the 160,000 plans, the plot was complicated by the assumption of Massa, the resignation of Juan Zabaleta from the Ministry of Social Development and the entry of Tolosa Paz. A few days later, the results of the AFIP audit were known, with the detection of more than 250,000 irregularities, which involved the investigation and criminal complaint against the minister and Pérsico, by prosecutor Marijuán. Tolosa Paz, in response, ordered the re-registration through a virtual audit. To the heated climate, the complaint from the Civic Coalition was added. It was against Pérsico y Roig for a transfer of $160 million to the Federation of Work Cooperatives Evita LTDA.
There are 49 management units that employ beneficiaries of Potenciar. “Both officials are linked to the social organizations they benefit.” Also against Milagros Moya, from Evita and National Director of Compliance and Inspection of INAES. In addition, they detected at least 16 national officials who are part of Evita, SomosBarrios de Pie, MTE, CTEP and UTEP with incompatibilities when processing subsidies for the cooperatives of their organizations. The complaint is for conflict of interest of the Law of Ethics in the Exercise of Public Function.
And, after it rained, decree 728 arrived. It condenses all the claims of the pro-government movements that, since they did not give the numbers to become law, the president granted them by decree.
● Creates the Popular Economy Council
●Assigns to work cooperatives of the popular economy, 30% of the national public works up to $300,000,000.
●The number of holders of the Potenciar Trabajo cannot be increased, but the savings “that eventually occur will be allocated to the productive management units” While Menéndez made laudatory statements, “the decree is a way of turning the page on the plans and transform them into genuine work”, from the Piquetera Unit, the unions and construction chambers, the opposition and even from pro-government organizations, began to rain criticism.
They agree that the Council serves to further empower Persico and his allies; it does not clarify the controls, the background evaluation, if there will be a bidding process or how the awarding and selection criteria of the works will be. From the private sector it is argued that it is unfair competition, that it will lead to the ruin of construction SMEs and that it will not It specifies how the list of cooperatives that will be able to access public works will be organized. They also replace white workers with precarious ones. The end? in history, it is the cutback of the 160,000 plans and an institutional framework, as opaque as it is clear at the same time, in an election year that demands resources and loyalty.
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