“Mariu dear, weren’t you proudly from Buenos Aires? On the sidelines, yesterday they announced a cut and today they announced a tender for 1000 million… for sending SMS!!!! “They kind of bullshit us, I say,” Graciana Peñafort posted on her social network account X. The Buenos Aires legislator pointed out against Maria Eugenia Vidal for your support to Jorge Macri in the adjustment of the Buenos Aires State.
On her social networks, the former Buenos Aires governor messaged: “The City of Buenos Aires shrinks the structure of the State and generates savings of more than $13,000 million to invest in education, security and health. Exactly, what we Buenos Aires people voted for in October 2023.” The PRO leader referred to the announcements by the Buenos Aires Head of Government regarding the reduction of the political structure of the Government, which includes modifying 19 entities, units and secretariats.
“We are determined to lower the costs of politics for every Buenos Aires citizen: reducing structures, merging organizations and, if necessary, eliminating. During our first year we eliminated 10% of political positions, we reduced the number of undersecretaries and general directorates, we reduced the fleet of cars, and we reduced the hiring of advisors and political staff by almost 20%, reducing 9,427 contracts. This represented a saving of $31,000 million,” Macri said during a meeting. press conference at the government headquarters.
“We never spend more than we earn. We are used to spending well, prudently and austerely. The City spends less than 10 percent of gross domestic product, the lowest in the country. For this reason, in 2024, we managed to reduce public spending by 8.3% (equivalent to $512 billion) and the measures we announced today will allow us to continue on that path. We analyze efficiencies and review area by area, ministry by ministry. We want to continue weeding. The duplication or overlap of roles and functions is a cost that we are going to eliminate,” highlighted the cousin of the founder of the PRO.
According to the Buenos Aires mayor, the institutional reform seeks to optimize the City’s resources and adapt the government structures to respond to current needs, and avoid the overlap or duplication of roles or functions. Specifically, 19 structures would be modified, of which 11 are eliminated, 4 are merged and 4 directories are reduced. The government measure is an axis of the so-called “Agenda 2025 Buenos Aires First”, which includes the elimination and reduction of taxes and procedures with benefits for merchants, monotributistas and retirees. Another change is the repeal of 13 special funds and trusts, which duplicated tasks among themselves and with other areas.
But, contradicting these statements by Jorge Macri, the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, in the official Buenos Aires bulletin, announced an award of almost one billion for the text message sending service (SMS) for government dissemination. According to the official statement, the company chosen in the contest was Amedia Group SRL granting him an amount of 999,600,000 pesos. The opinion was endorsed by the General Director of Strategic Planning of the State of Buenos Aires.
by RN
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