After the results of the 2022 Censusvarious referents of PRO came out to denounce an adulteration in the 2010 Census data. According to these questions, Kirchnerism would have adulterated the measurements so that The slaughter, the largest municipality in the country and where Peronism historically had an important electoral stronghold, received more co-participation funds to the detriment of other districts. Thanks to this, since 2012 La Matanza would have perceived 85 million extra pesos per period, which would equate to about 30,000 million more than he should have received.
According to the data, the Buenos Aires municipality went from 1,775,816 inhabitants in 2010 a 1,837,774 inhabitants in 2022: that is would have grown only 0.2% per year between the two years although, strikingly, it grew at the 3.9% yearly between 2001 and 2010. In addition, the projected population for the last census was 2,374,149 inhabitants: more than 500,000 people above the official data.
Various opposition voices and journalists critical of the national government came out to protest the alleged mishandling of funds on Twitter. “It is confirmed that the population of La Matanza in the 2010 Census was adulterated. It went from 1,775,816 in 2010 to 1,837,774 in 2022. The projected population for 2022 was 2,374,149. Now begins the path to recover resources that we lost the other municipalities for 12 years!”, tweeted the mayor of February 3rd, Diego Valenzuela.
“With data from #Census2022 It is clear that the numbers of La Matanza do not close. They lied to us with inflation and poverty for years. Did they also falsify the 2010 Census to give more money to a friendly municipality? Against this we fight: a band of looters of the State”; tweeted the deputy and president of the PRO block, Cristian Ritondo.
Also the deputy for the PRO and former governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Mary Eugenia Vidal, was expressed on the fact. “We confirm another robbery of Kirchnerism: in 2010 they inflated the population numbers in La Matanza so that the municipality receives more money from the co-participation for 11 years. A robbery of $34,000 million. A success for the leaders,” wrote Vidal.
The alleged anomalies in the data from La Matanza had already been pointed out by the Argentine researcher and PhD candidate from Princeton University, Federico Tiberti. “All possible open data, with as much detail as possible, all the time,” Tiberti said on his Twitter account, after the scandal became known.
The scandal becomes even more relevant if one thinks of the latest conflict between the national government and that of CABA over co-participating funds. In 2016, during the government of Mauricio Macri, The participation of CABA in the co-participating mass had been raised by means of a decree from 1.40 to 3.75 percent, as part of the financing for the transfer of the police to the Buenos Aires area.
But in 2020, a protest by Buenos Aires police put the province’s security in check, and to solve the economic conflict, the Nation decided to deduct the funds to the City and redirect them to the Province. The head of government Horacio Rodriguez Larreta sued the Nation before the Court, and it ruled in favor of the City. This was one of the reasons why the national government promoted the political trial to the Supreme Court of Justice, alleging an alleged favoritism by the Buenos Aires government.
by RN
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