At 1:14 pm on the hottest day of the year, 700,000 Argentine households They were affected by a power outage that complicated more than 30 neighborhoods in the City of Buenos Aires and several suburban districts.
Although the Government explained that the normalization would be staggered and that the service would return “progressively in the next two hours”, the light still does not appear in many Buenos Aires houses. Faced with this situation, other politicians manifested on social media. What did they say? .
Most of the voices that were raised, clearly, were from the opposition arc. Two hours after the cut, Maria Eugenia Vidal, a new national deputy for the City of Buenos Aires, wrote on her Twitter account: “When investment is not encouraged and problems are swept under the rug, these things happen. Today we are, again, in the face of power outages that become more and more frequent and last longer. We are living the consequences of the patches and the improvisation of Kirchnerism that all Argentines end up paying for “.
The answer to Vidal came from Mayra mendoza, Mayor of Quilmes: “You were governor with Macri and they authorized rates of more than 1000% that generated extraordinary profits for companies without reinvestment to improve service and also led families and businesses to go into debt to pay bills. You are distinguished by the courageous Vidal”.
The most surprising publication was that of the former president, Mauricio Macri, who published a black image on all his social networks at 4:33 p.m., a symbol of the lack of light. Quickly, Gabriela cerruti, spokesman for the Presidency, picked up the glove and replied to Macri: “Does @mauriciomacri remember the 2019 Father’s Day blackout? Almost all day, millions of Argentines without electricity. While citizens paid the 3000 percent increase in the rates that you had decreed. We are still waiting for explanations.” Cerruti’s publication was retweeted by the president himself, Alberto Fernández.
Another who also expressed himself was the former Minister of Economy, Alfonso Prat-Gay: “No electricity. No credit. No reservations. No shame. Just like in 2014-15: the only thing we can’t do is surprise ourselves.” Patricia bullrich, president of PRO, also said the same: “Again without electricity! This is one of the results of the subsidy festival K. President: we must recover the investment, because without investment we will run out of energy. The country needs a sustainable plan so that this stops happening year after year” . The deputy for the City of Buenos Aires, Mariana zuvicInstead, it was more poignant: “They stole even the light”.
The deputy also spoke Cristian Ritondo: “The power outages returned. To think that they were coming back to ‘be better'” Y Ricardo Lopez Murphy: “Once again, thousands of Argentines without electricity. Freezing rates and making services populist is not free. What is not paid for, does not work.”
Fernando Iglesias went further and directly made a survey on Twitter: “What name would you give to the 2022 power outages? Nestor Kirchner, General Perón, Cristina Capitana, I’m From Vido, I want to see “. Until Martin Tetaz, wrote “Cheap is expensive” and accompanied his tweet with a phrase from the former Minister of Energy, Juan Jose Aranguren: “Inflation in these two years was 100% and rates increased between 6 and 9%, there is no rate more expensive than running out of electricity service.”
