Delivering a speech at the UIA annual gathering, Buenos Aires City Mayor vowed to maintain Miguel Galuccio at the front of YPF and said he would not eliminate subsidies if he gets to the presidency next year.
Addressing Argentina’s top industrial leaders meeting in the Buenos Aires province locality of Pilar to mark the 20th edition of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) annual gathering, Macri considered Galuccio a “rara avis.”
“(Miguel) Galuccio is a rara avis. He is a man who has an idea of where to go. He is a valuable element of this government. He is the antithesis of the improvised model (carried out) in Aerolíneas Argentinas, for instance. And we will evaluate if he should continue,” the head of the PRO party said.
In his message, Macri also said that he would not “end” subsidies, a decision he considered a “mistake.” “It would be a mistake to end with them. Every person who has it and needs it will keep on having it. But subsidies must not be something permanent, because that destroys people’s self-esteem.”
Still, it was the determination to revoke two government-sponsored bills – that have brought up controversy over the past weeks between Kirchnerite officials and opposition leaders -, that the mayor ratified during the UIA summit.
“That code must emerge from a great debate, without going against the general opinion. It is very important to try to modernise (the code) but it has to be done in some other way, so that it gets the support of the majority.” Mauricio Macri said alluding to the Criminal Procedural Code that, among its most controversial articles, it establishes that deportation is applicable in cases in which foreigners (independently of their migratory status) are apprehended while committing crimes, having a maximum possible sentence of three years in jail.
Furthermore, the two-time mayor of Argentina’s capital city considered the Anti-Hoarding Law a “monstrosity” as he called for “fair game rules.”
“That is the necessary way to investment. Not that law, approved so that one person owns the public power. It is a model that will not allow us to progress.”
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