Re-elected Governor of the Salta province Juan Manuel Urtubey told media President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has congratulated him on Sunday’s victory.
In an interview with the C5N TV news channel, Urtubey said he was not going to fly to Buenos Aires City today to meet with the head of state as expected because the president has invited him to join her in Tuesday’s rally in the building of the ex ESMA Naval Mechanics School, that served as a detention center awhere many were illegally held prisoners during Argentina’s bloody 1976-1983 military dictatorship.
“She invited me to accompany her in the ESMA. I will see her tomorrow. I have been speaking with her, the people of Salta greet her; she is happy with this election and with the ratification of what we are doing together, because this (victory) is the result of what we have been doing together, the provincial government and the national government,” the governor said.
Tomorrow at 12, President Kirchner will be inaugurating a museum in the ESMA building.
“I want an Argentina with a little more of education and you will have me going around the country,” Urtubey said regarding the general elections to be held in October. “I want the Peronism to win October’s elections,” he said and played down the absence of Buenos Aires province Governor Daniel Scioli in yesterday’s celebrations.
“We have a friendship. We have been talking over the whole weekend. We both know about the accompaniment and the solidarity of Daniel (Scioli) in the province. He thought he did not need to be (here) to show something that is obvious to us. Karina (Rabolini, Scioli’s wife) was here till Saturday in the night.”
“Yes; definitely. I was willing to compete till last year, but institutional obligations forced to me to compete here (in Salta). Either we moved forward or we went back,” Juan Manuel Urtubey said regarding his own presidential expectations, vowing to compete in the 2019 elections.
“I want to compete in the future. I would like to live in a more equitable Argentina.”
Source: Buenos Aires Herald