Together with his peers from Entre Ríos, Gustavo Bordet and Santa Fe, Omar Perotti, the governor of Córdoba Juan Schiaretti reiterated his position to eliminate export withholdings.
In a message acknowledging the productive catastrophe caused by the drought, he stated: “They must be progressively lowered and charged to income tax until its final elimination.
Furthermore, he considered that “in a country that needs dollars, they should stop putting traps and obstacles to those who are capable of generating dollars”.
Perotti has admitted different opinions with other regions of the country, and in particular with Amba, with the federal capital. “The Central Region was, is and must be a clear expression of federalism. It is time for Argentina to understand and know that there is a productive engine that is located in this region“, He added.
The common concern of the three governors was the drought suffered by the region and the negative consequences for the productive sectors. Bordet stressed that “we have taken palliative measures from the provincial governments and have stood by our producers”.
In passing he pointed out: “It is time to rethink the production system of our region. We produce between the three provinces a large part of Argentina’s GDP and what you get in return is very little”.
The governors met in Córdoba for the pro tempore transfer of the Presidency of the Centro region, which passed from Schiaretti to Bordet.
That central region yesterday celebrated its first 25 years of integration. According to Schiaretti, it is a region that is the productive heart. “If there is something that characterizes it, it is that we are an expression of production and work, not the request for subsidies or benefits. What we want is to produce more and have more work for our people,” he said in what sounded like a dart at the Kirchnerist sector of the government.
The region it accounts for 25% of the country’s GDP, and its export sector contributes 38% of the total. The governors have insisted on the need to strengthen federalism and to re-discuss the distribution of fiscal resources.
Córdoba, Entre Ríos and Santa Fe add up 14 percent of the country’s land area and 20 percent of its population (8,400,000 inhabitants).
It has 8 ports with access to the sea, 55% of the national production of cereals, 70% of dairy production, 30% of cattle, 50% of pigs, 53% of poultry, 87 % of national biodiesel production and 58.7 percent of national bioethanol production.
It also has 120 industrial parks, 29 universities which translate into more than 560 thousand students, automobile plants and agricultural machinery.
Source: Clarin
