The head of the government of Buenos Aires, Jorge Macri, presented the candidates for the City Bank Board of Directors and appointed president Guillermo Laje, who had already held the position since 2019; while he also promoted as City Attorney General to the former minister and legislator Martin Ocampo.
The documents sent to Parliament will begin to be discussed in the legislative committees on Constitutional Affairs, Budget and Ethics Committee in the coming weeks, but are expected to be approved only when the ordinary session begins on March 1, 2024.
Both proposals are framed in the agreement reached between Macri and UCR president and former primary opponent, Martín Lousteauto accompany the management of Buenos Aires through the continuity of radical leaders in managerial positions and which are completed with the appointment of José Luis Giusti of the Audit and Diego Weck of the Housing Institute.
In the case of Banco Ciudad, the dossier informs deputies of the Executive’s proposal to nominate Laje as president, a man close to Lousteau with whom he also maintains a family connection and who will hold a second mandate if his nomination is voted on; Already Guillermo Romero, cited in Jorge Macri, as vice president.
In the meantime there are the four proposed members Delfina Rossi, Gastón Rossi, Pablo Videla and Ezequiel SaboR; while she was appointed as a trustee of the institution Paolo Villalbawho would also go for a second term.
According to the text presented to the Legislative, the appointments take place in accordance with the provisions of article 55 of the Constitution of Buenos Aires, which establishes that “the management of the bodies that make up the financial system is integrated upon proposal of the Executive Power with the agreement of the Legislative, which must be granted by an absolute majority.”
Secondly, Macri appointed Ocampo as head of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the City of Buenos Aires, the body responsible for ruling on the legality of administrative acts, defending assets and exercising legal representation. According to Law 1218, “the Attorney General is appointed by the Executive Branch with the agreement of the Legislature.” Ocampo was the city’s attorney general between 2013 and 2015, Buenos Aires’ security minister and deputy until December this year in the UCR-Evolución bloc.
Source: Clarin
