Silvina Batakis finishes outlining the team that will accompany her. REUTERS / Agustin Marcarian / file photo
Silvina Batakis’ landing at the Ministry of Economy was accompanied by a new team of officials to replace most of the group accompanying Martín Guzmán. Even if the assembly is managed in secret and has not yet been formalizedWhat is known at the moment is that Daniel Scioli and La Cámpora will have greater influence in the economic area.
According to official sources, Batakis was previously with the president at Casa Rosada to complete the definition of your management team. The meeting took place in the midst of news of the resignation of the Secretary of Internal Commerce, Guillermo Hang, a man from Guzmán charged with renewing the Care Prices program and who had not resigned from his post.
Hours later, Hang’s departure was finally confirmed and he spent only 44 days in his place. He arrived to replace the then outgoing Matías Kulfas. The man from Guzmán will leave in a few hours when he has finished relaunching the Care Prices program, which would be renewed with a 3% increase.
That position will be occupied by Martín Pollera, who already accompanies the minister in his daily tasks and maintains fluid contact with the business sector, governors and mayors. Like Batakis, Pollera graduated in Economics from the University of La Plata and was one of those rescued by the PJ of Buenos Aires by the leader of La Cámpora, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro, since he took over the leadership of the Ministry of Internal .
In his Twitter profile appears the photo of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, he defines himself “Economist. Maradonist. Peronist” and undersecretary for development policies with regional equity within. Previously he was Secretary of Industry in Florencio Varela, advisor to the National Ministry of Industry in the management of Débora Giorgi and coordinator of the Statistics Directorate of the Province of Buenos Aires, under the mandate of Scioli.
Pollera is already in talks with the private sector on behalf of Batakis. Entrepreneurs know him not only for his experience in public management, but also for his time at the PMI Observatory Foundation, a think tank chaired by the head of the European Chamber of Commerce, Giorgio Alliata di Montereale, with the support of Techint, l ‘UIA and leading companies in the industrial, financial, oil and automotive sectors.
Another of the candidates he plays is Martín Di Bella, current administrative secretary of the Senate of Buenos Aires, replacing Roberto Feletti. Di Bella graduated in Economics from La Plata and Together with Batakis, he was part of Scioli’s economic team in its managementwhere he held the direction of the ARBA, he was Undersecretary of Finance, Director of Planning and Municipal Management and Head of Consultants to the Undersecretary of Policy and Tax Coordination.
The La Plata economist was also a tax analyst for the Undersecretary of Finance of the Ministry of Economy of Buenos Aires and coordinator of the Provincial Information System of the National Ministry of Economy.
The Buenos Aires senator of the FPV Juan Manuel Pignocco He is also enrolled in the Batakis team. According to his Twitter account, he is a “militant of the National Justicialist Movement”. The Santa Fe-born camper moved to Buenos Aires province in 2011, where he was Jose Ottavis’s right-hand man, as administrative secretary of the provincial Senate and since 2015 a senator.
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Source: Clarin