Flavia Royón, a former Salta official, will take on the role of Energy Secretary. Photo of the government of Salta
Flavia Royonuntil this Sunday the Secretary of Mines and Energy of Salta will land in the National Government as Secretary of Energy replacing ultra-Kirchnerist Darío Martínez who eventually stepped aside.
The official statement comes from the cabinet of a historic ally of Sergio Massa, governor of Salta Gustavo Saenzwho accompanied him as Vice Presidential candidate in the formula with which he competed in the presidential elections of 2015.
Royon is Salta Secretary of Mines and Energy from May 2021. He also chairs the Provincial Economic and Social Council. Previously, she was director of Financing and Investment Promotion for the province. According to her Linkedin profile, she came from the private sector, as a consultant “in cattle, meat and export markets“.
The new national official is industrial engineering received at the National University of Salta, MBA from IAE Business School and has a degree in matters relating to mining production and complete management, business and agile methodologies.
From the massism they highlighted that Royón has promoted the design and articulation of the Provincial plan for sustainable mining development which promotes the planning, modernization, innovation and sustainability of the mining activity in that province.
In the energy sector it carries out projects a stimulate investment in exploration in the north-western basin; and the development of renewable energies such as solar and biofuels.
He is also the representative of the province before the national organizations for the creation of a Center for Nuclear Medicine in Salta.
After days of coming and going over a disputed area, Darío Martínez will finally leave the Secretary of Energy and with him the Undersecretary of Electricity Federico Basualdo.
With Royón they arrive at Energy santiago yanotticurrently Deputy Chairman of Cammesa (Managing Company of the Wholesale Electricity Market), replacing Basualdo.
It also adds up Cecilia Garibotti as Undersecretary for Planning. And another man from La Cámpora is transferred: Federico Bernal passes from parent company Enargas to Undersecretary for Hydrocarbons.
Who is Santiago Yanotti, the man of Manzur
Meanwhile, in replacement of Federico Basualdo, he will hire the lawyer Santiago Yanotti as Undersecretary for Electricity. Up to now Yanotti has been vice president of Cammesa (Managing Company of the Wholesale Electricity Market) where had arrived in June 2021 instead of Ariel Kogan, who was stepping down from his post to promote the bill to promote hydrocarbon investments.
Santiago Yanotti joins the Energy Secretariat. Photo Telam
Previously he had held the role of Undersecretary for Institutional Coordination of the Ministry of Energy, which in fact performed the function of virtual chief of staff of addiction.
Yanotti, who has had a passage for radicalism and comes from by Tucumánhas landed in Buenos Aires from the hand of Juan Manzur. They call it a technical framework.
Who is Federico Bernal, the hard ascended Kirchnerist
For his part, the ultra-Kirchnerist Federico Bernal will leave his post as controller of the National Gas Regulatory Body (ENARGAS), but will fall into another addiction: he will be the Undersecretary for Hydrocarbons.
Bernal, a graduate in Biochemistry from the University of Buenos Aires, is a militant historian of Kirchnerism who was able to defend the energy policy of the former Minister of Planning Julio De Vido, in whose ministry he worked as an adviser.
Before joining ENARGAS, he directed the so-called Observatory of Energy, Technologies and Infrastructures for Development (OETEC).
Federico Bernal will be the new Undersecretary for Hydrocarbons. Photo Rafael Mario Quinteros
Months before the change of government in 2015, he wrote a book with De Vido on energy policy K with a prologue by Cristina Kirchner. The book is titled “Néstor and Cristina Kirchner: planning and federalism in action” and its cover is illustrated with two penguins embracing. However, La Cámpora’s organic is not assumed.
On the OETEC website they detail that Bernal is a former researcher at the National University of Lanús and the Universidad del Salvador. He was also an advisor to the Energy and fuel commission of the National Congress from 2016 to 2019 and of the block of senators of the Front for Victory from 2018 to 2020.
He also gives an account of their forays as columnists in a dozen news outlets associated with Kirchnerism and their time on cable television on energy awareness programs. At the same time, a dozen books in which he participated as author or co-author are detailed.
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Source: Clarin
