Batakis will put 3 directors of its own at the helm of Banco Nación

With the support of the Casa Rosada and after a hard and scandalous internal struggle, the new head of Banco Nación, Silvina Batakis, has expected to occupy 3 places in the directory of the institution with the people who accompanied it in its ephemeral passage through the Ministry of Economy, assured a qualified official source.

Martín Di Bella (former Secretary of the Treasury), Martín Pollera (former Secretary of Internal Commerce) and José Ballesteros (former Legal and Administrative Secretary) will accompany you in the management, as announced yesterday Clarione exclusive. His plan is more ambitious and provides for the appointment of more than 20 people in strategic locations of the BNA.

Batakis thus consolidates a large part of its aspirations to manage the main Argentine public bank. As soon as he took over from Eduardo Hecker, the official asked the entire board of directors to make their resignations available, which resulted in an unusual attempt at rebellion. “When the leadership changes, the officials make their resignations available, this is a manual,” they reasoned close to him.

Most of the executives refused to leave their posts and just yesterday the government decided to fire Claudio Lozano, Federico Sánchez and Guillermo Wierzba. The Legal and Technical Secretariat, led by Vilma Ibarra, asked for his resignation via telephone calls. It was not a total triumph. Bataki’s goal he had to fill at least 4 of the 9 leadership positions of the organization.

The one who opposed the most resistance to abandoning the post was Lozano, the leader of the Popular Union, one of the factions that make up the Frente de Todos. The now former director he had expressed strong criticism of official economic policyL. Last Friday, he too was eliminated against Sergio Massa. Lozano was the last to resign. He wanted the president, Alberto Fernández, to ask him personally.

Perhaps precisely because of these episodes of quasi vaudeville, the Government published this Wednesday in the Official Gazette the acceptance of the resignations of the 3 directors separately and by means of two decrees. In the first, including a specific article for Sánchez and Wierzba: “The resigning officials are thanked for the valuable services provided in the performance of their duties.” Not even that in Lozano.

The truth is that Batakis has achieved much of his goal, but not all. His idea was to include Karina Angeletti (his former secretary for economic policies and virtual deputy minister) on the board of directors. For now it could not be. However, in the nation they boast of it Today the officer has two more directors than his predecessor. Hecker only had Sanchez.

Having reorganized the highest hierarchy of Banco Nación, Batakis aspires to locate 20 other people on your team within the entity and in the 6 companies related to the group: Insurance, Reinsurance, Retirement, Stock Exchange, Services and the Carlos Pellegrini fund.

This statement is still curious when one takes into account that one of the measures taken in his short time at the Palacio de Hacienda was to block the entry of new employees into public offices. In total, the nation has 17,500 employees. There may be more in the next few days.