The intimacy of the Malba rooms: López Murphy against the K militants, a governor who studied with Massa and more doubts about the rates

This Thursday morning was rainy and gray. Something cold. But the Seminar on Democracy and Development that he organized Clarione As part of his meetings at Malba he attracted a good number of guests, who took advantage of the meeting to exchange views on tariff increases, the concentrations in front of the Cristina Kirchner department and the friendship between the governor of Chubut Mariano Arcioni and Serge Mass.

With the presence of the governors of Patagonia, such as Arcioni, and Omar Gutiérrez, of Neuquén, in addition to the managers of YPF, Shell, Genneia, Total and other oil companies, the attention has long focused on Ricardo Lopez Murphy.

The deputy is Cristina Kirchner’s neighbor and everyone wanted to hear firsthand their “experiences” as they went out and into the area near the corner of Juncal and Uruguay, where the vice president’s fans have been demonstrating for a week. “They call me fat, gorilla, bulldog, old man …” the deputy told this newspaper, in a somewhat humorous tone.

Likewise, to avoid big problems, López Murphy usually avoids militants on a side street of Paraná, said the legislator, who appeared this Thursday in Malba accompanied by the former deputy Hugo Martini, Contact person of your space.

A few meters ahead Gaston Manespresident of the Radical Convention, he closed the clash with sectors of the party and above all with the head of the bloc in deputies, Mario Negri, for the request for impeachment of Alberto Fernández that his brother Facundo Manes, the popular neurologist, did not sign. among the candidates for the presidency of radicalism.

While Rodolfo Raul D’Onofriowho was president of River Plate, gave him advice on the matter “election campaign” to the journalist Fabián Domanwho is running for the presidency of Independiente, others wanted to know the details of the official D’Onofrio’s courtship with Zulemita Menem.

Five meters away, leaning against a sidewalk, Governor Arcioni, who was wearing crutches, assured those who approached him that his broken foot was due to an accident while playing with his daughter.

Arcioni, who leads the country’s second oil province, and today a little more serene after the trade union conflicts he faced, smiled when asked about his friendship with the Minister of Economy, Agriculture and Production, Sergio Massa, with whom he shared years of study in his university days.

The meeting of Clarione this Thursday focused on “Energy for development”. It coincided with the day, this September 1st, when the end of subsidies for electricity and gas tariffs came into effect. The priests of the energy sector commented in the corridors of the Malba museum on the extent of the upcoming bills.

Behind the scenes of the Seminar, officials, businessmen and some personalities also called for this meeting exchanged their concerns about the scope of the new measures in a country eager to export its potential, but it has huge infrastructure needs and a permanent change of rules. For this reason, the executives embraced the announcement of Pablo González, head of YPF, who anticipated the details of the investment to develop the export of LNG that, with the Petronas group, they will carry out in Argentina.

This would imply a initial outlay of US $ 10,000 million for port and gas pipeline infrastructures, for a project that could be developed in Río Negro or Bahía Blanca, province of Buenos Aires.

Between coffee and croissants, the energy distribution companies reiterated – with a tone of unease – that the elimination of subsidies to consumers could be understood as an adjustment for the population, but that for them it was not an improvement in profit because this which will be removed are the rounds of the Treasury at the cost of spawn.

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