Fernández: “Argentina must not stop growing”
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President Alberto Fernández said on Tuesday that “Argentina must continue to grow” and affirmed that, despite being a country “hit” by “the pandemic, the debt, the war” and by “the nonsense written by the media”, the Government is “convinced” of what it is doing.
“They have hit us, the pandemic, the debt, the war, the nonsense they write in the media hits us every day”the head of state said this afternoon when he led an act at the Hurlingham party in Buenos Aires, but he remarked: “Nobody makes us give in, we are very convinced of what we are doing.”
Accompanied by the Minister of Public Works, Gabriel Katopodis; the president of AySA, Malena Galmarini; and the local mayor and former Minister of Social Development, Juan Zabaletathe president inaugurated a new module of a treatment plant and made a speech focused on the importance of the State in public works, job creation and economic stimulus.
“In this Argentina that has just passed those four years (of the Cambiemos government), which left us in debt, which experienced the pandemic, which, like everyone else, supports this harmful war, the truth is, we have a lot of strength, a lot of claw to get ahead“, he said and recounted: “This morning we spoke with Sergio (Massa) and he told him: we must not stop growth, we have to see how we order public accounts, but let’s not stop growth.”
In Hurlingham, the President starts up the new module of the sewage treatment plant for the treatment of sewage liquids.
In that same sense, and after praising the work of Katopodis and Galmarini, he said that “In the history of Argentina there were not 5,000 works in execution like at this moment” and recalled that in each of these places there are “jobs that are created.”
Along these lines, he recalled that when the Government took over, 70% of the works were “stopped” and there was “40 billion pesos in debt.” And he added that the construction union had 220 thousand active workers in 2019 and has multiplied them by two.
Continuing with the examples, the president pointed out that The gastronomic union “recovered the workers from before the pandemic and increased them by 70,000.”
The Treatment Plant benefits 450,000 users in the districts of Hurlingham, Ituzaingó, Morón, San Martín and Tres de Febrero.
Fernández, who this Monday announced the payment of a bonus in two installments for vulnerable sectors, dedicated a paragraph to praise former Minister Zabaleta and, referring to the “companions” of the popular economy, said: “Every day we work so that they continue working but, as far as possible, enter the formal economy and have the rights”.
Galmarini, for his part, pointed out that the module inaugurated this Tuesday was part of more than 100 sanitation works that “were stopped” When did you take over the company?
“Thanks to the political vocation of the government of Alberto and Cristina, this situation of enormous lack of financing in the water and sewage sector ceased to be the case and became one of the sectors with the most financing,” the official stressed.
In his turn, Zabaleta said that the administration exercised by the Frente de Todos (FdT) “came to invest in public and social policies.” “This is a government that, despite the difficulties, did not take away a single right from Argentines”added the former Minister of Social Development.
The Hurlingham Treatment Plant was put into operation with a new medium-load activated sludge module, with a nominal flow rate of 0.9 m³/s.
Currently, it receives sewage from 150,000 people in the region, which after the inauguration of the new module will increase to 450,000. It benefits the parties of Hurlingham, Ituzaingó, Morón, San Martín and Tres de Febrero.
The treatment of the liquids will go through a loading chamber, sand removal, primary decantation and a biological stage (aeration tanks and clarifiers), it was officially reported. From there, they are discharged into the Arroyo Morón which flows into the Reconquista River.
