The Tombolini Secretary of Commerce with Pablo Moyano / web
In the end, the inflation number did not pass the 100 percent barrier. But the 94.8 with which 2022 concluded did not generate relief in the Government despite the fact that some officials went out to rehearse a discreet celebration.
What is disturbing is that the downward curve that had been taking place since Sergio Massa took office in the Ministry of Economy stopped in December. The 6.3 percent in October, which had fallen to 4.9 percent in November, became 5.1 in the last month of the year. The warning lights came back on.
In this context, it emerged that the Economy is working on a new price agreement with businessmen. But in parallel, yesterday it emerged that the Secretary of Commerce made progress in an agreement with the Truckers union so that it joins the controls to which the Peronist mayors of the suburbs are already up, at least in the Province.
The information was not disseminated by the Casa Rosada, but by the union itself through an official statement and a video on its social networks in which unionists can be seen together with officials from the Commerce Secretariat led by Matías Tombolini. They are in a distribution center of wholesale companies and supermarkets.
The participation of the Truckers union in these controls generated some sparks. In the Commerce Secretariat they sought to distance themselves but they could not explain what union leaders were doing together with members of that organization in the distribution centers.
The Moyano union, on the other hand, was more forceful. “Together with officials from the National Secretariat of Commerce, they carry out the task of verifying compliance with the” Fair Prices “initiative,” he said.
“The implementation of ‘Fair Prices’ that the Government ordered allows all Argentines to access a basket of 1,900 products at frozen prices and another almost 20,000 basic necessities, which are sold in large supermarket chains throughout the country. ”, Pablo Moyano detailed in a document.
The also co-head of the CGT argued that it is “very important” that “the large distribution centers comply with the supply to guarantee that the products are on the gondolas”, for which Moyano and the Secretary of Commerce, Matías Tombolini, began ” a joint work to carry out controls”, he affirmed.
Moyano said that “the work is joint in order to carry out controls in the distribution centers of the Coto, Carrefour and Disco companies, among others, to guarantee the application of the program and take care of the purchasing power of all Argentines.”
Truckers are already checking that there is a stock of products in distribution centers
The trade unionist explained that these inspections are carried out jointly by the Logistics Branch of the union, in charge of Oscar Borda; inspectors of the Secretary of Commerce of the Nation; the Director of Inspections, Gustavo Gamito, and the Undersecretary of Actions for the Defense of Consumers, Lucila Bueti, concluded.
Borda has a controversial profile. He is pointed out as one of the main activists in the blockades of companies.
In the Secretary of Commerce they said that the union will only check the stock of products at the merchandise distribution points, for now in the Metropolitan Area.
The “Fair Prices” Plan has the political support of several Peronist mayors of the suburbs, who signed agreements with the Secretary of Internal Commerce to control with municipal inspectors, that the products included do not increase more than the 4 percent expected.
To upload them to the program, Minister Sergio Massa decided that the communes keep 25 percent of the value of the fines issued in case of non-compliance.
