He Chief of Staff of the National Ministry of Labor, Robert Suckerman, he got on the electoral campaign as a pre-candidate for mayor of Rosario. In 2019, he was only one and a half points behind Pablo Javkin and is looking for a “rematch” for “to feel proud to be from Rosario again“.
“The first thing that mobilizes me is to see how the city is and how positions, projects and ordinances that one promoted for many years, more than 10, were not carried out. The same as other initiatives from other political sectors,” he commented.
“One sees a city that hurts, generates a lot of anguish. The biggest challenge is that. Of course, having lost the mayor’s office by a point and a half in 2019 makes us think that we can have the necessary accompaniment. If you are a political leader, you grew up in Rosario and trained, you have to fight to reverse the situation in the city,” he remarked.
“For me The best mayor the city had was Héctor Cavallero, who understood that in order to have a fairer city, it was necessary to invest and pay attention to what was happening in each neighborhood. Binner continued to strengthen a health system in the neighborhoods, but he said that Rosario did not have to be industrial, just services, and we saw how the companies left Rosario. Large taxpayers, resources, manpower, quality work were lost, and investment in the neighborhoods was later stopped. That created great inequality. I never wanted to fall into this of the center and the neighborhoods, there are different neighborhoods in each area where there are people who live very well and others who live very poorly. That also breeds violence,” she explained.
For the interviewee, the situation is reversed, first, stopping the drainage of companies that continue to leave Rosario, which does not have an Industrial Park. “That generates bigger problems for the city, we have to make an industrial policy, which does not mean putting a chimney next to the Stock Exchange.”
In second place, “we need to talk less and do more. Today the biggest problem in Rosario is security, the mayor and the municipality have to reverse the situation with investment and trained personnel, it is not all police and weapons. There are many tools, but Rosario never wanted to do it. It does not have a security secretariat, it has never invested, monitoring systems have not been implemented,” he pointed out against the current administration.
“If they are going to do things in favor of the city and the citizenry accompanies, there is no Council that can put up obstacles. Today the city does not have traffic inspectors, nor cameras, nor technologies. They steal meters, pencils, doorknobs, there are public orgies … There is no control.”
In relation to insecurity, Sukerman was clear and stressed that “the mayor does not have to go alone to fight drug trafficking, but that there are controls, that there are links between the forces. He also combat inequality, investment, urbanization, urban hygiene, public transport… It is not an issue that one can blame on the provincial or national government, beyond the fact that each one has their responsibility. The city is so low, there is no cultural activity, it is difficult to find places to eat. We have to feel the pride of being Rosario again.”
