The electoral campaign is already being lived in La Plata and the Deliberative Council was the scene this week of the first skirmish linked to that context and complicated last year’s accountabilityone of the most important files that this body deals with in the year.
The wrestling took place in the Finance Commission, which was scheduled to meet on Friday early in the morning to dispatch the file that had been sent by the mayor Julio Garro. But the meeting was never held due to a lack of a quorum and an error by the ruling party itself that the opposition did not let go.
Together they have five votes out of eight in this commission, however at the meeting, there were only four councilors: Lucas Lascours, Lucía Barbier and Julia Matheos, as well as the president of the commission, Carla Fernández. The one who was missing was the councilor of Radical Evolution, Manuela Forneris that, according to legislative sources, he had warned that he had a scheduled trip and was not going to be in the city.
The opposition councilors Paula Lambertini, Yanina Lamberti and Guillermo CaraFor their part, they denounced that Mayor Garro had submitted the file after the legal deadline of March 31, established by the Organic Law of Municipalities, had expired, and that he intended to commission it without having requested the corresponding extension from the Council. And, aware that the ruling party would not reach its own quorum, they decided to get up from the meeting that was going to take place with the presence of the Secretary of Economy, Horace Pradaand other municipal officials who would explain how they executed the spending last year.
The commission was suspended until further notice and the setback delayed the times of the ruling party, which planned to deal with it immediately. Now, against the clock, they are working on a new call for the Treasury that could be arranged for wednesdaywhere the request for an extension that the ruling party entered through article 14, which provides for the transfer to commission in an exceptional manner, without going through the premises, would be dealt with first.
The opposition and also the ruling party have, in turn, been waging their own internal battles in the face of those who will be elected by the mayor. Garro will go for his second re-election and is working to avoid having to face a STEP, despite the fact that the space led by Patricia Bullrich has already launched at least four applicants: the deputy Daniel Lipovetzkythe senator John Paul Allan; the Secretary of Special Projects, Mauro Palummo and the former councilor Julio Irurueta.
With this objective in mind, the mayor led a meeting on Thursday in which he brought together most of the sectors that make up Together for Change in La Plata and his eventual opponents participated, although no one from Allan’s sector.
