The national deputy, Alfredo Cornejo, again referred to his controversial project of separating Mendoza from the rest of the country for an alleged differential treatment of the government to the province with respect to La Pampa. The discussion generated around the project of the Portezuelo del Viento hydroelectric plant, a mega work for which Mendoza has been bidding for several years but which the national government mediation was favorable to La Pampa.
When asked about whether there was any plan behind this independence idea, Cornejo replied: “What I said is that if they continued to discriminate against Mendoza as they were doing with the fiscal resources and with the obstacles that Alberto Fernández and the Minister of the Interior puts on Portezuelo, I think we should start thinking about it.”” We don’t like to separate from the country, we’re as Argentinian as anyone, but there’s a state that attacks us,” the UCR National Committee president clarified in radio statements.
Cornejo presented himself in recent weeks as one of the toughest critics to the national government and Alberto Fernández. This time, he retased on “a federalism of extortion that has returned.” In his view, the distribution of money among the proceeds is uneven and he gave as an example three: “There is no specific rule that says how they distribute it. Tucumán receives 6 billion, Mendoza 1900 and Santa Cruz 3 thousand”.
