After noon on Thursday, the head of government of the City of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, gave a press conference in which he ensured that the way CABA worked with the Executive Branch of the Nation “broke.” In September, the national government took a parsult and unconstitutional step to get co-share funds from us and I clearly and very firmly gave our position and made the lawsuit in court. Two days later, he was sitting with the president of the nation coordinating efforts to confront the coronavirus. This form of work, yesterday, broke,” Rodriguez Larreta said, followed: “The national government, I don’t understand why, for the first time, you took action without consulting us. I repeat: (for) the measures taken yesterday, we were not consulted. A way of working broke. To me it is inexplicable; we were always willing to dialogue, to look for spaces of agreement. It is inesenterable that a president does not dialogue with a head of government or the rest of the governors.”
It is inexplicable that this was the case, especially when we had constant meetings to discuss measures to slow the case. A pandemic like this does not allow a President to do not coordinate actions with a head of government or governor. — Horacio Rodríguez Larreta ✋ (@horaciorlarreta)
April 15, 2021
Ensuring that, from the City Government, decisions are made “on the basis of evidence” and not “letting themselves be carried away by anecdotes, images or comments,” Horacio Rodríguez Larreta indicated that the national government is taking these steps because it “failed to comply with the vaccination plan and the number of vaccines it committed at the end of last year.” And now, because they couldn’t comply, they decided to change the strategy. Until last week, the purchase of vaccines was fully centralized in the national government. They passed this on to us countless times when we asked: all vaccines are bought and provided by the national government,” he continued.
Today, however, the chances of any jurisdiction getting vaccines in the short term are very slim, as laboratories have sold all their 2021 production for several months. I want to be clear: with vaccines we’re never going to do politics. — Horacio Rodríguez Larreta ✋ (@horaciorlarreta)
April 15, 2021
“We completely disagree with the decision to suspend face-to-face classes since Monday for two weeks with this epidemiological situation we have today,” the head of government said, after asserting his resounding rejection of the presence of the Armed Forces in CABA. After confirming that 15,000 boys dropped out of school or “are at risk of dropping out,” that in the primaries there are boys who “don’t distinguish between a letter and an image or a figure” and that, according to a study conducted with INECO and Unicef, more than 70% of minors in the City “showed signs of loneliness, depression, anxiety and anguish” and other statistical data, to state that “there are no health reasons” to justify the suspension of face-to-face classes, followed: “My conviction is that the boys and girls of the City of Buenos Aires, on Monday have to be in the classroom and that we will do everything we have at our fingertips to be able to make it so”. Subsequently, he asked the president of the nation, Alberto Fernández, to meet this afternoon to “do everything possible to ensure that on Monday the boys are in the classroom”. “And we will also file an amparo with the Supreme Court of Justice for urgent treatment. I have a responsibility to do everything in my power to guarantee the boys’ classes,” he said.
And we’re also going to file a protection with the Supreme Court. My responsibility is to do everything in our power to ensure face-to-face classes. We can’t mortgage the future of the boys. The most dangerous classrooms are closed classrooms. — Horacio Rodríguez Larreta ✋ (@horaciorlarreta)
April 15, 2021
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