Buenos Aires, Mar 2 (NA) – Head of Government of Buenos Aires City, Jorge Macri, affirmed that the era of "chaos, disorder, and anything goes" in the city is over.
"Despite our differences, we should be united by the same goal, to work for and for the neighbors of the most beautiful city in the world. That is the magnitude of the debt we still owe. I came to have uncomfortable discussions because governing is deciding, and that is what we did to change the life of the City," he concluded.
Macri began by stating that there is no longer room for "violent minorities that break the rules of coexistence" in the city. "We don't want to live as in the worst of the conurbation. I am clear on this from the first day I took office and that's why I chose to defend that silent majority, respectful of the law, that felt powerless seeing July 9th cut off every day," he said.
In the same vein, he pointed out that street vendors, squatters, ranchos, and occupied houses are no longer part of the City thanks to his leadership, "despite the fact that this bothers and generates resistance from those who prefer that nothing changes." Likewise, he emphasized that since he took office, "the basic principles of coexistence have been recovered," and "private property is respected": "This does not exempt us from other difficult discussions that we are willing to have, without euphemisms or romanticism," he added.
"In these two years, I have exchanged more than 15,000 personal messages with neighbors, made countless calls, and we have had more than 350 meetings with the government team in each neighborhood of the city. In the same vein, he asked the Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, to do his part because "there is a law that obliges him to have rest areas," since 7 out of every 10 people on the street come from the Conurbano.
To conclude, he recalled that the National Government must comply with the payment of the coparticipation of a debt generated "by the Kirchnerist government" and that still remains with the porteños; likewise, he expressed that his administration "has supported and supports" Javier Milei "in his objective of ordering the macroeconomy and public accounts," however, that support "never made them back down from the claim for the funds that belong to the porteños."
"I must say that the work with the National Government today is constant and we are finding solutions month by month for the resources that must be paid to the city. And when the neighbors pose a concrete problem, we act. We listen to all their criticisms, proposals, ideas, because part of governing is that, to listen, review, and improve. Gentlemen legislators, today I bring you some of those demands that are not from a Government, but from thousands, millions of neighbors and that require a joint work between the legislature, the Executive Power, and also the Judicial Power. I will fight tirelessly against the enemies of a lifestyle, the lifestyle of the porteños, who want to live peacefully, with progress, and in peace," Macri concluded.
