The national government has submitted to the Senate the list of candidates to form the board of directors of the National Regulatory Entity for Gas and Electricity (ENRGE), the new unified body that will concentrate the control and regulation of the energy sector.
All positions, according to reports, will fall to officials who, it has been learned, mostly come from the radical wing and who in recent years aligned with the libertarian space, several of them with simultaneous work experience in regulatory bodies and in areas dependent on the Ministry of Economy.
For the presidency of ENRGE, the Executive Branch proposed Néstor Marcelo Lamboglia, current intervener of the National Electricity Regulatory Entity (ENRE).
In this context, the debate is set to intensify, with criticisms centered on the independence of the new regulatory body, the coexistence between regulation and business ties, and the political weight that the Ministry of Economy will have in the management of the energy sector.
Within the scheme designed by the Government, it will be in charge of setting the pace of management of the new entity and articulating its operation with the Secretariat of Energy and the Ministry of Economy, in a role of close political trust.
The position of vice president would fall to Vicente Serra Marchese, president of the firm Intelligence Energy Solutions and with a past at ENRE and in technical areas linked to the refining and commercialization of fuels.
He currently serves as a technical regulatory advisor in the Secretariat of Energy, but his most recent background is having been a commercial and fuels manager at Central Puerto, one of the main electricity generators in the country, linked to businessman Nicolás Caputo, cousin of Minister of Economy Luis Caputo.
Serra is pointed out as one of the few members of the future board with experience in both the electricity and natural gas sectors, a condition that the officialdom considers key to the functioning of the unified body.
The proposed directors are Marcelo Nachón, Griselda Lambertini and Héctor Sergio Falzone. If their appointment is confirmed, Falzone would join the board of the body in charge of regulating companies in the same sector in which he recently worked, a point that is already generating criticism for possible conflicts of interest.
The selection process for the candidates formally began with the creation of a Selection Committee, made up of Osvaldo Ernesto Rolando, Santiago Urbiztondo and María Luján Crespo, who evaluated backgrounds and conducted personal interviews before elevating the shortlists to the Secretariat of Energy.
The official proposal seeks to bring the process of normalization of regulatory bodies to a close and is under legislative analysis, although it has already generated questions due to the political and business backgrounds of several of the applicants.
The initiative, signed by the Secretary of Energy María Carmen Tettamanti, contemplates the appointment of a president, a vice president and three directors.
Lamboglia is a lawyer, with a career in the electricity sector and a background as an Argentine legal advisor in the Yacyretá Binational Entity.
Nachón currently integrates the Advisory Council of Enargas and has a technical profile linked to the economy of hydrocarbons and project management in the private sector.
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It did attract attention, however, the exclusion of Carlos Casares, current intervener of Enargas since the beginning of Javier Milei's administration, who was not proposed to integrate the new board of directors.
The documentation has already been sent to the president of the Senate, Victoria Villarruel, to begin the legislative process that must ratify or reject the appointments.
Lambertini, for her part, is also part of the Advisory Council of Enargas, was a director of that body and maintains a strong specialization in regulation and energy transition.
The case of Falzone is the one that has raised the most questions in the political and business spheres.
