«Defending the environment and those who risk their lives cannot wait,» posted the Santa Fe socialist legislator on his X social media account. Along with the written message, Paulón shared a video in which he recounts from a first-person perspective the direct consequences caused by a cut of more than 70% in the budget for fire prevention and management, and he demanded that the president include the bills declaring a fire emergency in the extraordinary sessions agenda. «I wrote a letter to the president. What is happening in Patagonia is a tragedy: 45 thousand hectares razed by fire, while the state withdraws and more than 70% of the budgets for preventing and fighting fires have been cut,» he denounced. «Meanwhile, those who defend what belongs to everyone, firefighters and volunteers, do so with low salaries, precarious contracts, and labor instability,» warned Paulón. The legislator from the Unidos inter-bloc called it «urgent that the bills to declare an environmental emergency and harsher penalties for the crime of ecocide be included in the extraordinary sessions that begin next February 1». «That depends on you, Mr. President. Deal with the environment,» the socialist deputy exhorted. Buenos Aires, January 28 (NA) – The national deputy for Provincias Unidas, Esteban Paulón, wrote a letter to President Javier Milei this Wednesday to ask him to «leave the musical shows for another time» and to urgently «deal with» the ecological disaster being left by the fires in Patagonia. «I wrote to the President because Patagonia is burning and the State is absent. The care of nature, the environment, and common goods is his responsibility».
