The governor of Chubut, Ignacio Torres, stated that President Javier Milei's visit to the United States, accompanied by provincial leaders, shows the 'political maturity' of Argentina, which as a country today is gaining 'centrality' in the international context. 'It is a gesture of political maturity, where the provinces together with the nation agree to showcase all of Argentina's potential in hydrocarbons, gas, renewable energies, fishing, food security, logistics, mining, and viticulture,' affirmed Torres. Torres, who is in the United States with the presidential delegation, said in an interview with Radio Rivadavia that the country needs 'more institutional quality and more predictability' to achieve investments that today see Argentina as 'an opportunity.' 'We have to show that we are a serious country and that when we have to work together, the Nation and the provinces are together,' added Torres, as reported by Agencia Noticias Argentinas. He highlighted that today Argentina 'stopped being a country with oil to become an oil country' and emphasized that 'there is a situation, due to the Middle East conflict, in which the values of some 'commodities' are rising and place Argentina in a leading role.' Asked about the initiatives that the national government announced for this year, Torres opined that the 'electoral reform is not a priority,' and said that instead, progress must be made on other issues such as 'a tax reform and the pension issue.' He pointed out that 'it is not bad to have these discussions' of an electoral nature, but noted that 'there are issues that have to do with some urgent tax reforms, from the elimination of specific allocations to even a pension issue, which is a snowball that is going to end up crushing us all.' 'We also have to talk about fiscal federalism, because it is necessary to get off the back of work and recognize the effort of the provinces that are historically punished by an unfair tax matrix that generates asymmetries between the federal capital and the interior,' he concluded.
