Carlos Albisu's budget: The shielding of Lima gnocchi

The Persian market and political hypocrisy: the hidden truth in the Junta

In Salto, politics stopped being a public service to become a disgusting give and take where favors se pagan con la plata del contribuyente. La reciente y escandalosa aprobación del Carlos Albisu's budget in the Departmental Board is definitive proof that, when it comes to sharing the cake, ideological flags magically disappear and caste embraces each other.

The ruling party managed to carry out its government plan with 20 votes out of 31 councilors present. That's it, the basic math. What outrages and nauseates any ordinary citizen is how those numbers were obtained: 18 votes de la autodenominada Coalición Republicana y dos votos insólitos, entregados en bandeja de plata por ediles del Wide Front.

We are talking about Nilda Díaz López and Eduardo Varela Minutti, who is not a newcomer, but a former leader of the disastrous administration of former mayor Andrés Lime. Since when has the opposition signed a blank check to the ruling party without asking for anything in return? In the Uruguayan politics, and especially in Salta, no one stitches without a thread.

The “rebels” of the Broad Front and the shielding of accommodations

Varela Minutti's behavior is the perfect x-ray of the rot of the system. He voted in favor of the right's economic roadmap, yes, but he flatly refused to vote for the repeal of the controversial Article 38. Why is this technical detail so important? Because that article is what gives the force of departmental law to the collective agreements signed with the union.

This is where the pus of hypocrisy comes out. During the last two terms, the leftist government led by Andres Lima He dedicated himself to signing more than 20 agreements with the ADEOMS union. These documents were not written to improve the efficiency of the administration or to collect your money. trash in time, but to ensure the lifetime permanence of hundreds of militant officials put through the window.

Basically, Lima filled the offices public accommodations before leaving, and their former boss was in charge of shielding them in this key session. "I vote for your financial planning, but you won't touch my screwed gnocchi." That was the mafia message that was left floating in the room, visible to everyone and without anyone's face falling in shame.

The official role and the untouchable power of ADEOMS

But let's make no mistake and let's not leave anyone out of this fierce criticism. The ruling party is also a necessary accomplice of this institutional disaster. They came to power promising to sweep away cronyism, end structural waste, and put the house in order once and for all.

However, at the first opportunity, they negotiate with the opposition to secure five-year resources and keep the bureaucratic machinery functioning. The questioning of Lima's management sounds very nice, combative and heroic for the microphones of the press, but in reality, the administration remains an absolute hostage of the union mafia.

• Public employment untouchable: The officials who hitchhiked continue to collect from all of us.

• Uncontrolled spending: La nueva asignación de fondos asegura el dinero, pero no garantiza ninguna purga real de los sectores ineficientes.

• Total complicity: The coalition gets its financing, the opposition protects its bases, and the union continues to co-govern the department from the shadows.

Meanwhile, the citizen of Salta (the merchant who is suffocated with taxes, the worker who breaks the front axle of his car in the craters that are in the streets of the city) has to watch on television how they share the effort of his job.

A blank check paid by the taxpayer

Now the departmental government He goes out to celebrate saying that he has "the majority support" to begin executing the public policies already defined. The harsh reality is that this accounting tool is, in essence, the legal authorization to spend the silver foreign And in our department, that money seems chronically destined to maintain an obese, inoperative apparatus plagued by crossed favors.

Uruguay, much less the interior of the country, can no longer resist this level of cynicism. Demand transparency, suitability and efficiency should not be an unattainable utopia. We need real and committed managers, not political operators who play hide-and-seek in the hallways to see who gets the best deal without making a noise.

All this lamentable theater, full of false rebellions, empty speeches and pacts of silence, has only one loser: you, the taxpayer. While they uncork and hug each other in the Meeting, the working man from Salta continues financing the joke and paying, peso for peso, the budget Carlos Albisu.