The National Government announced the privatization of Public Company Aysain charge of the supply of drinking water and sanitation services in CABA and the Conurbano. This process includes the transfer of 90% of the shares to private capitals, through a national and international public tender, and an initial public offer, according to the presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni.
They argue that this decision seeks to solve infrastructure problems and the financial burden represented by the company for the State. However, this measure in no way can guarantee a good service to the community.
Adorni justified privatization by pointing out that, since its nationalization in 2006, AYSA required significant economic contributions by the State and that it showed a deterioration in its infrastructure, in addition to an increase in the workforce of employees and the delinquency of the users.
Even so, reports of Aysa’s own management contradict these statements, highlighting that In 2024 the company reached surplus thanks to an increase in rates, What the government uses as an argument to attract investors when presenting the company as a profitable investment.
It should be remembered that AYSA was created in 2006after the termination of the contract with the private company Aguas Argentinas, which managed these services since 1993 and accumulated complaints for breach of quality standards and lack of investment. During their state management, The company managed to considerably expand access to drinking water and sewage drainsbenefiting millions of people.
The official argument evokes the Speeches of the privatizations of the 90spromising modernization and efficiency in the service, although the history of privatization in the country contradict such expectations.
This decision is nothing more than One more maneuver in the looting of public heritage. Privatizations, far from benefiting the population, They enrich great foreign businessmen and capitalswhile most face higher and worse services.
The history of Aguas Argentinas is a clear example of how private management prioritizes profits over social welfare. The solution is not to deliver AYSA to the market, a fundamental company that manages an essential resource such as the drinking water for the well -being of the community, but in PRofundize your public nature under the control and management of your workers and users. Only in this way can an efficient and accessible service be guaranteed for all, prioritizing social needs on private interests.
The Privatization of AYSA is regimented in the Base Lawwhich was approved thanks to the key vote of the Peronist senator Edgardo Kueider, who had assumed his position for being part of the lists of the front of all, accompanying the ballot of Alberto Fernandez and Cristina Kirchner. After the vote of the law, it was learned that the now former senator had tried to cross the border with more than USD 200,000. Kueider’s affirmative vote was key for the vote to be defined in the Senate with the vote of the president of the Chamber and Vice, Victoria Villarruel.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
