Alberto Fernández proposes that Buenos Aires cease to be the Argentine capital

The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, refloated the idea that Buenos Aires cease to be the capital of the country to become another city, in order to reduce the strong inequalities in territorial development.

“Every day I wonder if the capital city of Argentina would not have to be in a place other than Buenos Aires, and perhaps it would not have to come north to give it all the potential that a capital city generates in any country.”, Gave the president in a ceremony in the city of Monteros, in the northern province of Tucumán.

“Isn’t it about time that we start to take on these challenges and ask ourselves as a society how to do it?“Added Fernández during a cabinet meeting in the framework of the program”Alternate Capitals”, Which he has carried out since the beginning of his administration in order to hold meetings of the Executive outside of Buenos Aires.

It’s not the first time

This is not the first time that the idea of ​​moving the capital of Buenos Aires to another city has arisen.

For example, in 2014 the opposition deputy Alberto Asseff presented a bill to move the headquarters of the Executive to Río Cuarto, in the province of Córdoba, and the Parliament and the General Auditor of the Nation to the province of Santa Fe.

Months before, the then president of the Chamber of Deputies, the official Julián Domínguez -now Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries-, proposed moving the capital to Santiago del Estero.

But without a doubt, the most famous initiative took place in 1986, when the then president, Raúl Alfonsín, promoted a project to decentralize political and economic power, by which an attempt was made to move the capital to the southern city of Viedma (about 800 kilometers from Buenos Aires), an initiative that ultimately did not prosper.

“A fairer Argentina”

According to Alberto Fernández, the “federalism“It is not for your Government”a speech”, otherwise “Call for the integral development of Argentina”

“And we also know that there are asymmetries. It is clear that in the center of the country there is the wealth of the countryside that allows us to export everything we export and produce everything we produce, but in the rest of the country there are other riches that we must give the necessary pulse so that each province and place is make a strong place of Argentina, that is federalism, think the whole Argentina”, He remarked.

The Peronist president affirmed that with his program of “Alternate Capitals”Was promoted with the idea of“leave Buenos Aires, go and listen, go and see ”.

“Because first what we have to achieve is to put in the head of each Argentine and Argentine that we can make a fairer Argentina, with more balances, more equitable, that we are not condemned to this inequality that we live today, that we can reverse this and that. It depends on us”He added.