Deputies: the ruling presented the draft expropriation of Aerolineas

I TELAM The ruling of the Chamber of Deputies yesterday presented its draft expropriation of Aerolineas Argentinas and Austral proposed by these companies declare a "public utility" and that the House could approve next week on campus.

The project-holder signature block of the Front for Victory, Agustín Rossi and the owner of the joint commission of Privatisation Monitoring, Mariano West-state calls a "public utility and subject to expropriation actions" of both firms and of its subsidiaries.

Monitoring the joint commission of Privatisation had recommended to Congress last week, "the enactment of a law for the expropriation of Aerolineas Argentinas and Austral" and that the Executive take "necessary measures to ensure public service."

After presenting the project, the intention of ruling the advice is to move this week, at least in the Budget Committee, chaired by Gustavo Kirchner Marconatto-site and take it to the House on 3 December, according to sources Parliament.

West confirmed the presentation of the initiative and said that "not necessary" that the project passes the Transportation Committee, recalling that that body has already issued "about the definition of public service and the need to rescue" the two companies .

Transportation commission is chaired by Deputy Salta, Zulema Daher, who announced his departure days ago Front block to Victoria and joining the dissident group of MPs led by Felipe Sola-called 'Union Peronista'-to be chaired by Henry Thomas from Mendoza.

According to the text and to ensure continuity and security of service, maintenance of jobs and the safeguarding of assets, the Executive Branch "shall from the time of publication of the law all the rights that the actions expropriate give. "

The project is signed by Rossi and West, the parliamentary secretary of the ruling bloc, Patricia Fadel, the vice president of the House, Patricia Vaca Narvaja and Members of the Coalition block, Hugo Prieto Popular and Social Encounter, Ariel Basteiro, among others.

According to the foundation, the management of Interinvest SA "has not only been poor," but according to the Valuation Tribunal and the Auditor General's Office "less is irresponsible, since there have been commercial maneuvers designed to confuse heritage between enterprises of the majority shareholder, to the detriment of Aerolineas Argentinas. "

"We can not accept that air transport in Argentina remains in the hands of a company that operates with considerable disability", say MEPs, who say on the situation of "risk and uncertainty of their services in a context of bankruptcy."

Throughout the text, legislators referred to the report of the Court of Appraisals of the Nation, approved by the joint commission, which rejected Interinvest managers, and it cast a negative value of these companies 2.540.388.289 pesos as of July 1 , 2008.

Also, remember that, according to a report of the Auditor-General's Office from 1 July until 10 November "the national transfers has made 737 million dollars to ensure public service commercial air transportation passengers, mail and cargo. "

With the entrance of the project, the government seeks to complete the transfer process that began months ago when the state took over the running of the company through record deal, which then led to a transfer law enacted by Congress months ago .

The opposition, meanwhile, filed late on a personal project in that sense but poses limited only to an expropriation of assets, through a text signed by lawmakers of radicalism, PRO and socialism, which the ruling party considers "technically feasible".