Governor-elect Maximiliano Pullaro put on stage for the first time yesterday the cabinet with which he will begin his administration on December 10. With the same founding imprint with which the United to Change Santa Fe alliance was presented in that town in the Garay department on April 25, six and a half months later, and with all the electoral objectives achieved, it returned to that coastal enclave with the officials who will occupy the first line of management and a representative from each of the member parties of Unidos. It was a sort of two in one, since the meeting served as a presentation and first cabinet meeting.
Beyond the symbolic nature of the chosen location, the provincial cabinet met with its members but without access by the press. “We form a plural team but with a common objective: to work actively, every day, to meet the needs of the entire province and carry out the transformations that are needed,” noted Pullaro. “We know that these are difficult times, but we trust in people who have experience, capacity and character to carry out the projects we proposed,” he described to his team.
Although almost all the names had already transcended Publicly, there were expectations about joining the radical ministerial staff Fabian Bastia at the head of the Government and Public Innovation portfolio, replacing Senator Felipe Michlig, who at the last minute declined the position and will assume his seventh term as senator.
Bastía is a radical, from San Justo, and was going to be the head of the UCR Deputies bench. His move to the Executive leaves a free seat that will be assumed by Germán Scavuzzo, from Radicales Libres, an ally of Mayor Pablo Javkin.
José GoityMinister of Education.
Pablo OlivaresEconomy Minister.
Lisandro Enrico, Minister of Public Works.
Gustavo PucciniMinister of Development and Productive Infrastructure.
Susana RuedaMinister of Culture.
Silvia CiancioMinister of Health.
Roald BáscoloMinister of Labor, Employment and Social Security.
Enrique EstevezMinister of Environment and Climate Change.
Victoria TejedaMinister of Equality and Human Development.
Pablo CoccocioniMinister of Security and Justice.
They were also presented as State Prosecutor, Domingo Rondina; and the General Secretaries, Juan Cruz Candido; of Institutional Linkage, Julian Galdeano; of Cooperation, Christian Cunha; and Communication, Luis Persello. The only one absent due to agenda issues was the mayor of Santa Fe, Emilio Jatónwho will take charge of the Secretary of Human Rights.
Pullaro reserved names from his close circle for the first line of ministries. These are the cases of Puccini, a lifelong militancy friend and former collaborator of his when he was Minister of Security; Coccocioni also comes from that experience and in his case he managed the Penitentiary Service; Olivares, who was deputy to former minister Gonzalo Saglione (2015-2019), is the main economic reference of the Santa Fe UCR; Goity, former dean of Humanities at UNR; Enrico, political partner in the UCR and the General López department; Silvia Ciancio and Victoria Tejeda, both enrolled in the Evolution sector of the UCR commanded by Pullaro (the first is also from Elortondo, General López).
To that list we must add Bastía, who in the current Legislature was one of Pullaro’s supporters, as well as Juan Cruz Cándido, who will occupy one of the four secretaries that will report directly to the governor. Lesser known but very close to Pullaro is Daniel DiLenawho will be in charge of the Santa Fe Lottery, one of the key funds of the provincial State.
Outside the first ring of trust, there are the portfolios and secretaries that will command representatives of parties and spaces allied to Unidos para Cambiar Santa Fe. Roald Báscolo of the PRO larretista led by vice-governor Gisela Scaglia; Estévez from the socialism sector led by Clara García and Mónica Fein; Susana Rueda for Bonfattism; Julián Galdeano for the non-Pullarist UCR allied with Carolina Losada, and the president of the PRO, Cristian Cunha, for pure Macriism.
Looked at by geographical origin, the future cabinet has a clear predominance from the south of the province. Six of the eleven ministers are from Rosario (Rueda, Estévez, Goity) and the General López department (Enrico, Ciancio, Puccini), three from the center (Tejeda de Gálvez and Olivares and Coccocioni from Santa Fe) and two from the north (Bastía de San Justo and Báscolo de Reconquista). The four secretaries of State are from Rosario and the State Attorney from the provincial capital. It should be remembered that the governor is from Hughes although he has lived in Rosario for years, and the lieutenant governor is a native of Gálvez.
In terms of gender, it was not a determining variable when it came to assembly. In addition to Vice Scaglia, whom the governor empowered to have a role in different areas of the government, of the eleven ministries and four secretariats, only three cases will be handled by women (Health, Culture and Human Development).
