The brand-new Casa de las Infancias "María Elena Walsh" opened its doors in the former General Paz Cultural Center with speeches full of political symbolism. Passerini was critical of the national government and used the occasion to portray himself as a victim before a country demanding austerity. The inauguration was presented as a cultural milestone, but in practice, it doesn't provide concrete solutions to families' everyday problems.
During his speech, the mayor stated that "tenderness now has political value. Today, here, tenderness is a public policy." His words sought to create an epic narrative around a project that merely serves as a backdrop. Meanwhile, residents watch as their tax money is spent on spaces that have no real impact on the quality of their lives.
With a defiant tone, he sought to differentiate himself from Milei and stated: "Do you know what is the only toy children won't see here? A chainsaw." The message targeted the national public spending cut policy. The ironic thing is that Passerini needs to reject the chainsaw because he keeps an oversized municipality that devours resources daily.Passerini junto a Javier Pretto, viceintendente de la ciudad
An expensive toy for taxpayers
The Cordoban mayor is committed to inaugurating spaces that function more as political showcases than as real solutions for citizens. Far from prioritizing basic services, he decides to spend millions on a center that doesn't generate tangible improvements in residents' lives. His "more tenderness and less chainsaw" speech hides his inability (and lack of will) to manage responsibly.
Instead of cutting unnecessary spending, Passerini multiplies offices, departments, and sub-secretariats that no one knows what they exist for. Casa de las Infancias becomes another example of waste, disguised as social sensitivity to justify the permanence of paid political activism. Creativity and play are excuses to keep fattening a useless and costly municipal government.
While Milei promotes reducing spending, in Córdoba the mayor does the opposite: he creates symbolic spaces that solve nothing. With each inauguration, the possibility of an austere and efficient administration is postponed. The "tenderness" he proclaims is not enough to hide the weight of a structure that suffocates taxpayers.Casa de las Infancias “María Elena Walsh”
A giant municipality with no real practical value
The waste doesn't end at Casa de las Infancias: Córdoba keeps a mega-structure with nearly 400 political officials. The City Council approved in May an oversized scheme that includes ten secretariats, dozens of sub-secretariats, and hundreds of unnecessary departments. In this system, each area invents functions to justify its existence without delivering real results.
Elisa Caffaratti, a Radical councilwoman, questioned this situation and recalled that Córdoba has one official for every 25 employees. The figure reflects a municipality turned into a refuge for political activism rather than an administration at the service of citizens. Residents pay extremely high taxes to finance salaries that contribute nothing to daily life.
The paradox is clear: while the opening of a children's center that only serves as propaganda is celebrated with speeches, the city sinks into an expensive and unproductive scheme. Passerini rejects the chainsaw because he depends on maintaining an increasingly unsustainable political apparatus. What he sells as tenderness is, in reality, just more useless spending disguised as management.
