The president said at the main ceremony for Flag Day in Rosario: "The flag is unity; it is respect for the other. It is that collective identity that many times they wanted to take away from us, but that every June 20th we come here to defend".
Lunes 30 de junio de 2025
The governor of the Province of Santa Fe, Maximiliano Pullaro, headed this Friday the central act for the Flag Day, in commemoration of the 205th anniversary of the passage to immortality of General Manuel Belgrano. The ceremony took place on the banks of the Paraná River, at the National Flag Monument, and was attended by the mayor of Rosario, Pablo Javkin; the vice-president of the Nation, Victoria Villarruel; and provincial and municipal authorities, security forces, students, neighbours and neighbours.
Restoring the city of Belgrano to its former glory
After the hoisting of the national flag on the main flagpole of the Monument, Governor Maximiliano Pullaro gave his main speech: "The people and the governments of the Nation, the province and the city are united under the same flag, which is above our ideological or partisan differences. The flag is unity, it is respect for the other. It is that collective identity that many times they wanted to take away from us, but that every June 20 we come here to defend," he said.
In another section, he highlighted the role of Rosario and its recovery. He pointed out that "this city was abandoned and forgotten by the previous national government. Today it is getting back on its feet, recovering its pride and self-esteem. We are in the first stage: pacification". And he assured that reconstruction is beginning, in which Rosario will be the axis of the Central Region and the Litoral Region: "the stage of great works is coming, that of the cultural, touristic and sporting Rosario, which is going to become the capital of the interior of the Argentine Republic".
The flag of federalism
Pullaro also stressed the need for a federal approach: "Whenever Buenos Aires wanted to silence the provinces, Brigadier Estanislao López was there to raise the voice of the interior". He added that "we are going to defend the countryside, and we are going to ask the national government to put an end to the damned withholding taxes. We are going to look after industry and we are going to ask for imports to be limited to look after our factories. Opening up to the world must be intelligent and strategic. We must defend education, public universities, take care of science and technology for development. The only way Argentina will get ahead is if it strengthens its productive system. It will not do so through speculation and financial capital. That is why Argentina, and this interior that pushes every day, needs infrastructure works, national roads in good conditions, energy, gas and electricity to have the power that industry needs. We need to discuss our railway system to streamline logistics in Argentina".
To this end, the governor said: "We have to return to López and we have to return to Belgrano, we have to return to this sovereign nation and this federal nation and demand that the resources that leave the interior every year can return to the works that we need. And he concluded with a call to defend the country and its values: "The flag is not lowered, it is defended. The homeland is not surrendered, it is built".
Rosario is back
Before the governor's speech, the mayor, Pablo Javkin, said that Rosario took on the legacy of the creator of the national flag: "Belgrano understood something that we also understand that although symbols are important, much more important is what is done with them".
In his speech, he referred to the most difficult times the city has gone through and assured that "now organised crime knows that in Rosario we are no longer afraid of them. The gangsters know that they will be pursued, that we will catch them and that they will end up in jail. That good always wins over evil".
Finally, he highlighted the city's present: "Rosario is back. The most beautiful and courageous city in the country is back. It has returned without fear, with peace restored, with order re-established, with the neighbourhoods full of works, with the health care that is always really taken care of here. Today, when they ask us if they can stay a few more days, when the children once again shout 'Yes, I promise', when artists and events fill our streets, we know that something has changed.
The ceremony was attended by the vice-governor of Santa Fe, Gisela Scaglia; the president of the provincial Chamber of Deputies, Clara García; the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the province, Roberto Falistocco; ministers and ministers of the provincial cabinet; legislators; the president of the Rosario City Council, María Eugenia Schmuck, among other authorities.