Volkswagen breaks sales records aspires sector lead: Volkswagen announced record annual sales on Tuesday, which could determine whether it retains its crown as the world's largest automaker.

The company based in Wolfsburg, Germany, said it had delivered 10.97 million vehicles in 2019. The figure was compared to 10.83 million in 2018, when Volkswagen advanced to the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi and Toyota alliance, although the alliance was slightly ahead when discounting trucks from total figures.

The alliance and Toyota planned to present their sales figures in the coming weeks. Toyota estimated in December that its 2019 total would be 10.72 million, which would place it behind Volkswagen.

Volkswagen breaks sales records aspires sector lead

General Motors held the title for more than seven decades before losing it to Toyota in 2008. GM is no longer eligible for first place, after selling its European division and closing other sections that lost money.

Volkswagen stressed that he did not see leading the market as a business objective, and instead focused on financial results. The scandal of diesel vehicles of the company, which rigged cars to make fun of the tests of polluting emissions, occurred during a campaign of the former general manager Martin Winterkorn to dethrone Toyota as a number one automaker in sales.

Following the 2015 scandal, the company has emphasized electrical models, while the industry tries to meet the toughest greenhouse gas targets.

Volkswagen was able to increase sales despite a reduction in the global market, which implies that its market share grew relative to its competitors. Sales grew driven by good results in its home market, Germany, as well as in the United States and Brazil, while sales fell in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Government will sign a treaty with La Rioja to unify policies

Jalil received Jorge Yoma, an opportunity in which both agreed on the importance of advancing an interprovincial agreement that allows the two provinces to work together on projects for the execution of road, productive and tourism works.

The governor Raúl Jalil received Jorge Yoma in his office to discuss an interprovincial agreement between Catamarca and La Rioja, which allows to unify public policies on road, productivity and tourism.

At the meeting, Yoma raised the possibility of creating a new interprovincial entity that advances with the formulation of works, infrastructure and services projects, also accompanying the generation of financing to execute them.

For his part, the Minister of Government, Jorge Moreno, explained that one of the first measures will be to agree on the points of a treaty between the two provincial states to define what tasks can be performed jointly between the two provinces.

In that sense, Yoma stressed that "La Rioja and Catamarca should not compete, but work together to regionalize activities and strengthen each other."

Yoma explained that, after having talked with the governor of La Rioja, Ricardo Quintela, one of the main points of the treaty that is being signed in the coming weeks, is the creation of a regional promotion agency for investments, planning and foreign trade with the objective of “generating better conditions for those who want to invest in our provinces and have more and better sources of genuine employment”.

The Bicentennial

On the other hand, Jalil reiterated that the objective of “advancing as soon as possible with the structural repairs of the Stadium” so that it becomes again the axis of high-level sports activities in the city and the province. With part of his cabinet, the head of state toured the facilities of the Bicentennial Stadium in order to begin the first review tasks to recover full use of the property.

Then, the president and mayor Gustavo Saadi toured the former house of Colonel José Daza with the national deputy Lucia Corpacci, to study the recovery projects and enhancement of space.