2023-11-30 00:49:21
In a brief session and with few interventions, the Legislature generally approved this Wednesday the 2024 budget of Neuquénthe last of the management Omar Gutierrez and that will be executed by the incoming administration of Rolando Figueroa.
The project that foresees total resources of 2.06 billion pesos and expenses of 1.94 billion received 28 votes in favor and three once morest. At dawn, it is expected to be approved in particular, an instance for which some deputies raised objections to the text.
Following the calculations in the document, prepared by the current Minister of Economy Guillermo Pons and accompanied by the next ruling party, the government that will take office on December 10 It will have an estimated financial surplus of more than 118,000 million pesos.
Throughout the debate, which did not last more than an hour, some legislators expressed their intention to vote positively on the project in general, although they questioned specific articles in the text.
That was the case of the radical deputy Cesar Gasswho, although he justified his support in the need to “give tools to the elected governor,” harshly questioned article 46 of the project, which allows the use of resources from the Stabilization Fund, recently modified, to “pay debt.”
The deputies of the Left Front expressed themselves decidedly once morest it, who assured that the budget “his priorities have turned around«. The legislator Blanca Lopez critical in this line is the weight of external financing and that a return to the mechanism of “taking debt to pay debt” is critical.
The 2024 Budget in numbers
Regarding current expenses, central chapter of the project, a total of 1.61 billion pesos is estimatedof which 62% will be used to pay the salaries of provincial state personnel.
Meanwhile, 22% will go to current transfers, including co-participation to municipalities, 11% to goods and services, and the remaining 4% will be used to pay interest and debt expenses.
Furthermore, the planned expenditure for public works It is estimated at 272,611 million pesos. This will be a game that will take on particular importance next year, given the announcement by president-elect Javier Milei of bring infrastructure works financed by the national State to zero.
For its part, current income estimated at 2.03 billion pesos 41% will come from royalties and extraordinary production fees, 31% from provincial taxes, 21% from national taxes, and 7% from other resources.
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