2023-12-16 02:15:00
The Peronist governors are torn between resistance to the adjustment as representatives of the sector that was left with 44% of the votes and the negotiation for the funds that Javier Milei already announced that they will be “reduced to a minimum” by installing the phrase “there is no money.” ”.
“We listen,” said a president at the end of a zoom meeting with the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, on Friday. Now they will evaluate together whether to attend the meeting in Rosada with Javier Milei next Tuesday since, apparently, there was no good news in this first exchange.
The uncertain and crisis scenario led days ago to a businessman from a supermarket chain telling Axel Kicillof: “The only thing you have to do is have your patacones ready.” His most trusted man, Carlos Bianco, made it public: the province can issue its currency. But the Buenos Aires governor and the other provincial heads of Unión por la Patria are waiting to see what President Milei is like and to what extent he is willing to cut the resources that correspond to them.
“The provinces are the most interested in turning things around,” said the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, regarding the discussion over the Income Tax. The truth is that the provincial leaders reluctantly accepted its elimination in the middle of the campaign, understanding that the measure might lead Massa to the presidency. At that time, a provincial chief anticipated what is happening today and privately told PERFIL: “If Massa wins it is not a problem, because he is going to give us the money through some other mechanism, but what do we do if Milei wins?” Faced with the cut in funds and discretionary transfers, the provincial heads find themselves at this first crossroads: negotiate or not the repeal of the law by which the tax on workers was eliminated.
For this reason, the challenge in the face of the need for resources is to stay united and negotiate together while some provincial leaders are already anticipating cuts. The governor of Santiago del Estero, Gerardo Zamora, recorded a seven-minute message in which he announced that he will decree an economic emergency by warning that the adjustment announcements by the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, “They will directly impact the provinces, especially when there is talk of cutting specific items.” He spoke of taking preventive measures even though the province has “fiscal balance, financial surplus and debt relief.” In this way, and for six months, it decided, among other things, to freeze vacancies and appointments in the public sector, to freeze official dissemination expenses, to suspend extraordinary allocations to municipalities and to put a stop to works that have not yet been completed. have been tendered.
The first to announce a cut in the provincial budget of more than 10% was Osvaldo Jaldo, who decided to reduce expenses by $220 billion. Raúl Jalil, from Catamarca, also did it this week.
For now, Axel Kicillof stopped sending the 2024 Budget and is waiting for more signals from the Casa Rosada to know how far the impact of the national adjustment will go. He is also preparing a request for greater debt than the one that the Legislature rejected weeks ago.
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