Jaldo affirmed that Chubut “has to pay the debt” and said that Torres “tells half the truth”

2024-02-27 10:49:29

The governor of Tucumán, Osvaldo Jaldo, affirmed this Monday that his counterpart from Chubut, Ignacio Torres, “tells the half truth” regarding the conflict he maintains with the national government over the retention of co-participating funds, and pointed out that the Patagonian jurisdiction “ You have to pay the debt” just as you do with your district’s liabilities.

“The majority of the governors expressed solidarity with the governor of Chubut and the speaker did not do so. Every time we have to make an institutional decision we have to think that we are compromising our people,” Jaldo said in a press conference in which he explained why he did not adhere to the public support that other governors gave to Torres following his conflict with the Executive.

For Jaldo, “what the governor of Chubut claims is based on something where half the truth is told, such as talking regarding a discount of 13 billion pesos arbitrarily by the national government and that is not so like that.”

In this regard, he explained that the province of Chubut “is owing almost 130 billion pesos from the previous administration and has to pay the debt” and compared the situation with the Tucumán territory: “We owe 72 billion pesos and they deducted one quota of 5 billion.”

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Despite recognizing that Chubut’s debt with the national government was contracted during the previous administration of Governor Mariano Arcioni, Jaldo stressed that “those of us who take charge (of governing) take charge of the rights but also of the obligations.”

“Today, more than threats, we need collaboration among all, we need to lend a hand so that the national government does well, but also that the provinces do well,” Torres distanced himself from the announcement made last Friday to suspend the supply of gas and oil to the rest of the country.

Furthermore, he regretted that the Chubut conflict is “a problem for our country with institutional consequences and perhaps also party-political consequences” and expressed solidarity with “the Chubut brothers” for going through “very difficult economic and social situations.”

Meanwhile, Governor Torres appeared tonight in the Chubut legislature where he complained regarding differential treatment by the national government with his province with respect to Tucumán: “We are not only asking to refinance (the debt), we said we are going to exchange debt because we have royalty quota and we do not want to pay usurious rates.”

“Do you know which governor they gave it to? To the only governor who did not accompany this claim in Argentina, to the governor of Tucumán. If that is not discriminating, if that is not disciplining… I don’t understand it,” he questioned.

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