Axel Kicillof described the 2025 Budget as a “disgrace”: “Milei’s only commitment is to pay Caputo’s debt”

The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof described the presentation of the 2025 Budget as a “disgrace” by the president Javier Milei on Sunday in Congress and warned that “the only commitment” which contemplates is “pay the debt that (Luis) Caputo took on” while he was an official in Mauricio Macri’s government.

“It was a fool’s errand, a scandal. He television blackout has a very real basis. There is no patience or tolerance to listen to nonsense and extravagances“, he pointed out Kicillof, in dialogue with Gustavo Sylvestre in Minute One.

The Buenos Aires governor considered that it is “a declaration of principles” by the head of state to have established a rule in the 2025 Budget whereby the surplus has to be equal to debt payments.

“The only item that is not discussed in the Milei era, that is not touched, is the payment of the debt. It is not very original either. Milei’s only commitment in the Budget is to pay the debt that Caputo took on“, added the Buenos Aires governor, referring to the current Minister of Economy.

Kicillof He warned that in the text presented by Milei “spending on espionage increases and is reduced for Science and Education more than it already fell in 2024 (Conicet -23%, INTA -17%) due to the freezing of the previous budget.”

Finally, the governor of Buenos Aires considered that Milei “arranges things according to her interests” and that all his statements they are looking for a “hit”.

“What he says is in his head, like when he talks to the dog that got away. The rest of us looked on in surprise and fear. The problem is not so much that he says it, but whether he believes it,” he concluded. Kicillof.

“We are facing the biggest electoral fraud that has ever happened in Argentina”

Earlier, the governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, He said this afternoon that the country is “in the face of the biggest electoral fraud that has ever happened in Argentina”while leading a plenary session of the Fifth Section, in Mar Chiquita.

Under the motto “The Province is organized. The country is not for sale,” the governor gave a speech before 5 thousand people in the sports center of the El Diego municipal park.

“We won the election by promising the people of Buenos Aires that our priorities would continue to be health, education, production and work. We can look our people in the eye and tell them that they gave us the mandate and the instruction to defend our province and its people, and that is what we are doing today together with all the mayors,” he explained.

He also questioned the “attack” that the national government is carrying out against the province of Buenos Aires: “Just as it attacks all the provinces, it does so with more ferocity with the province of Buenos Aires“He is doing this as revenge because the people of the province did not support him in the elections,” he said.