The Chief of Staff highlighted the positive impact that the veto on university financing had on the markets and gave his opinion on possible alliances for 2025.
After going through a new political challenge at the parliamentary level, Guillermo Francos highlighted the management achievements and the positive financial impact that the ratification of the presidential veto university financing law. In addition, he proposed the new objectives that involve the administration of hospitals in the provinces and public spending.
In his first analysis, the Chief of Staff understood that the poverty rate (52.9% for the first half of 2024) “is the consequence of a process that culminated in December 2023 and, When Javier Milei’s government took measures, it began to decline”. “Today we are seeing a growing movement,” he interpreted and said that “the surprising thing is that we have been able to advance in this without having fallen into hyperinflation and without having entered into default with anyone.” At the same time, he stressed that “Public spending in 2023 was 40% of GDP” and predicted that “This year it is likely that we will reach 33%”.
It was then, and within the framework of his proposal to tariff public health for foreigners, that Guillermo Francos suggested the need for “The management of hospitals should be in the hands of the provinces“It makes no sense for the Nation to have them.” He also commented on the growing conflict in the Garrahan: “It is an important hospital for the country, because it marks a national policy and we will have to see what is the best way to manage it”.
Veto on university funding
Interviewed on radio Miter, Guillermo Francos referred to the session that ratified the Javier Milei’s veto of the university financing law. “When Congress passes a law that fiscally impacts the Nation, bonds immediately go down and country risk goes up. When the Government stands firm and vetoes, bonds rise and country risk falls; “That is to take into account the importance that the international economic world gives to how Argentina is taking care of its fiscal balance,” he analyzed.
Regarding the path that led to the veto, the official pointed out that “the Government had the capacity, with the support of the PRO and other independent deputies, to prevent insistence on the university financing law and that creates the image that The Government fights with great conviction and strength even in a parliamentary minority situation to maintain the fiscal order“.”I don’t think any government has done what this one did for public education.”, he concluded.
Elections 2025: possible alliance with the PRO
In his interpretation of the political map, the Chief of Staff recognized that “alone it would have cost us a lot” and valued the role of Mauricio Macriwhom he had criticized last week: “I think that Mauricio Macri was important at all timessince we took over the Government. With their differences. He has a personal relationship with the President and there are times when Macri raises differences and questions some parts of the administration. But I believe that President Macri agrees with Milei on the direction.”
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In that sense, he understood that “we would have to look for a coalition because we have a part of the common electorate”: “We have to look for agreements that normally in this type of coalitions are not simple because the political, personal, municipal and provincial interests come into play. But if we manage to clear that up a little and notice that we are at a pivotal moment for Argentina, and we all put the national interest above, we might be able to put together a good coalition to triumph in the midterm elections and not having to suffer as much in Congress as is happening to us in every legislative process now.”
Source: Ambito
