The Santa Fe Senate This Thursday he gave final sanction to the Budget 2025 sent by the governor Maximiliano Pullarowhich provides for total resources of $10.4 billion. The priorities of the approved initiative focus on Security, Education, Productive Infrastructure, Health and Public Works.
Specifically, the text contemplates a total of resources of $10,468,127.25 million (10.4 trillion pesos), growing with respect to the 2024 budget by 115%, while total expenses are estimated at $10,467,479.05 million, with the year presenting a technical balance of $648.2 million.
Final sanction to the Budget in Santa Fe
This week, in the Extraordinary Session No. 1 of Period No. 142, chaired by the lieutenant governor Gisela ScagliaMessage No. 5118 of the Executive Branch obtained definitive sanction, which corresponds to the General Budget of Expenses and Calculation of Resources corresponding to the Financial Year 2025.
In relation to said approval, the senator for the department of La Capital, Julio “Paco” Garibaldimaintained that “it is a law that establishes the vision of the province that we want to project, what are the priorities that the government addresses and how it fulfills the electoral contract,” and added that “it is a balanced budget, which is sanctioned in a context in which which the province of Santa Fe is once again called to defend the flags of federalism”.
For his part, the legislator for the Las Colonias department, Ruben Pirolastated on behalf of the Justicialist Bloc that “we support this project as a vote of confidence and in support of the Executive Branch, as we have done in other important projects that the Provincial Government has sent and that we understood that the Province needed.”
Both Senator Pirola and the senator for the Caseros department, Eduardo Rosconi, requested the Presidency to attach to the notification of approval of the 2025 Budget to the Executive Branch, the Communication projects of the Justicialist senators in which they request the inclusion of different works for the departments they represent in the Budget.
In this sense, the senator Rodrigo Borla He made himself available and proposed calling meetings with the Ministers of Government and Public Works to address the analysis of said requested works.
In addition, Message No. 5127 was added off the list, proposing to approve the Framework Collaboration Agreement between YPF SA and the Province of Santa Fe. For the same file, a preference for a session was voted.
At the time of paying tributes and demonstrations, the senator for the San Lorenzo department, Armando Traferriremembered “a great leader, companion, friend and person, the former communal president of San Jerónimo Sud, Marcelo Cisana, who recently died after battling a cruel illness.”
Traferri defined it as “one of the people who exalt public service and politics, because he understood that they are tools to improve people’s lives.” Subsequently, the senator for San Lorenzo requested a minute of silence to honor his memory.
Reform of the Constitution
Last week, the Santa Fe Legislature approved the need to reform the provincial Constitution, marking a milestone in the province, given that the Magna Carta had not been modified since the 60s.
After receiving the green light from both chambers, the governor Maximiliano Pullaro He said it was about “a historic day for the province of Santa Fe.”
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On his social networks, the radical president said: ”After 62 years, the Invincible constitution, our Magna Carta, can be reformed and adapted to a world that is constantly changing, and that presents us with challenges that require a different institutional framework. “No one will be above the law again.”
”Santa Fe must advance once and for all on the privileges of power, imposing clear limits. Promote criteria of fiscal responsibility, efficiency in the management of public companies, strengthen its education and health system, and have the tools that put a forceful brake on organized crime,” he added.
Source: Ambito
