If the estimate of Mayor of Bahía Blanca, Federico Subielles, that the reconstruction of the city after the climatic catastrophe on Saturday will demand about $ 400,000 million is accurate, The Special Fund for National Treasury (ATN) contributions is in a position to face spending entirely.
This is raised in a report of Politikon Chaco. The consultant remembers that Last year the National Government did not use all the money in the fund, so it had a mass of important money.
The reconstruction of Bahía Blanca
“Before the climatic catastrophe that crosses the city of Bahía Blanca, The local government said that about $ 400,000 million would be needed for the reconstruction of the city, ”says the report.
Politikon Chaco considers that “the National Government guaranteed a shipment of $ 10,000 million That they would have completed last Monday, March 10, a marginal amount regarding the real financing needs of the municipality. ”
“However, the National Government could finance all of that reconstruction only using the non -distributed remnant of contributions from the National Treasury (ATN) of the year 2024 ”, The consultant says.
What are the ATN?
The contributions of the National Treasury (ATN) These are resources collected by the National State, from 1% of Coparticipable Mass and that are distributed to the provinces and municipalities for assistance in emergency situations and/or fiscal imbalances.
While historically the ATN have been used as a political tool, their very nature lies in being emergency or catastrophes assistance fundsas is the case of Bahía Blanca.
The study indicates that “In 2024, the ATN fund had a total of $ 679,898 million; However, its distribution was for just $ 49.8 billion: that is, only 7.3% of its composition is distributed. ”
“This leaves a remnant of $ 630,098 million that was not distributed and that the national treasure remained, being able to be a reassigned amount for this fiscal year in progress, ”says the report prepared by The economist Alejandro Pegoraro.
The work adds that “assuming that the National Government uses said remnant (which are funds that by definition belong to the whole of the provinces and not to the National Treasury per se) could not only finance the entire reconstruction of the city but also that It would even be left with a surplus of $ 230,098 million. ”
“That excess is even greater If the remaining balance of the first bimester of the year is added, which reaches $ 121,028 million, ”says the study.
Politikon Chaco recalls that “already in 2024, the national government argued that the distributed ATNs were exclusively to emergency situations declared by the provinces, whether climatic, igneous, water and economic. ”
Last year the governors had claimed President Javier Milei to distribute those accumulated funds in exchange for support for different laws.
“In that line, the head of Cabinet, Guillermo Francos He had declared to the media: ‘Since the beginning of our management, we went down by 91% in real terms transfers to the provinces and ended with the discretionary payments that were made through the contributions of the national treasure. This last mechanism was reserved only for emergencies. ”
Source: Ambito
