Until last night, the negotiation had reached a successful conclusion. The libertarian legislators, who had the support of allies of the PRO related to the minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, agreed with the Buenos Aires ruling party to advance with work tables to analyze, point by point, the proposals reflected in the project.
The Buenos Aires legislator stated that it is a project “that provides for concrete and necessary reforms to transform the lives of Buenos Aires residents” and sent a message to the Macri government: “The City has to reduce the size of the local State and drastically reduce political spending.” ”.
In tune with the message promoted by the president Javier Milei from Nation, the president of the Buenos Aires bloc of Freedom Advances he stressed that The public sector “should only focus on issues of security, education, health, justice and public space, leaving the rest in the hands of those who know how to do it best: the private sector.” Furthermore, he called for promoting “a tax reform” that guarantees “the efficient use of resources.”
“From the Forces of Heaven, and in tune with the commitment assumed by the official bloc locally, we are going to work with all the deputies for a small State model, which takes care of every penny as if it were its own. For give freedom back to the people of Buenos Aireswe are going to bring President Milei’s proposal to the City. That is our mission,” concluded Pilar Ramírez.
The initiative, to which he had access Scope, is called “Bases to Strengthen the Decentralization, Debureaucratization and Optimization of the resources of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.” Like its approved counterpart Congress, They propose a reform of the State – with a reduction of up to half of positions -, privatization of public companies, concessions, availability of workers not relocated due to cuts, among others.
The Buenos Aires Government assured last night that they have been working for several months on different projects and measures to improve the efficiency of the State. They claim that they reduced “the number of contracts and the fleet of official cars” and the state structure: “We went from having 13 secretaries to 8. We eliminated 15 undersecretaries and 35 general directorates.”
Despite this, the libertarian bloc denounces that there are currently too many charges. And they focus on some 2,500 political officials, including ministers, secretaries, directors, deputy directors who receive “millionaire salaries”.
The libertarian proposal also generated resistance in Union for the Homeland. “With the budget in hand, explain what they call a “small state”,” the UP Buenos Aires representative asked. Claudia Neira and added: “20.1% of the budget is Education, 16.5% is Health, 16.5% is Security, 9.2% is Social Promotion. Just those 4 functions add up to 60%. ¿Will they want to privatize Banco Ciudad, the Subways or the Highways?”.
Bases Law in CABA: adjustment in the State, privatizations, local RIGI and charging health care to non-residents
The initiative is promoted from the highest level of the national government since it had the approval of the President’s sister. In addition, it has support from PRO legislators, Juan Pablo Arenaza, Silvia Imas and María González Estevarena, who have a direct line with the minister Bullrich.
The regulations propose a strong restructuring and reorganization of government areas “to guarantee reasonableness in the public spending relationship”. The charges could be reduced by up to half, maintaining only those that are “necessary”.
Furthermore, it promotes a non-resident charging system in the case of use of services health, when “These are not emergency situations”. “For cases in which the aforementioned situations are not verified, the enforcement authority must implement a compensation system of the expenses incurred by the health system City which should be assumed by the recipient of the provision of health services,” says the project.
In the same way that progress was made in the national Congress, it orders to declare “subject to privatization” to companies and societies “wholly owned” either “majority” of the City governmentamong which were Urban Highways Public Limited Company (AUSA), Buenos Aires City Lottery and Buenos Aires SE Subways.
The process of divestment of companies, according to the project, must be developed “in accordance with the principles of transparency, competition, maximum competition, open government, efficiency and effectiveness in the use of resources, publicity and dissemination,” according to the deadlines stipulated in a possible regulation of the law.
Furthermore, as in the National regulations, the Buenos Aires version of the project promotes a local RIGI called “Incentive Regime in Districts of the City of Buenos Aires”focused on expanding “tax and promotion benefits” for the Technological and Audiovisual Districts. It also incorporated changes to the Arts District, the Design District and the Sports District.
“The regulations propose to include new activities related to emerging sectors, like the renewable energies, ensuring that the City continues to position itself as a reference center in technology and production audiovisual at a global level,” indicated the text. As the project clarified, its incorporation into the new regimes “will not be incompatible with the Incentive Regime for Large Investors.”
Thus, the LLA block, despite not having the necessary votes to approve the regulations, seeks set the agenda for the local ruling partyfacing the legislative elections of 2025, where they will bet on increasing their presence in the Chamber. As in Nation, the focus will be on discussing the size and role of the State, tax pressure, the future of public companies and the health system.
Regarding this last point, the United Republicans deputy, Yamil Santoro, of good dialogue with the ruling party, presented a bill in the Legislature with which he points to “regulate medical care for tourists and non-resident foreigners” in the City. The proposal establishes that foreigners without Buenos Aires residency must have health insurance to access the service. If you do not have it, you will be charged for its use. “The health system must be sustainable, and that requires that resources be used efficiently and fairly,” Santoro said.
Source: Ambito
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