Casa Rosada anticipated having consensus in Deputies to sanction its Budget project, but governors withdrew support.
A little more than an hour before the start of the last debate meeting of the Budget project 2025 in commissions Deputiesthe Government announced the suspension of the meeting where it hoped its proposal would obtain an opinion and called a conference -without questions- where José Luis Espertpresident of the Budget and Finance Commissionconfirmed the lack of agreements.
As Ámbito learned, both Martin Menem -holder of the Chamber of Deputies– as Espert They had a meeting this morning with Santiago Caputo in Pink House. This occurred simultaneously with Javier Milei and Luis Caputo are found in Brazil within the framework of the G20.
At the conference, José Luis Espert He began his intervention by assuring that Javier Milei “wants to make Argentina the freest country in the world” and for this he remarked that “the zero deficit “It is not an epiphany that appeared to us liberals who accompany the President, but it is the verification that with a deficit there is zero emission and thus there is no inflation.”
Then the deputy admitted that “We have not yet reached a common point that allows us to reach zero deficit“, but he stressed that “the will is to continue working to reach the necessary consensus to have a 2025 Budget.” “If in the coming weeks there is progress in this regard, the Executive Branch will evaluate the possibility of convening extraordinary“he added and concluded”with zero deficit everything, without zero deficit nothing“.
Budget 2025: governors’ claim
The suspension comes after the ultimatum given to him by the governors to subject their support for the official project to the acceptance of a series of points that would alleviate provincial finances. Among their demands were the payment of debt that the Nation has with the provinces for pension funds; the compensation of Fiscal Pact of 2017; co-participation of Contributions from the National Treasury (ATN) that were not distributed in 2024 along with a balance in next year’s shipments; reduction of district contributions to ARK; and elimination of fuel tax or an equitable distribution of funds.
Budget and Finance Commission
Deputies
Until last week, the leaders had incorporated the will of the deputies who respond to them (referenced with the PRO, the UCR and Federal Meeting) to the official project, pressured by the possibility that the government will postpone the Budget 2023which would imply a new year of discretions and pressures to execute games. In turn, if the DNU 846/2024 on free debt exchangeCasa Rosada has all the financial tools to obtain credits from international organizations.
Source: Ambito
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