Without a new Budget, and extending one that has two years of discrepancies in real numbers, a legal loophole crossed with the Base Law gives full discretion to the Chief of Staff to manage the items for 2025.
In the In the United States there is a government closure or “shutdown” which implies the cessation of the provision of some public services when an agreement is not reached between the President and the Houses of Representatives and the Senate regarding the Budget for the following year. The Government, or various branches of it, are momentarily turned off. In Argentina, this figure does not exist in the National Constitution, but the administration of Javier Milei is threatening to launch a similar format, in the Argentine way.
In the recent history of the country, there have not been two years in a row where the National Budget was not approved, even with its drawings and reallocations that end up being a classic in inflationary contexts. There is a legal loophole. The suspension of the commission meeting and therefore of the opinion, in the countdown to the end of the ordinary sessions puts pressure on a difficult negotiation in which Milei himself disdains to reach an agreement. Therefore, the feint becomes a real threat to extend an already extended budget, something that never happened, but has its implications.
With this scenario, Article 27 of Law 24,156 of Financial Administration would apply which establishes that “if at the beginning of the financial year the general budget is not approved, the one that was in force the previous year will govern, with the following adjustments that the National Executive Branch must introduce in the budgets of the central administration and the agencies decentralized.” The problem is that, in reality, those numbers are from 2023, when an extension has already occurred. They are anything but real. Someone might question that the previous numbers cannot be used because they did not correspond to a current spending plan either.
But that intersects with article 56 of Law 25,725 sanctioned in the 2003 budget, which states that “in the event of the case provided for in article 27 of Law 24156 of Administration and Control Systems of the National Public Sector, , the Head of the Cabinet of Ministers to adapt the General Budget of the Nation, for the purposes of incorporating the budget items executed during the period in which the extension was in force. provided for in the aforementioned article, without exceeding the total credits approved by the Budget Law of the corresponding year.” Everything in the hands of Guillermo Francos.
The extension generates discretion in the management of the items that gives it powers under Article 100 of the National Constitution (exercising the general administration of the country) to carry out discretionary change of items. without monitoring of execution of the budget, assuming that the numbers will never correspond to current reality.
Crossing this with the Base Law and the delegated powers, The panorama is openly favorable for the Government to have as an ideal scenario that no Budget is ever approved and thus dominate all control of items at its sole discretion.. As the President already announced, without broadcast, the food chainsaw the items that were assigned directly. That would be the equivalent of a traditional “shutdown.”
Source: Ambito
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