The Union for the Fatherland demands that the Minister of Economy personally appear before Congress to explain the budget project.
The first details of the debate are already known. 2025 Budget in Congress. It will be in October and the officials designated to defend the project in the initial sessions are Pablo Quirno (Secretary of Finance) and Carlos Guberman (Secretary of the Treasury). A Union for the Homeland These citations do not satisfy it and they ask for the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo.
Following a joint meeting between its top economic experts and its parliamentary representatives, The Peronist bloc in the House of Representatives issued a statement requesting urgent treatment -fearing that the postponements imply the search for agreements parallel to the legislative spaces- and they place the Minister of Economy in first place among the officials cited to appear at the Budget and Finance Committee.
The demands continued on social media this Friday. The head of the Union for the Homeland bloc of deputies, the Santa Fe native German Martinezwrote: “Minister Caputo travels 300 kilometers (on an official plane, clearly) to come to Rosario. But He doesn’t dare to walk 18 blocks to explain the Budget Law to Congress. Come on, Toto… Take the subway A, Congreso stop. There are 5 stations. You’ll be there in 10 minutes.” The porteña Paula Penacca replied to that post: “It must be that the ticket is unpayable“.
Another one who joined the chicanery was the Buenos Aires native Cecilia Moureauwho on the same night of the budget presentation echoed an image of the official broadcast, where Javier Milei criticizes the capital flight and the image immediately takes Caputo himself. “Capital flight and the fugitive. A picture is worth a thousand words”wrote the deputy.
The man from Río Negro also spoke about the destination of his assets. Rodolfo Tailhadewho noted that “The entire Caputo family has all the money outside, duly evaded and escaped“They are not going to bring it.” “There is money. They have it all outside,” he concluded.
Finally, the porteño Itaí Hagman He also mentioned the minister when referring to the tax scheme proposed by the Project: “The flat rate tax, fuel tax, profits, withholdings and VAT are rising. […] All the corporations that have special regimes to pay less taxes than the rest are quite calm: tax expenditures add up to 3.5% of GDP according to the Government. They are in there Judges who do not pay profits and importers like Caputo’s“.
Source: Ambito
