The four governors of Norte Grande who had dinner this Monday in Olivos with President Javier Milei returned to their provinces empty-handed. Strictly speaking, it had been made clear that the invitation was to thank the leaders for their support of the ruling party in Congress, so the head of state stuck to the script and did not promise anything. The provincial heads took the opportunity to submit only a handful of requests to which there were no firm responses either because they were told that “the fiscal balance is not touched.”
Scope reconstructed part of the content of the meal through two consulted sources who agreed that, first of all, the president thanked the support for the Bases Law and the vetoes of the retirement mobility and university financing laws. The votes of the national deputies who respond to the “dialogueists” Raul Jalil (Catamarca), Osvaldo Jaldo (Tucumán), Gustavo Saenz (Jump) and Hugo Passalacqua (Misiones), were key to achieving the objectives of the Casa Rosada. In some cases the support was with the presence of the parliamentarians in the room or absences that made it easier for the ruling party to tip the balance in its favor.
Milei was accompanied by his sister and General Secretary of the Presidency, Karina Milei; to the head of the Cabinet of Ministers, Guillermo Francos, and his vice-chief, Lisandro Catalán from Tucumán, who took the opportunity to anticipate that this Friday there will be an event of La Libertad Avanza in Tucumán. Between starter, main course, dessert, after-dinner meal and family photo, the governors spent around two and a half hours in Olivos. Unlike the “87 heroes” who were also in Olivos with the President, in September, the provincial leaders did not have to pay for what each one consumed. And another difference was that the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, was not among the diners.
The Head of State expanded, secondly, on some of the central objectives of his administration, such as that “the fiscal balance is not touched,” He asked them to deepen the “chainsaw” in the State’s expenses in the provinces and anticipated that everything they request will depend on the availability of resources that the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, has.. That is, there were no promises of fresh funds. Only the anticipation that if the Government meets its goals, it would reach the end of the year with inflation less than 3% or with that ceiling, and that would allow the entry of foreign capital for investment, plus the growth of bank loans. “There was no talk about job creation, consumption, the complicated situation that retirees are experiencing, or the social issue, which afflicts,” revealed one of the sources.
The good news that the “dialogue” leaders offered to the President is that, in general terms, they agreed with the 2025 Budget project and that there was a willingness to approve it. “It is not a good sign for the markets that a Head of State does not have an approved Budget,” Ámbito was told.
In the little margin that the governors had to pass the cap, they recalled that some paralyzed projects – which are up to 50% complete – It is due to the fact that the Nation has owed the payment of certificates since October of last year. And in light of this, a recalculation of the debts would be important to cancel the default and resume work. Another request was that the schedules of the works that the governors signed with Francos before the treatment of the Bases Law be incorporated into the Budget, an unfulfilled commitment. The succinct response they received was that everything will depend on the resources Caputo has.
Perhaps because there were no announcements, the governors avoided making official statements or assessments about the dinner. The only one who posted on his account in X was Governor Passalacqua, who pointed out that at the meal spoke about the university conflictalthough it facilitated the veto of the financing law for higher education institutions. “I asked the president, with total humility and respect, for the relevance of addressing the university issue with a different vision in order to discern the reality of the country’s large universities compared to those in the interior, such as the case of the National University of Misiones. , contemplating how difficult it is to be a student, not a teacher and a teacher on the margins of the country.
Launch event
Karina Milei and Catalán confirmed to Jaldo that this Friday, at 4:30 p.m., at the Central Córdoba club, the La Libertad Avanza match will be officially presented in Tucumán, with an event that its organizers intend to be important. That same Friday, in the morning, the President’s sister and Martín Menem, head of the Chamber of Deputies, will arrive in the province, and before the rally they will inaugurate the party headquarters, in Salta 100, near the center of the provincial capital.
It is expected that Karina, Menem, Catalán, Matías Sabaté, representative of LLA in Tucumán and José Macome, provincial legislator of LLA, will be on stage at the event. The question at this time is what place Fuerza Republicana, the party of legislator Ricardo Bussi that gave structure to the LLA, will occupy when the libertarians finish establishing themselves as a party and with the 2025 legislative elections on the horizon. It is noted that the vice chief of staff would head the list of candidates for national deputies for Tucumán.
Source: Ambito
