The dialoguist governors of the UCR, PRO and provincial parties They met by emergency zoom with the opposition bloc leaders of the Chamber of Deputies and they decided to ask Guillermo Francos and Luis “Toto” Caputo a negotiating table to agree on the Budget 2025 in extraordinary sessions.
Both from the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies in charge of Martin Menem as the National Executive Branch minimized this Wednesday, before the consultation of Scopethat Javier Milei They ruled out this possibility.
“Zero deficit or nothing, now the ball is on the side of the governors,” The national government warned of the possibility that negotiations would resume or that La Libertad Avanza would accept changes in the ruling.
Governors’ demands
Among the demands of the dialogue leaders to include in the Budget are:
– Financing of the deficit of the provincial provisional funds not transferred in accordance with the fiscal pacts. The Government, for now, does not move from the $254 million allocated.
– Financing of the compensation of the 2017 Fiscal Pact
– Eliminate the specific effects of the fuel tax whose funds, in the opinion of the governors, are underexecuted. They want them to participate
– Reduction of the contribution made by the provinces of the co-participating funds to finance the AFIP (now ARCA) – Co-participation of the undistributed Treasury Contributions (ATN)
In particular, the provincial leaders also complain against the paralysis of public works and have already raised, on several occasions, the need for the transfers scheduled with the Government to be included within the Budget 2025.
New clashes between the Nation and the provinces
Although Milei himself had taken charge of the negotiations, meeting separately with various groups of pro-dialogue leaders, the struggle became tense in recent days, especially after the ruling party decided to suspend the meeting of the Budget and Finance Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
That fact ended up triggering dialogue between the parties. Although the provinces were enthusiastic about the possibility of the Nation calling extraordinary elections, as revealed José Luis Espert that were evaluated in the Casa Rosada, the truth is that La Libertad Avanza (LLA) stepped on the accelerator again and lowered the price of that possibility.
In such a scenario, The governors will once again increase their volume to negotiate from a position of strength and unity. Prior to the virtual meeting, Martín Llaryora from Córdoba and Maximiliano Pullaro from Santa Fe shared an event with Minister Luis Caputo at the Palacio de Hacienda.
There they signed agreements to promote the financing of the biprovincial aqueduct.
Source: Ambito
