The distance between the government of the province of Buenos Aires and Casa Rosada it spreads more and more. This time, the chief of staff, Guillermo Francos, He referred to the latest statements of the provincial leader, Axel Kicillofand separated itself from national responsibilities for district finances.
This Saturday, the governor expressed strong criticism of Casa Rosada’s position on Radio 10: “I am not going to allow them to bankrupt the province of Buenos Aires or as happened in other provinces; Milei’s logic is to attack and then ask them to sign“.
Given this, Francos considered that “If the province of Buenos Aires goes bankrupt, the government of the province goes bankrupt.” and he said that Kicillof manages “the same criterion that the Justicialist governments had: go into debt and let whoever comes pay“.
“That doesn’t help, what helps is to make adjustments and cuts, and organize the province’s numbers in a more reasonable way,” analyzed the Chief of Staff and added that “he wanted to be authorized to go into debt” in the discussion of Buenos Aires budget 2025.
In this framework, he stated that the province’s debt is “the result of a government that believed in that system, that getting into debt was the way.” In return, he assured that “In the four years of Together for Change, public debt increased by 61 billion dollars. During the government of President Milei, it was reduced by 29 billion dollars“.
Interviewed on Miter radio, Francos also referred to the 2025 legislative elections: “I don’t see a bad thing that we can have an agreement at the national level with Together for Change and La Libertad Avanzato the extent that it is reached and emerges from the conversations. And there, in the districts, we can have different positions.”
Axel Kicillof pointed out against Javier Milei: “He has particular viciousness in melting the province of Buenos Aires”
After failing to achieve the necessary consensus to approve the 2025 Budget in the province of Buenos Aires, the Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillof, took aim at President Javier Milei and assured that the top Argentine president intends attack the provinces in the context of adjustment and the proximity of next year’s elections. “I am not going to allow them to bankrupt the province of Buenos Aires or as happened in other provinces; Milei’s logic is to attack and then ask them to sign“.
“I am not going to enter into any extortion process and I am going to put myself in charge of the defense of the province of Buenos Aires,” stressed the highest provincial leader. In detail, last Friday the governor did not achieve consensus and the session in the legislature in which it was going to be discussed the 2025 Budget, the tax law and a debt project.
During an interview with Radio 10, the Buenos Aires governor directly aimed his criticism at Milei for the role that the opposition played in the fall of the session that was to vote on the 2025 budget for the province. According to the Peronist leader, the President seeks “merge the provinces” with a “particular viciousness” on the territory it leads.
“It was a very bad result for what we expected and we were working. More than 40 days ago we presented the tax and debt laws“, the governor detailed what happened in the Buenos Aires legislature last Friday and added: “We are not going to allow ourselves to be extorted nor are they going to bankrupt us“.
Source: Ambito
